Notes for Parents:
- Walkathon paperwork came home with your child on Monday. This is our ONLY fundraiser for the year, and it is HUGE for our PTC! Please return these fundraisers in your child’s blue folder before the Walkathon on September 27.
- Interested in volunteering in our classroom this semester? We would love your help! Follow this link to see available slots and to sign-up.
- If your child participate in a fall sport or other fall activity, please email me their schedule! I LOVE supporting our first graders outside of school, too. ❤️
Celebrations:
- Quote of the Week – Each week, our class learns about a new quote and spends the whole week trying to embody that quote. At the end of the week, Miss Raisch awards a friend from our class who really shined with that quote’s energy throughout the week. This week’s quote went to ELENA for being brave and trying new things!
- First Grade Family Time – Every Friday, all of the first graders at Georgetown get together for a little assembly! At the assembly, we celebrate our learning, give awards for the quote of the week, along with awards for lost teeth, shoe-tying, and birthdays from the week. Here are our “award-winning” first graders from this week’s family time.
Our Learning:
Reading – We are “building good reading habits” in first grade! This week, we learned the importance of setting goals, reading smoothly, and scooping up words. We each got our own reading mat to use during independent reading time, and we will have new “Mac & Cheese” reading buddies starting on Monday.
Writing – We continued our small moment storytelling this week by writing our OWN stories! Students learned different strategies for spelling tricky words (say the sounds, look for snap words, etc).
Math – We are becoming experts at number partners! For example, the partners of 6 are 1+5, 2+4, 3+3, etc. We have been using our workbooks to practice writing these partner equations for 6, 7, and 8. Plus, we’ve started using iPads for tech time. We use the MOBYMAX app to practice our addition and subtraction fluency every day!
Social & Emotional – We continued learning about our emotions this week and had lots of good conversations about the importance of recognizing our emotions-good or bad. We also learned about facial expressions and how these can be clues as to how a person is feeling.
STAR Assessments – WHEW! We did it! Our first graders are required to take an online reading and math assessment at the start of the school year. Our fourth grade buddies came down to our classroom to help us log onto the computers for the first time, and they helped us if we needed directions repeated during the assessments. We are ALL done and super grateful for our amazing fourth grade buddies!
Word Study – We started our phonics workshop this week by studying the most important words in the world: NAMES! We met with our rug clubs to learn more about each others’ names. We searched for vowel sounds, blends, and other word patterns in our names. We also got special “Book Box Binders” that will store poems, songs, word walls, reading tools, and more.
Other Photos From the Week:
Upcoming Dates:
- Monday, September 16 – Music
- Tuesday, September 17 – PE
- Wednesday, September 18 – Art
- Thursday, September 19 – STEAM, Miss Raisch will be gone in the morning for a training!
- Friday, September 20 – Music, Early Release @ 12:15 pm
