Happy FriYAY!!!!

Happy Friday! We had an awesome week in first grade!

Today we had an awesome morning meeting celebrating FriYAY! Everyone went around the room and shared what makes them say YAY! Annabelle (my puppy) and my six awesome students make me say YAY!!

This week in math we wrapped up chapter 3. The objectives students mastered were:

1. Numbers to 10 can be represented on a ten-frame using 5 and 10 as benchmarks.
2. The number 10 can be broken into parts in different ways.
3. A missing part of a whole can be found when the whole and the remaining part are known.

Our next chapter is subtraction facts to 12. We will start that on Monday.

For language, we continued to practice short a, e, i, o, and u sounds. Make sure to ask your student to sing our short vowel song!

For writing, we are working on writing our first book. We read If you give a Mouse a Cookie, and students are writing their own books based on it. They are very interesting! We will be finishing them up next week.

In spelling, we continue to work through our sight words. Today we had our 10 sight-word spelling test. The next 10 words are below. We will have our next spelling test on Friday.

1. Long
2. Which
3. Where
4. Were
5. How
6. Back
7. Another
8. Learn
9. Other
10. Over

In social studies, we are going to read Duck for President and discuss what qualities make a good president.

In science, we continue to monitor the growth of our tadpoles, Ginger and Star.

In reading, we are starting our non-fiction unit! We have a lot of interesting passages and books to read. I am very excited!

Congratulations to all the award winners in first grade! I am so proud of everyone!

Upcoming:

1. Virtue of the month for November is kindness
2. $10 free dress- Tuesday-Friday for election week
3. Turkey in disguise project due Monday, November 14th

Have a great weekend!!!!

Jillian