Weekly Update for 09/17/18

IOWC Fair Field Trip

Due to hurricane Florence, the IOWC Fair has been cancelled.  I will send home any money sent in for a chaperone ticket.

Reading Steps at Home

We will begin sending books home and logging steps at home on Monday, October 8^th.  Currently, we are logging steps at school and building stamina towards 30 minutes of independent reading.  The Home Coach Contract will be sent home on Monday, October 1^st that will have more information about at home reading and how to log reading steps at home. 

Wacky Wednesday Schedule 

Each Wednesday, first grade teachers will be meeting for an extended grade level meeting.  In order to accommodate this in our schedule, our day will be "wacky."  We will go to the computer lab at 9:30-1:30 and resource 2:10-3:40.

What are we learning this week?

Reading

1.7 Use semantic clues and syntax to expand vocabulary when reading. 
1.8 Expand vocabulary.
1.9 Read and demonstrate comprehension of a variety of fictional texts.
e) Ask and answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions about what is read. 

Writing SOL 1.13 The student will write to communicate ideas of a variety of purposes. 

c) Revise by adding descriptive words when writing about people, places, things, and events. 

Math 

SOL 1.1a count forward orally by ones to 110, starting at any number between 0 and 110;

SOL 1.1b write the numerals 0 to 110 in sequence and out-of-sequence;

SOL 1.1c count backward orally by ones when given any number between 1 and 30; 

Weekly Schedule

*Monday, September 17      Yellow  Day

*Tuesday, September 18      Green Day

WatchDOG Pizza Night @ 6:30

*Wednesday, September 19   Blue Day

Wacky Wednesday 

*Thursday, September 20     Purple Day

*Friday, September 21        Red Day     

Looking Ahead

• Sept. 28 – PTA general meeting and fall Pizza Bingo (6:30 p.m.)
• Oct. 1 – PTA Fun Run fundraiser starts
• Oct. 3 – First quarter interim reports come home & School Picture Day