PBIS PomPom Popsicles

First graders worked hard to learn new classroom routines, procedures, and expectations this week. They earned pompoms for acts of safe, respectful, and ready to learn behavior and we celebrated their efforts Friday afternoon with a popsicles and friendship. 

Math: Adding, Subtracting, and Working with Data

Woodstock Elementary School first grade students and teachers are participating in a pilot of a new mathematics program, Imagine Learning. Unit 1 targets are for all students to gain experience with adding and subtracting within 10 and representing and interpreting categorial data. This week, mathematicians reviewed counting a number of objects up to 20, rote coting up to 50, and patricipated in games (centers)  and activities that required them to match an mathematical expression to a visual image and find a sum for those expressions.  They also added 1 or 2 to numbers 0-5 with a focus on connecting +1 and +2 to the counting sequence (5+1=6 because we count 5,6; 5+2=7 because we count 5, 6, 7)

Literacy: Phonics and Fluency

irst graders are gaining confidence as new routines are introduced during word study. During the beginning of the year we spend time reinforcing proper letter formation and reviewing letter names and sounds, including the articulatory gestures that get our liips, teeth and tongue ready to properly produce each sound. Additionally Kindergarten “heart words” (words that are not phonetically spelled) are reviewed. During our reading fluency block, students are working in partnerships to reread familiar texts that are connected to the learning that is happening during word study.

A Little Housekeeping....

 Thank you for sending your child with a healthy, hearty snack each day! Please also remember:

• The school day begins promptly at 7:55. Please help your student get in the important habit of arriving at school on time! First graders are dismissed at 2:44 and pick up students meet in front of the school on the bricked area in front of Ms. Mills' office. 
• All students need a pair of headphones that will be returned at the end of the school year.
• Please make sure your child's daily dismissal plans are entered into PickUp Patrol. Contact Mrs. Hecker in the office (thecker@mtnviews.org) if you need help setting up a PickUp Patrol account.                                                               THANK YOU!

Thursday Folders

Plastic orange folders went home in student backpacks yesterday, Thursday, and will continue to come home most Thursdays of the school year.  These "Thursday Folders" usually include individual finished work and/or other important school paperwork.  The intent of sending student work home is to provide families with a snapshot of skills and activities first graders are working on and perhaps to be used as a conversation starter about your child's day or week.  There is no  need to "correct" or send the finished work back to school, just enjoy a glimpse into your child's development as a reader, writer, speller, mathematician, or scientist.  Sometimes "grown up" paperwork will require a signature or return, so please make it a habit to check this folder closely when it comes home each week.  The orange folder itself should be returned to school the next day, Friday.  Thank you!

Thank You!

 

Thank you for the generous donations of community-sized bottles of hand sanitizer. We are set for a healthy year in first grade.