Spelling Switch!

Happy Monday Fantastic First Grade Families!

As we finish up Spelling Principles and move into more sorting during Spelling/Word Work, we will only be sending home Weekly Snap Words. Keep an eye out for your child's FIVE Snap Words every Monday!

COOKIE DOUGH FUNDRAISER STARTS TODAY! You can find all information regarding our Cookie Dough Fundraiser in your child's backpack.

Don't forget to send in BOX TOPS! We are having a school-wide competition - the grade level with the most box tops earns an EXTRA RECESS!

FRIDAY FACTS - This Friday, October 16, is a HALF DAY. School will be dismissed at 11:50. Please send a note if your child's dismissal routine will be different than normal. We will be taking a school picture on the field on Friday, so please send your child to school in their GREEN IGNITE, INNOVATE, INSPIRE shirt.

Have a great night!

Friday Fun!

We had a SUPER fun Friday in Room 21! Check us out:

We used the laptop cart for the FIRST TIME EVER! We logged on with a username and password, opened an Internet browser, and navigated our way to www.jmathpage.com! We did most of this by ourselves with just a little help from friends and Miss Greteman. It was a very successful laptop day for us!

We also had our grade level WRITING CELEBRATION! After working hard throughout our entire Small Moment Unit, we just HAD to show off our pieces. We traveled around to other first grade rooms, read our friends' writing, and left them comments about their writing!

Marvelous Monday!

Happy Monday Fantastic First Grade Families! I hope everyone had a great weekend! Here's what we're up to in Room 21 this week:

Reading Envelopes will start coming home this week! Please start checking your child's backpack for a reading envelope 3-5 times a week. Which days it comes home will depend on which days your child's reading group meets with either myself or Mrs. Marting. The reading envelope looks like this:

We are wrapping up our Small Moment Unit in Writer's Workshop this week! Today we chose our FAVORITE small moment story from our folder and met with our writing buddy to start revising. We will revise using everything we've learned, edit with a checklist, and fancy up our piece to make it LIBRARY READY! Next week we will get started with How To Books.

In Math we are working on Addition Concepts and getting ready to learn Addition Strategies next. We are learning that there are lots of ways to make the numbers 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10!

This week we are working on adding endings to words we know like jump, help, and play. When we add ING, S, or ED it changes the meaning!

Have a great week!