This week your child is learning about using familiar addition strategies to work with numbers up to 10. A Family Letter will come home in your child's backpack tomorrow (12/16/22).
Dear Families,
December offers many multicultural celebrations that happen around the world such as Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and Christmas. To honor these celebrations we invite the children to participate in the following spirit days:
Friday, Dec. 9 - Black, Red, and Green for
Kwanza
Friday, Dec. 16- Ugly Sweater, for Christmas, winter, or
other holidays
Monday, Dec. 19 - Blue for Hanukkah
Friday, Dec. 23rd- Pajama Day
We had our Zones lesson today! We added some new tools to our Toolbox. We read a story called “Ruby Finds a Worry.” When we are worried or anxious we are in the Yellow Zone. One way we can shrink our worries is by saying how we feel! We can do this verbally or express ourselves by drawing or writing. Another tool we added is “Trace 8 Breathing.” Students put a breathing 8 into their toolboxes to use if they are in the Yellow Zone.
Joyfully,
Hilary Jackson
This week your child will explore true and false equations.
A Family Letter will come home in your child's backpack on Thursday, 11/10.
Blue Bag Information
The Take-Home Bookbags will come home daily Monday - Thursday and will need to be returned to school each day.
The Take-Home book bag should contain the books listed below.
These books are an option for reading each night. Students should read 20 minutes each night.
Paper books will be sent home at the end of each unit to practice reading.
Children will get new choice books each week.
Decodable books: These are books we have read together and students should be able to read on their own. Some have a green box at the top and say Decodable Story at the top left. If we have not completed the activities in the yellow box at the bottom of the page, feel free to do them together! Others are white and reinforce the skills we have been working on in class.
Shared reading books: (Sent home in your child’s BEE BOOK on
Choice books: These are books the students can choose each week from my book bins and students may be able to read on their own, but they also may need support. These can be read to them. These will switch each week.
Hilary Jackson
Highlights from Unit 1 Week 6: What is a neighborhood?
Reading:
First-grade readers have read all about neighborhoods for the first five weeks of school. To wrap up Unit 1, students picked a neighborhood worker and did a research project to explore what their job is and how that worker helps their neighborhood. Children worked together and used resources such as books and videos to help with their research. Children chose to write an informational book or create a poster about their workers and then presented it to the class. Children chose whether they wanted to present to the whole class or in small groups. This was a fun and hands-on project that the children really enjoyed!
Foundational Skills
This week your child will learn to use subtraction to solve comparison word problems.
We had our Zones lesson today! Today, we read a story about “Betti Spaghetti.” In the story, Betti gets frustrated (Yellow Zone!) at Recess and takes a break to use a strategy called “Spaghetti Body.” This strategy is progressive muscle relaxation and it is a way to calm the body before we get to the Red Zone. We also learned about the Rollercoaster breathing technique: We will continue to add strategies to our toolkit in the coming weeks. As always, please reach out with any questions!
Students and staff alike are invited to come to school in comfortable, relaxed clothing or pj's on Tuesday, November 1st. Please make sure your child has appropriate shoes and warm layers for outdoor recess.
