Hello Parents,
We had a great first day of first grade! This is what our day looked like: MORNING FIVE - We learned and practice our “Morning Five” routine. This is what your child is responsible to take care of when they enter the room in the morning: Hang up their BACKPACK, put LUNCHBOX on the shelf, move their LUNCH CLIP, get their HOMEWORK FOLDER out, and get two sharp PENCILS ready for the day. They may then read a book quietly at their desk. SCHOOL SUPPLIES - I distributed supplies to each of the students. THANK YOU SO MUCH for donating so many wonderful supplies and getting our class off to a great start! There are a few students who do not have a pencil pouch/box yet, and a couple who had broken zippers. Will you please ask your child if his/her pencil pouch is working well. READING - We read the book Ten Rules for Being a Superhero by Deb Pilutti. We will read it again tomorrow and talk more about our class rules. Today the students learned our first rule: One Person Talks at a Time. GETTING TO KNOW YOU - We practiced rule #1 by taking turns sharing our “All About Me” pages. We will take some more time to finish sharing tomorrow. If your child has not completed this, please have them turn it in by Friday. The kids also drew their beginning-of-the-year self portraits. They are fantastic! MATH / READING ASSESSMENTS - Today we began our reading assessments and our math fact assessments. We will continue with spelling and math assessments this week, so that they will be ready to begin their leveled math and language arts classes on Monday. SCOREBOARD - We also practiced our “Mirror/Repeat” responses today, and we earned our first dot on our class reward chart by having more “yes!” points for following directions than “oh no!” points. By the end of the week I will introduce our dot charts for individual rewards. You can read more about this here: CLASSROOM EXPECTATIONS Here are a couple of things that I wanted to clarify for you: WATER BOTTLES - We do not allow students to leave the classroom during class time to get a drink, so PLEASE send a water bottle to school for your child. We leave the bottles in the classroom throughout the week and take them home on Friday to be washed. If you would like them to come home more often, please just let your child know to take it - I am fine with that. MORNING SNACK - The students may bring a snack for their morning recess (10:00), as long as it is a healthy snack. I will not allow them to take cookies, candy, or desserts out to recess. Please package morning snacks so that your child can easily spot it in his/her lunch box. Thanks for doing such a great job supporting your child’s learning. Your partnership means so much to me. I am so happy to be working with all of you this year!
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