Announcements: Please continue to check your childs Rocket Folder every night and initial his or her behavior chart. Curriculum Night for first grade will be on Tuesday, August 25th. Dinner will be served at 5:00 in the MPR and teachers will begin presenting at 5:30. If you plan on eating dinner please remember to RSVP. DRES restaurant night will be at Uncle Maddios Pizza on Tuesday, September 1st. There is no school on Monday, September 7th. Progress reports go home Thursday, September 10th. Fall Picture Day will be on Thursday, September 24th.
A Peek at Our Week
Reading/Language Arts: This week we will be on unit one, week two in our Wonders reading series. Our phonics skill for this week is short i. Our spelling words for this week will follow the short i spelling pattern. In writing we will focus on word order and ending punctuation marks. We will be continuing our Daily Five reading centers. The Daily Five will be explained in more detail on Curriculum Night. Math: We are continuing addition with numbers 0-10. We will practice solving addition word problems by drawing pictures and using manipulatives. Science: We are beginning a unit on plants. This week we will plant brassica seeds and observe them as they grow.