Old Union Elementary First Grade

Week of Oct. 7

Book Character Day Parade!  Thursday, Oct. 31.  Have your child dress as a favorite character.  First thing in the morning, we’ll all parade around the playground.  Wait for us outside and you’ll see us!  Don’t forget to send the book. We’ll share with the class and get to read them during reading workshop.  (no scary costumes or weapons…)

NO school on Oct. 14.  Enjoy!

Our Encore schedule so that your kiddo remembers tennis shoes-VERY important

	Mon.	Tues.	Wed.	Thurs.	Fri.
Thomas	PE	music	PE	art	Rotation with PE
Graviett	PE	art	PE	music	“
Herreman	art	PE	music	PE	“
Johnson	music	PE	art	PE	“

In Language Arts this week, we will…

·        Sketch rather than draw during writing so that we’ll have plenty of time to write words

·        Write stories that have a beginning, middle and end

·        Write words we “just know” be using word wall and spelling dictionaries

·        Use different strategies while reading

·        Focus and get our minds ready to read

·        predict

·        Practice reading high frequency words

·        Begin our word sorts to learn word patterns and help our spelling

·        Build our vocabulary with a weekly read-aloud. We will be introduced to 3 new words.  All week, we’ll keep track of when we use them in our writing, speaking, or see them in our reading.  The new words will be posted so that we will have a reference for future use.

·        Read word family poems to reinforce the patterns that many words have

In Math, we will…

·        Make tally marks to represent numbers

·        Collect and sort data to create a graph

·        Make groups of tens and ones

·        Continue to solve our problems of the day.  We use “CUBES” strategies.  (Circle the numbers, Underline key words, Box the question, Ex out extra information, and Show our work)

·        Visit our math stations. Each station will have a math activity that reinforces concepts that we are currently learning or have previously learned. Your child will also be able to visit “First in Math” at some point this week.

In Science, we will learn about matter!

Upcoming Dates:

Upcoming Events in October

            National School Lunch Week

10/17  Picture Day (Student Clubs and Individual Retakes)

10/18  Dragon Day (not the best day to come to lunch- your child will have a different lunch time…)

10/20  PTO Online Auction Begins

10/21 National School Bus Safety Week

10/23  First Grade Family School Night 4:00-5:00 (McDonald’s on 1709 at Davis by Hobby Lobby)

10/25  Dragon Dash

            Play It Forward Equipment Drive at Dragon Game (StuCo)

10/27  PTO Online Auction Ends

10/31 Book Character Day!

***Here are high frequency words that first graders need to be able to SPELL correctly on a consistent basis by the end of the first semester.

First Semester High Frequency

Spelling Words

all	as	be	but
by	for	had	have
he	his	not	on
or	this	to	what