This afternoon the kids performed short plays about autumn. They did an awesome job with fluency and expression! Thanks for practicing your kids lines with them.
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Today our school participated in a fund raiser for Heavenly Hats. This organization was started by a former Howard-Suamico student when a loved one was diagnosed with cancer. Students that brought in a dollar were able to wear a hat for the entire day. Our school raised over $500 for Heavenly Hats! Enjoy the photos from our school assembly where a player from the Green Bay Gamblers, students from our school, and Mrs. Sachs (another fellow first grade teacher) shaved their heads to show support for this cause. Click here to learn more about Heavenly Hats This week our class began to learn the routines for word study. Word study, teaches students how to look at words so that they can construct an understanding of how spelling works. Once our routines are set, each child will be able to work with words specific to his/her needs. Today the kids learned what to do during the blind sort. A blind sort is where one child reads the word and the other child indicates where the word belongs without seeing it. Today schools all over the country participated in Read for the Record Day. The book we read was called, Ladybug Girl and the Bug Squad By Jacky Davis and David Soma. Your child can hear the story again at: http://www.wegivebooks.org/ Living the Life of a Writer...The first graders have been exploring a series called Meet the Author. They have found out that writers write best about what they know. While studying various authors they also found examples of notebooks the authors keep to house ideas that they might later use when they are writing stories. Today, the kids started their very own writer's notebook where they will be collecting ideas, words, and other memories that will inspire them to write stories and hopefully they will never have to say.... I don't know what to write. Another goal of keeping this notebook is to train them to be more observant about what is happening in the world around them. If we look closely, there are stories everywhere! |
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