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    The first grade class received caterpillars that they are observing go through their life cycle. The students are learning reading and writing skills, including identifying characters, settings, and events in stories. They have begun computer lab, where they will practice typing, math, and other skills. The teacher provides updates on classroom activities and learning in math, science, and other subjects.

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    The first grade class received caterpillars that they are observing go through their life cycle. The students are learning reading and writing skills, including identifying characters, settings, and events in stories. They have begun computer lab, where they will practice typing, math, and other skills. The teacher provides updates on classroom activities and learning in math, science, and other subjects.

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    !

    st Grade is Hoppin Fir


    Hi Families, Have you heard? The caterpillars are here! It is so exciting. We received them on Friday, Sept. 21 and we are watching them eat and grow, eat and grow, and eat and grow! We have 5 caterpillars and we look for them among the milkweed plants daily. It is one of the most exciting things we do in our first grade. The past few weeks the boys and girls have been learning the procedures for the 5 components of Daily 5. (Read to Self, Read to Someone, Listen to Reading, Word Work, and Writers Workshop) Next week the kids will begin to make good choices as far as the order they want to do the 5 activities. They will be doing the daily 5 activities in small groups. You will see a record sheet coming home that will show how they kept track of their choices. I teach a reading strategy daily (or review one) and the most recent one was to identify who the characters were in the story, why they were important, and where the story took place (setting). Ask your child about the book, A Frog Thing by Eric Drachman, and have your child tell you who Frank is and what he wanted to do. This is preview of what your child will do when they bring their take home books home in a few weeks. They need to be able to tell me who the characters are, where the setting is, and events that happened in the story. During our Listen to Reading time in class the kids will be recording this information from the books. We began computer lab this past Thursday. Eventually we will play games that teach keyboarding skills; go online to the math website to practice math skills (same site you have access to at home), practice typing our word wall words in a word document and learn to change the font, size, color and boldness of words, etc. But for now we are learning how to log on using our new first grade user name and password and how to shut down and then re-power the computers. I think it has already become a high-light of the week. We officially launched Writers Workshop in our classroom. The boys and girls are learning and practicing: 1. Pre-Writing (thinking and sketching) and 2. Making a Draft (writing words and reading the draft). They are working on stretching out the words to sound spell them and to keep finger spaces in between the words so others can read it. Each child is writing things they know a lot about so they can include more details in their stories.

    September 28, 2012


    Word Wall Words:

    Oct. 1-5 up, *all, her, did, down


    The words with the * indicate that it is a red word and so it does not follow a rule for spelling. Skill work: all word family and short/u/

    Oct. 8-12 not, *one, out, look, them


    Skill work: ook family and short /o/ sound and review /th/

    Oct. 15-19 *could, like, will, *do, this


    Skill work: ill word family, magic e, *oh you lucky dog, review/th/

    Contact information:
    kdonze@rockfordschools.org
    Classroom phone: 863-6363, ext. 4721 Office phone: 863-6362
    Blog: kimdonzeclassroom.blogspot.com HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!

    Mark your Calendar:


    Oct. 1: September Reading calendars due. Please remember to be recording the number of minutes you read each day. The goal is 15 minutes 5 times a week. Look for Octobers Calendar to come home too. Oct 12 & 26: Popcorn Days (.25 cents a bag) Oct. 17: Picture re-take day and 1/2 day of school. Dismissal at noon. Oct. 31: Halloween parade party 2:30 parade, with the party following at 2:30 3:15. Feel free to come to our Halloween party and
    take pictures.

    Here are some pictures that show a little of what is happening in our room:

    This is an art project we did where the children got to create themselves using scraps of paper and yarn. What a beautiful class!!

    Johnny Appleseed visited our class and read a story to us.

    We had a wonderful time learning about who Johnny Appleseed was. (Johnny Chapman was his real name.) They all had an apple to graph, cut, and peel for our delicious applesauce we made!! Thank you so much for sending them with your children! We also read many books (fiction and nonfiction) about apples, read poems, made an apple project, and more. It was a great apple themed week! We are looking forward to more exciting things in the coming weeks!

    Belmonts Best
    Mrs. Thelen will invite these kids to eat their lunch with her during the week of: Oct. 1 : Olivia Gossman Oct.8: Mika Marshall Oct. 15: Sarah Bryant
    PTO has purchased a book for each child again this year and they will receive it at lunch on their special day.

    Special Schedule:
    Monday: P.E. Tuesday: ART Wednesday: LIBRARY
    Please note that all library books must come back to school by Wed. morning in order for your child to check out another book.

    Thursday: P.E./ COMPUTER LAB Friday: MUSIC

    Parent Helpers:
    I will be sending home a schedule next week with parents who volunteered and to see if there may be more who want to help. I have to change the time just a little bit, due to a scheduling conflict here at school. I am going to have parent helpers from 9:3010:30, Tuesday thru Friday. My goal is still to begin using parents the Week of Oct.15 I will stay in touch.

    Heres what we are doing in math:


    We finished our first unit it math and will begin unit 2 next week. The unit has 4 main focus areas:

    To explore various uses of numbers, To introduce the analog clock, To practice find the values of various combinations of pennies and nickels, and To introduce number models for change to-more and change-toless situations.

    SCIENCE IS EXCITING!
    Monarch caterpillars are here! We will learn their life cycle and some amazing facts about these beautiful butterflies. We are learning about the 4 seasons, weather (including temperature, wind, cloud cover, and precipitation in each season), and watching a maple tree in our school yard change each season. The Seasons will be a year long theme in our class.

    They are really cute little caterpillars. We will be watching them grow and change during the next 5-6 weeks. I am sure you will hear a lot about them. We put fresh milkweed leaves in the net daily and are amazed at how much they eat and grow!

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