Week of 9/11

Dear Parents,

Welcome to our Classroom Blog! We are so excited to start our first full week of first grade and are looking forward to a great year! Thanks to all of you who came to Back to School Night! It was great to meet everyone! We have a lot of fun things planned so keep checking our classroom blog for updates and pictures of what is going on in Room 19!

Here are a few reminders for this week:

- The first few weeks of school are very important for setting expectations and learning our classroom routines and procedures. Students thrive in environments where they feel comfortable and know what is expected of them. I urge you to also have expectations and routines at home as well. For example, each day after school your child can eat a snack, empty their home folder, complete their homework and practice their sight words and spelling words for the week. Simple chores like packing their school bags, helping pack lunches/snack and making their beds will help your child to become responsible, organized and independent!

- Please be sure to check your child's "Home Folder" with them every night. You can empty out any papers that were completed in school. These will be in the "Home" side of the folder. If anything needs to be signed or turned in, please place it in the "To School" side. I ask that your child's clip chart calendar be initialed each night. Please make sure that the calendar, homework (if a worksheet) stay in the "To School" and be returned each day.

- We will start off slow with homework the first few weeks so the kids can get back into the swing of it! 

- On Friday, we will be having our One Book, One School Book Club. Students are asked to wear their t-shirt that will be sent home today with their gym shorts. We will be talking about "Boxitects" and completing a fun activity with our 8th grade Buddies.

- There will be a dress down day on Monday, 9/18. Please send in $1.00 to dress down.

- The Mystery Reader sign up genius is up! You can find it under the "Mystery Reader" tab. Please sign up to read for one slot only as of now. If you have any questions please let me know!

- Please email me with any questions or concerns :)

Thanks!
Miss Tosti

Homework

Monday

Religion: practice saying the Hail Mary (can be found on inside cover of homework copybook)

Phonics: page 67

Math: 

Tuesday

Religion: practice saying the Hail Mary

Phonics: page 68

Math: 

Wednesday

Religion: practice saying the Hail Mary

Phonics: page 69

Math: 

Thursday

Religion: practice saying the Hail Mary

Phonics: page 71

Math: 

*wear Summer Reading t-shirt with gym shorts*

A Peek at Our Week

Religion

We will be learning about the story of creation and how we were all made in the image and likeness of God in Chapter 1. We will also learn about how God made each of us unique!

Reading

We will start our new reading series with the Foundations and Routines unit. 

Math

This week we will focus on writing numbers and number words. We will also work on putting numbers in order and filling in missing numbers and counting forwards and backwards.