Ms. Harris' Hoppin First Graders: September 19-23, 2016 Week 5

This week we will be very busy again. We have the "Back to School Ball" on Tuesday night. On Friday we will have a "Math Marathon" during school. The math marathon will be students rotating throughout all six first grade classrooms and each first grade teacher will teach a math activity that relates to the grade level curriculum.

We will read "The Big Blue Ox." It is a fictional story about an ox. We will blend and read short o words; recognize the character and setting in a story; identify predicates in a sentence (action part -verbs); read words with plural -s; and practice daily Saxon Phonics.

In Math we will continue composing and decomposing numbers up to 20 using concrete objects. We will have a test on Thursday.

In Science we will investigate properties of matter.

In Social Studies we will learn and discuss the roles of leaders and authority figures are in our homes and community. and discuss their roles.

Calling All Box Tops!!! Please send us your box tops. This helps our class earn money to buy things for our classroom! Thank you!

Upcoming Events...

Sept 20 ~Back to School Ball @6

Sept 27~ Early Release

Sept 29 ~ Progress Reports

Oct 4 ~ Kona Ice

Oct 12 ~ Reading and Writing Night 6-7pm

Oct 12 ~ Shot Clinic 9-11am

We created windsocks and tested

wind direction and wind speed outside.

We played "OOPS" a sight word game with partners in class!

We learned that the plot is the beginning, middle and end of a story.

We sequenced "The Three Little Pigs" by putting the story in order.

We had an additional Science lesson with Mrs. Bridges. She introduced the 3 states of matter and we discussed properties of matter. We will continue this skill over the

next couple of weeks in class.