IMPORTANT INFORMATION
School starts at 8:40 and gets out at 3:20. We will always enter and leave the building at the first grade doors. Bring your planner and folder daily to school! The PTA Fun Run is this Friday! All first graders will be participating in the Fun Run at 9:30. The PTA is providing shirts for all students to wear for the event. Students can continue to collect fun run donations throughout the week. Celebrations and prizes for the Fun Run will be carried out by Friday October 13th. Thank you for coming to Parent Teacher Conference last week! It was wonderful to meet with students and their families. We are so appreciative of the tremendous amount of support and concern for student success in first grade dual immersion. LUNCH CHOICES Monday: Baked Potato, Hamburger, Grilled Cheese Sandwich Tuesday: Pulled Pork Sandwich, Mini Corn Dogs, Chef Salad Wednesday: Crispy Chicken Drumstick, Cheesy Nachos, Tuna Sandwich Thursday: Orange Chicken, Chicken Nuggets, Taco Salad Friday: Cheese Pizza Ripper, Pepperoni Pizza Ripper, Bean & Cheese Burrito, Turkey Sandwich WHAT WE ARE LEARNING ELA: ! Our question of the week is "How do animals take care of their babies?" Our story is titled "A Fox and A Kit." It is an animal literary nonfiction story. We will be talking about the main idea and important ideas of the story. We will be working on our inflected endings –s and –ing. A spelling list will be coming home with your child on Monday. We have been doing 3 of the challenge words as well as one of the dictation sentences. Everyone is attempting to do them but they are not counting against the student's demonstration of mastering the phonics skill of the week. We will also be working on writing personal narratives. We are still working on remembering our capital letters at the beginning and our punctuation at the end. We are learning more stations for our skill based instruction. CHINESE: This week students are finishing the first unit of Mandarin Matrix. They will continue to practice and learn the Chinese characters for numbers 1-10. Next week, students will have some writing practice sent home as part of the weekly homework so that they can continue to develop their writing skills. Special instructions for parents will be sent home to help you guide your student in writing Chinese even if you have never studied the language! Students will continue to review topics introduced at the beginning of the school year (family, friends, animals, clothing, animals, and colors). MATH: Students have finished unit 1 and will be assessed on their understanding of topics covered during the unit on Monday and Tuesday. This week students will begin unit 2 which covers addition and subtraction strategies when working with numbers from 1-20. Please continue to practice math fluency at home and ask your child to practice talking to you about math in Chinese! HOMEWORK: We will have reading fluency, beat the clock, spelling practice and read for 10 minutes. Please remember to adapt the homework if needed. If it needs to be more challenging, use the same procedure and use a more advanced text! 1. Student reads the entire passage to him/herself. 2. Students reads aloud the passage to the adult/parent, who is timing them for exactly ONE minute. During this time, the parent is also keeping track of (counting up) any errors the child makes while reading, BUT does NOT try to correct the child at this time. 3. Adult/Parent counts all the words read in ONE minute, then subtracts the amount student got incorrect and the difference is the words per minute. For example: I read 53 words TOTAL including all the errors I made and I made 6 errors throughout the passage. My “parent” would take 53 words minus 6 which equals 47 words per minute. (53-6=47) Our Winter goal is for oral reading fluency is 24+ words in 1 minute with accuracy of 75%. It’s going to be a great first week of October!
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TeachersMs. Terry and Ms. Mack are so excited for this year! In Ms. Terry's class, students will speak, read, and write in English. In Ms. Mack's class, students will be speak, listen, read, and write in Chinese. Archives
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