ZOO

Our zoo trip is Tues, October 6th (in case your child didn't get the note home to you.) We would love to have parents go with us. But parents will have to furnish their own transportation (you can car pool) and we can't have siblings on the trip. I'm sorry. We can only take one bus and we can't fit everyone on it.
We are excited because the baby tiger triplets and the baby elephant will be out where we can see them. Please check the weather for that day and have the children dress accordingly.
Thanks,
Mrs. Reeder

Show and Teach
In first grade, I have changed Show and Tell to Show and Teach. This helps us do more than "this is my favorite toy. I like to drive it." or "This is my stuffed animal. I sleep with it. I like to throw it up in the air like this." Since we are having a story on growing, it seems the perfect time to have a Show and Teach session. If you would like, please send a picture of your child when they were a baby or a toddler. It would be wonderful if you would tell them a story they could share with us about when they were young and learning new things. We will share the stories and put the pictures up on the wall for the children to look at and return them to you during the week after the 9th of October. It would help if you could send the picture(s) in an envelope so that they would be protected. Thank you.
Please send in the reading log on Monday. Since you would read Wed. evening and Thursday, I would like those minutes to go with that week. As usual, any minutes you read on Fri/Sat and Sun would go on the next week. We would like to keep that reading habit going, if possible. I am so pleased with much of the growth that I'm seeing already. Please keep it up.
Thanks again, Mrs. Reeder

Thanks!!

I want to give you a big thanks for helping your child get their 100 minutes of reading practice in during the first few weeks. It is so important that we practice this new skill. We are now ready to start our spelling words and the weekly vocabulary words. You will notice that most of the vocabulary words are on the lists of the most frequently used words. Check out the lists we have. Thanks for all you do.

We are finished reviewing and off to a running start in math. I will be sending home the math review with the planner next Monday. I want to look over it with them to help them. I often make notes on the pages - I know that not all of the children can read the notes yet. Will you please help them understand what is missing as you look over their work? Hearts around a number or a letter means that I love this. You wrote it so carefully.
This is our last week for reviewing in reading. I hope that we all remembered our planners with our reading minutes signed in it. I realize that I had so much information to give you at the conference that sometimes things get overlooked or mis-communicated. In first grade, we ask for the planner to be returned on Friday (or Thursday if there is no school on Friday) and then we will send them back to you on Monday. If you forget on Friday, you can return them on Monday. (We are just learning about being responsible in first grade.) Minutes read on Fri., Sat., and Sun. can be added in the planner when you get it on Monday.
We will start our spelling next week. The first test will be on the 18th with short "a" words. I'll post the list on Friday the 11th.
Thanks so much for your support.
Mrs. Reeder