Hi Families,

Reminder: Friday, October 7th is a holiday for the kids.

Language Arts: We will enjoy a new story this week from our Houghton Mifflin Reading Series titled Pearl's First Prize Plant. The strategy focus we will be working on is predicting and inferring as well as working on summarizing the stories we read; beginning, middle end, problem, solution.

Phonics: We began our Total Reading Program and will learn a few more this week. Have fun finding these new phonograms in the stories that you and your children are reading.

Handwriting: We will continue learning how to write all of the capital letters and use the week to do lots of practice now that we know how to write the entire alphabet "the first grade way!"

Writing: We will continue our new school wide writing program, Writing Workshop, working on our narrative pieces. We are in the "picking a seed" phase for the coming week.

Grammar: We will work on finding the nouns in the sentences that we read and write.

Social Studies: We will continue to use our Studies Weekly and Scholastic News periodicals.  Also, being kind to others will be weaved into our daily lessons.

Math: We will work in Unit 2  Module 2 in our Bridges Math Program where students will focus on addition and subtraction strategies and emphasizes solving for an unknown. They will be learning about fact families and word with story problems. 

Hi Families,

It was so great to have all of you on the field trip! What a great time and thank you again for driving!!!

Reminder: So excited that our RTI will begin this Monday, September 26th.  As Mrs. Dorney told you all at Back to School Night, RTI (Response to Instruction) is our school-wide leveled reading program.  This program is designed to meet the specific reading needs of each child.  All reading groups are fluid and students will move from group to group according to their ability, needs and growth and we will keep you up to date. 

Help Please: Please take the time daily to sit with your children, ask them to open their school folder and go over the work that they have brought home. This is a great way for you to stay connected to the learning that is happening here in room 6. After reviewing your child's work, please keep it at home. If you have a note for me or some other paperwork to turn in, please put it in the folder and remind your child to take it out in the morning and put it in the Finished Basket. 

Language Arts: We will enjoy a new story this week from our Houghton Mifflin Reading Series titled Seasons. The strategy focus will be working on is evaluating as well as working on the comprehension skills of finding the topic, main idea, details and summarizing the story. It would be great to work on these skills on at home with your child as you enjoy daily reading time together.

Phonics: We will begin our the second half of our Total Reading Program which introduces the phonograms, two or three letters that when together make one or more sounds. We will review the SH ,CH, and TH sounds this week.


Writing: We have continue our new school wide writing program, Writing Workshop,  working on our narrative pieces. We will continue to be in the "gathering" phase of the writing process next week thinking about small moments in our lives.

Grammar: We will learn what a sentence is and what each sentence needs.

Social Studies: We will use our Studies Weekly periodical to learn about the American and California flags, the Pledge of Allegiance and the history of Labor Day. Being kind to others will be weaved into all the daily lessons.


Math: We will work in Module 1 Unit 2 in our Bridges Math Program where students will work on sharing and discussing addition strategies beyond counting by 1's such as counting on, combining small groups and working from known facts to those that are less familiar.

Classroom Needs Wish List: large zip lock bags, colored pencils, prizes for prize box, skinny white board markers, $ for our classroom fund...

Hi Families,

REMINDER: Our field trip is this coming Thursday. Thank you to all of you who got your paper work in on time. We are all set to go so if you are coming with us, be here in Room 4 Thursday morning at 8:10. It is going to be such a great time!

Language Arts: We will enjoy 3 great stories from our Houghton Mifflin Reading Series. The strategy focus will be working on are summarizing and story structure. Working on these skills at home is a great idea!

Writing: We have started our new school wide writing program, Writing Workshop,  and will continue for the next few weeks working on our narrative pieces. We will continue to be in the "gathering" phase of the writing process next week thinking about small moments in our lives.

Grammar: We will look for action words and work with words with the short u sound.

Social Studies: We will use our Studies Weekly periodical to learn about the American and California flags, the Pledge of Allegiance and the history of Labor Day. Being kind to others will be weaved into all the daily lessons.

Math: We will continue in Module 4 unit in our Bridges Math Program where students will work to find the missing addend and work with subtraction. We will continue working to subitize using our ten frames and work with non standard units of measure (unifix cubes and popsicle sticks)

Hi Families,

I hope you had a great week and are looking forward to your weekend. Enjoy the Movie Night at Rio this Friday and I will see you all on Monday. Here is a peek at our week....

Language Arts: We will enjoy 3 great stories from our Houghton Mifflin Reading Series. The skills your child will be working on are identifying fiction and non fiction stories, blending words with short vowels, find nouns in sentences, capitalizing names, and ending sentences with a period.

Writing: We will continue our handwriting program, Total Reading, which helps your child learn how to write "the first grade way" using the "magic C" and "straight line" letters. Watch for the paper to come home and have your children show you what they learned.

Grammar: We will continue our focused look at our 5 vowels and and the rules that make them short or long when used in words. Ask you child to tell you about the "Bossy E" and what he does to vowels in words!

Social Studies: We will use our Studies Weekly periodical to learn about the American and California flags, the Pledge of Allegiance and the history of Labor Day. Being kind to others will be weaved into all the daily lessons.

Math: We will start in Module 4 unit in our Bridges Math Program where students will work to find the missing addend and work with subtraction. We will continue working to subitize using our ten frames and work with non standard units of measure (unifix cubes and popsicle sticks)

Hello Families! Welcome to our Room 4 Weekly Blog! As I shared at Back to School Night, this is the place where you can find out what we are doing in Room 4. It is a also great resource for you as I have posted many links to help your children with their first grade skills. Remember, this is just a snap shot of what we are doing in class. For all the details, be sure to ask your child!

Here is a peek at our upcoming week...

REMINDER: MONDAY IS A HOLIDAY!

Language Arts: We will enjoy 3 great stories from our Houghton Mifflin Reading Series. The skills your child will be working on are capitalizing names, listening to compare and contrast events from a story, noting details in a story and finding words with the short O.

Writing: We will continue our handwriting program, Total Reading, which helps your child learn how to write "the first grade way" using the "magic C" and "straight line" letters. Watch for the paper to come home and have your children show you what they learned.

Grammar: We will start a focused look at our 5 vowels and and the rules that make them short or long when used in words. Ask you child to tell you about the "Bossy E" and what he does to vowels in words!

Social Studies: We will use our Studies Weekly periodical to learn about the American and California flags, the Pledge of Allegiance and the history of Labor Day. Being kind to others will be weaved into all the daily lessons.

Math: We will start in Module 3 of our Bridges Math Program where students will engage in "quick look" activities intended to help them subitize, or recognize the quantity of objects in a set without having to count each individually. Students also explore part-part-whole relationships with numbers to 20.

Library:  We visit the library every Thursday.  If your child brought home their book today, please be sure it comes back by next Wednesday.