Hi everyone!  Thank you so much to everybody who came to Open House Wednesday night.  Your support means so much!  Our short week felt like a full one because we had to squeeze in five days of first grade into four.  Yesterday in reading we took our spelling test and reading assessment on our story this week called "Ants".  Thank you so much for studying spelling words with your child at nights.  On Monday, I will send home a list of our spelling words for the week.  In math right now, we are reviewing and building upon skills from last year.  These skills include:  counting forwards and backwards by 1's, skip counting by 2's, 5's, and 10's, finding numbers that come before and after a number, and the usage of tally marks.  In science/art this week, we have been discussing seasons and the differences among them.  We painted beautiful paintings of a fall tree on Friday.  The kids really enjoyed using the water color paints. 

If you would like to volunteer to come in a work with a group of children sometime within the school year, the best times during our day would be:  Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 9:30 - 10:10 and Monday-Friday from 1:30 - 1:55.  Please let me know if you would like to volunteer and which day/time would be best for you. 

We use dry erase boards every day in math this year and are in desperate need of some black dry erase markers.  If you are ever out and about and think about it, please pick some up for us.  Thank you so much! 

On Monday, your child will be bringing home a book in a ziplock bag with a reading log.  Please make sure your child reads at least 10 minutes every night, and sign the reading log.  The kids will pick out their book to bring home on Monday.

On Thursday we began Unit 2 in Everyday Math.  I sent home the Everyday Math Home Link for Lesson 2.1 on that day.  Thank you for sending it back to school.  We did lesson 2.2 on Friday, but I didn't send home the Home Link for this lesson because it was the weekend.  When a Home Link comes home, please have your child complete it, and send it in the next day OR when the Home Link for the next lesson comes home with your child.  If you have any more questions about the Home Links, please let me know.

For snack purposes, there are 23 kids in our class.  Thank you so much, again for all your help and support!  Have a great weekend!