First Grade Rm. 215 Mrs. Niebergall

September 1st-September 30th 2016

FIRST GRADE RM. 215 MRS. NIEBERGALL

Please check out my teacher page regularly to see the letter day that begins each new week and for other information for our class-to access go to www.franklinboe.org and click on Franklin Park School then Teacher Contact and click on Niebergall.

SEE YOU ALL AT BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT SEPTEMBER 21, 2106!

Reading Workshop: Good Readers: review and practice habits that make a responsible reader.

· Make connections when reading on their own & when listening to a story

· Review Independent Reading Expectations (for example: reading quietly)

· Begin to use Post-its to jot down information from their books

· Begin to use their reading journals

· Begin understanding their HOME & CLASS book baggy-how to use it, what level books to put in and the care of the books

· Review how to read and share with a partner

· What it means to be a good partner – taking turns, listening, sharing

· Finding pages to talk about with a buddy – funny parts, favorite parts, places where they make a connection

Helping out at home:

· Take your child to the library and encourage them to use what they learned to help them pick out books they would be interested in reading at home!

· Read nightly to your child and be their reading buddy, helping them to

practice good listening and sharing.

Writing Workshop: Good Writers: understand what a small moment is and can write about things that happen in their own life.

· Review what a SMALL MOMENT is

· Brainstorm for topics for their small moment stories

· PLAN their writing-review what a good sentence looks like, review the parts of a story (beginning, middle, end)

· Write books on SMALL MOMENT topics

· Review the “rules of writing” such as: proper sentence formation, using sounds to spell words and using sight words

· Remember to add pictures with LABELS to their writing

Helping out at home:

· Reading and writing go hand in hand. Have your child read signs and other things around the house and when you go out (ie: cereal boxes, restaurant and store names). We are starting a basket of environment print words that we can read. Please send in any of the words your child can read from around the house/town (cereal boxes, soup can labels, McDonalds sign). Your child will be able to use these words while they are writing.

· Encourage your child to tell you more when they are explaining an experience

Word Study: We will be learning: reviewing sight words and beginning to build our sight word wall.

· Where the class word wall is and how we can use it

· Sight words we need to practice

· Continuing to use sounds to write words that may be tricky for us

Helping out at home:

· Have your child practice writing at home-even if it is simply investigating the spelling of a word that may be challenging for them

· Please check your child’s homework folder for a list of sight words that they may need to work on

Math: Good Mathematicians: can add and subtract within 10.

· VOCABULARY:

Count back, Count up, Equal sign, Whole, Addition, Subtraction

Helping out at home:

· Have your child practice putting together two numbers

· Help your child to count daily

· Make counting fun by having your child figure out adding two quantities together in real world situations.

· Have your child practice writing number sentences (the addition sentence/equation) to match a problem you might ask them to solve

Science: Good Scientists:

· Understand different types of soil found on the Earth

· Explore the FPS school garden and look at the soil outside in the garden to understand how soil helps things grow

Helping out at home:

· Encourage your child to ask questions about soil and plants when outside

· Talk with your child and ask them to share their science learning with you-either from class science or from science lab classes

Social Studies: Good Citizens:

· Understand & can review the school rules

· Know that they are a part of the community & a neighborhood

Helping out at home:

· Encourage your child to explain school rules to you

· Talk with your child and ask them to share their social studies learning with you-and explain to them some responsibilities of being a good citizen

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