Reminders...

During these busy days, I thought it might be helpful to give you a few reminders.
*Fall Festival is this Friday. Please have your child wear his/her costume to school. They will have the opportunity to change after the parade. Uniforms are not required for the festival. Please remember to sign-out your child before you go the the festival. The sheet will be located on the whiteboard in the classroom. Bring your cameras! This is a very fun event!
*Due to the Fall Festival we will not have a spelling test on Friday. We are also giving the children a break from the reading folders. But, please, encourage them to continue to read at home.
*Spirit Day is this Wednesday.
*Poetry in the Park is November 11th beginning at 8:30 a.m. I sent the poem home to practice. Many of the students have already memorized the poem!

Robust Vocabulary words this week:
ashamed, mused, soared, athletic, awkward, superb

Authors Sharing

We have all enjoyed our Writer's Workshop.  It is especially nice when our young authors share their writing with their classmates!  Our focus during our Writer's Workshop has been to tell a true "small moment" story that has a beginning, middle and end.  This week we will work on telling our stories using at least five good details in our writing.  I can't wait to hear their stories!

Other important reminders:

*The reading folder is due on Monday.

*Word cards are due on Thursday.

*Fall Festival is next Friday!

*Please send in a pumpkin small enough to fit in the palm of your hand by next Monday.

*Our library book check-out day is Tuesday.  Please remind your child to bring their books.

Robust Vocabulary Words for this week are:

claimed, dine, groaned, classify, function, nutritious

I wish you all a wonderful week!

Compliment Party!

What a great class!  We have been in school for only 37 days and they already earned their first compliment party!  A special thank you to Tanya Cruise for bringing in ice cream sandwiches for the students to enjoy.  

October 5-16 Updates

We have been busy, busy, busy in first grade! Thank you for meeting with me to discuss your child's progress during our conferences. We are continuing to learn about the human body.
Last week we focused on our brains. The first picture shows one of our students holding a sheep's brain! What brave students we have! By examining the sheep's brain, we can learn about our own brains. We will continue to focus on our nervous system and learn about our five senses this week.
Posted above are also photos of Dr. Friedman speaking to our class about our bones. The students also has the chance to listen to their heart. Thank you so much, Dr. Friedman for volunteering your time! We all enjoyed your presentation and learned a lot!
Robust Vocabulary for this week:
chorus, odor, shoved, assemble, consume, enthusiastic
Robust Vocabulary for next week:
applauded, chatty, gather, duty, envy, resent
Have a great week!