Fire Prevention Day!

Another slideshow by Smilebox This week we finished up reading Red Clover books and voted on our favorite.  Me...Jane by Patrick McDonnell was the winner for the Firefly team.  This book was about Jane Goodall.  If you are interested in learning more about her please visit the following:  http://www.janegoodall.org/media/news/animal-planet-accompanies-dr-jane-goodall-global-excursion-during-roar-campaign . Wednesday was Fire Prevention Day.  We learned about tools vs. toys, how to stop, drop and roll and how to stay low.  It was a fun morning for everyone! We finished our first Fundations unit today and will begin Unit 2 on Monday.  This unit will focus on blending, reading and spelling three sound short vowel words. We will also learn capitalization, punctuation and word spacing for sentence dictation.   We are continuing our bug unit in math.  This week we solved our bug problems, sorted bugs and practiced counting ten and more.  We also worked in structured math groups.  Please check out the Fastt Math letter that went home in Friday Folders today from the math department.  This will be the first week for reading homework.  Everyone now has a book bag that they will bring back and forth every day between home and school.  They may choose two new books from our library every day to bring home to read.  I'm asking every student to read for 10 minutes each night and complete their reading record.  Reading records can be turned in every Friday with other homework.    Please feel free to have your child read books from home during their reading time too.  I am sending home books daily to supplement what you already have at home for reading. I will be sending additional homework in the Friday Folder beginning September 28th. It has been a terrific week of getting to know each other better and settling in to school routines.  We have had many compliments on our hallway behavior and I have been very impressed with how well everyone is staying focused during quiet reading time and during all the learning we are doing throughout the day.  First grade is a big leap from Kindergarten, all of our Firefly first graders should be very proud of the accomplishments they have made already this year!