It's Zoo Day

It’s hard to believe that another week has escaped by! We have been busy at work on so many things here in first grade. A few reminders:
• Tomorrow September 16th is our field trip. A blue note went home today with reminders. Please make sure that your child brings a sack lunch that can have all parts thrown away. I would recommend checking the weather in the morning… your child is welcome to bring a light sweatshirt or jacket. I asked them not to bring water bottles unless it has a strap. I will be giving your child their Nike shirt tomorrow to wear on the field trip.
• Friday September 23rd is our first school movie night presented by PTO from 7-9. They will be showing RIO. Tickets are $5 per child and $15 for a family of 3 or more. A yellow form with more information will be sent home tomorrow.
• The Nike store is now open. We will be getting a chance to shop Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9:45am. Most items range from 10 cents to $1. They have pencils, erasers, snacks and lots of little neat things!

This week in class:
Reading: We have been focusing on –ck ending words and reviewing high frequency sight words. Wednesday we had our first sight word testing. If your child came home with list 2 this will be their new words to practice for next week. If list 1 came home I would like them to practice this list again and be ready for testing next Wednesday. The toughest words were “said, was, and that”. We have been working on retelling stories with a beginning, middle, and end.
Math: In math we have been working really hard on our addition and subtraction strategies. Today we used a balance to demonstrate equations and how to make each side “equal”.
Health: Friendship has continued to be the topic this week. We spent some time in small groups talking about things that we have alike and different. We also learned many nursery rhymes this week! In each nursery rhyme we found the rhyming words and describing words. With Jack, Be Nimble we took turns jumping over the candlestick and measured our jumps! With Ba Ba Black Sheep we made black hand prints and estimated how many cotton balls it would take to fill our palm. Today we read Hickory Dickory Dock and built a grandfather clock out of geometric shapes!

Have a wonderful weekend!
Mrs. Crooker