What a wonderful first week of First Grade!!

We had a really good first week. We spent a lot of time learning and practicing our rules, routines and procedures and the children did an excellent job! We will continue to work on all of these over the coming weeks. It's EXTREMELY important that these rules, routines and procedures become second nature to the children because this help will create a calm, predictable and organized environment where lots of learning can take place, and also some fun!

We are scheduled to go to the library every Tuesday and are very excited about our first visit this week. Your child we be allowed to check out 2 books so please be sure to ask your child to share with you the "good fit" book(s) they choose. Tuesdays will be our scheduled library time, however as the children become more independent readers they will be allowed to go on their own as needed. We haven't started Accelerated Reader yet, if the computers are set we will most likely begin next week.

Reading - Students have been placed appropriately in their reading groups and we have talked about centers and our expected behavior in centers. We will begin this routine shortly ~ the children are extremely anxious to start centers.

Language- Tomorrow you will see a list of grammar rules in your childs take home folder. We are working on rules 1, 2, and 3. Right now they are only having to copy my sentences. Soon they will have to start editing my sentences. If you see that your child is not finishing their work in time please start practicing copying sentences at home. I will start taking this as a grade starting this Friday. They must be finished in 30 minutes.

Math - We have been doing chapter 1 since last week. We have a test tomorrow. I sent home 2 pages of homework for them to do tonight as practice. Please send it back to school completed tomorrow. I will read the problems to and they must know how to work them. You will soon receive a yellow math practice workbook that will be kept at home. I will post what pages are to be completed for homework on our blog. The math homework from the workbook does not need to be returned, it is for practice and reinforcement. We will begin chapter 2 Wednesday.

I am looking forward to another fabulous week in first grade. Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions or concerns.