Today was filled with lots of Halloween festivities! We did a Halloween syllable sort, graphing activity with treats, ate lunch in the classroom to watch Garfield's Halloween, did a Room on the Broom activity, and more. The students had a fun day!

I hope everyone had a great weekend!

What is your child learning this week?

Math: We will be learning about fact families or related math facts.  On Halloween, we will do a fun graphing activity with treats! We are also continuing to work on solving addition and subtraction word problems using various strategies.

Science/Social Studies: In Social Studies, we are learning about Benjamin Franklin!

Language Arts/Daily 5/Writing: The phonics focus for the week is open end vowels. In Language Arts, we will be talking about syllables.  For writing, we are starting informational writing or writing to inform our readers on a topic using facts. This week we will practice this by learning about bats and writing about them. We are continuing to do Daily 5 rotations.

*First grade will be having a music performance called "A Bugz Christmas" on November 29th. I have sent home information regarding what your child should wear if they choose to participate in the musical. If your child has been given a solo part, they brought home their lines. Please practice these so they can be prepared for the performance!

The link for information about the musical is here:
https://aesmusicroom.weebly.com/1st-grade-program-information.html

Important Dates:
October 31: Halloween! (no costumes please)

Today the author George O'Connor came to speak to the school. He drew dinosaurs and shared two of his books. He was very funny. The students loved it! 😊

We also went to the Science Lab today. The students had warm apple cider and went outside to investigate all of the changes we see in the Fall.

Thank you again for attending your child's conference last week. It meant a lot to me, and I know your child enjoyed sharing their progress with you. Thank you for all of your time and effort to helping your child succeed!

I hope everyone had a wonderful, fun weekend! I think it has actually skipped from Summer to Winter 😂 Fall is my favorite season and I hope that you all are able to enjoy the Fall festivities!


What is your child learning this week?

Math: We will be continuing graphing with fun Halloween graphing activities. Last week we talked about who in the class is afraid of spiders and graphed the data. This week we will be talking about their favorite candy and voting between pumpkins and bats. We will be getting deeper into graphs by asking questions about the data.

Science/Social Studies: The students are going to the Science Lab on Thursday!

Language Arts/Daily 5/Writing: The phonics focus for the week is Long I words. In Language Arts, we will be introducing nouns and verbs. We will also be working more on retelling stories (character, setting, beginning, middle, and end). For writing, we are writing Halloween stories 😊 We are continuing to do Daily 5 rotations. The students seem to be very comfortable with rules and routines for Daily 5! It took a lot of practice but we are finally there.

Important Dates:
October 22-26: Red Ribbon Week
October 24: Wear red for Red Ribbon Week
October 25: Author George O'Connor will be talking at our school!
October 25: Peace, Love, and Pizza night. Come out and support our school!
October 26: FBI Breakfast (7:00-7:45 am)
October 26: Boovie Night at 6:00 pm. Hope to see you there!

I want to give a HUGE thank you to all of you for coming to your child's conference this week. I appreciate you all being flexible with your schedule in order to attend. I hope that you learned a lot about your child's progress in my class. I am so proud of all of them!

To start getting into the Halloween spirit, we spent some time learning about spiders, discussing what spiders can do, what they have, and what they are, as well as a graphing activity: "Are you afraid of spiders?" Surprisingly, 15 out of 22 of us answered no 😂 They are a lot braver than me!

*Red Ribbon Week is next week. Red Ribbon Week is a national event that promotes drug awareness and prevention each year. At Addison, we encourage our students to make good choices. We hope you will support us in celebrating happy, healthy, choices at home! 😃

Monday:"Make a pledge Monday!" - At the start of the Red Ribbon week, Students will sign a class pledge to show that they pledge to live a healthy life! Students will receive Red Ribbon stickers and pencils.
Tuesday: "Color my life drug free" - Students will receive a Red Ribbon Week coloring sheet.
Wednesday: "Wear Red Wednesday!" - Wear red to support a healthy life!
Thursday: "Healthy Snack Day"- Students will bring a healthy item to eat during snack time.
Friday: "Team up against drugs!" - Wear your favorite team gear or Addison spirit wear.


Important Dates:
- October 22-26: Red Ribbon Week
- Friday, October 26: FBI Breakfast (7:00-7:45 am)
- Friday, October 26: Boovie Night!

Today the students had a preview of the book fair and made their wish lists of books they want. They brought them home today, so please look at them 😊 Remember that the book fair will be open next week!

*Please remember that students are encouraged to come to conferences. This will give them the opportunity to share their leadership notebooks.

Reminders:
-Conference week is next week (October 15-19). It will be Early Release all week. Please plan accordingly.

I look forward to seeing all of you at conferences next week. Have a great weekend!

Today was STEM Day!!! For STEM Day, the students were asked to create a magnet maze game. Their maze had to only have one path from the start to the finish line, and they had to be able to move a paper clip with a magnet through the maze. I love watching the students use their creativity together!

The students ate lunch in the classroom today and we watched a Magic School Bus episode on magnets 😊

Reminders:
- Conference week is next week (October 15-19). It will be Early Release day all week!