Dear Families,
Here is our week in review:
Social-Emotional Learning:
This week the students continued exploring different ways we are all connected by creating a paper chain. Each strip of paper symbolized a different worry, question or excitement we all share. We hung our paper chain in our classroom!
This week, the students continued learning more about different strategies for finding calm moments and mindfulness. We practiced belly breathing and listened to calming music while engaging in mindful coloring. We even learned a new song about belly breathing!
Ms. Filion joined us for a special read aloud. She read the book “I Promise” by LeBron James. She taught us how to make special promises for how we can spread kindness to others and how we can make the world a better place. We also learned that resilience, creativity and resourcefulness are wonderful attributes and we should always be true to who we are and be proud of who we are. Thank you Ms. Filion for sharing this wonderful message of hope with us.
Literacy:
The students participated in our online reading assessment. This online reading assessment is a screener and gives us a snap-shot of the students understanding of phonological awareness, phonics, high-frequency words/vocabulary and reading comprehension. The results will be shared with families at our check-ins later this month/beginning of November. Teachers will also administer the Benchmark Assessment System by Fountas and Pinell. This will also be shared with you at our check-ins later this month/early November.
The students continued to participate in literacy activities focused upon defining characters and their traits in the books we read. The two grades met outside for a special literacy performance by the second graders. The second graders read pre-selected passages from various books written by Kevin Henkes, while the first graders helped them define the characters in these passages. Thank you second graders for modeling fluency and reading responses.
1st Grade Math:
First grade mathematicians continued work on number sequences and deepened their understanding of the concepts decade, equation and sum in our number corner activities and games. We also looked at columns in our Number Corner Journals.
First grade mathematicians practiced numbers and combinations of numbers using ten-frames and rekenreks.
First grade mathematicians explored the second decade (10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19). They learned that these numbers are also called teen numbers (and they are different from the -ty numbers, like 30,40, etc)
First grade mathematicians learned that teen numbers are composed of a group of 10 and some more/some extra.
Upcoming Events, News and Reminders:
The students at ABS participated in the first Fire Drill of the year. They did an amazing job following directions, having calm bodies and quiet voices.
Your child brought home a Sight Word Booklet in his/her Home Folder. This booklet contains high-frequency words, words that often occur in early reader books and most of these words do not follow our decoding/sounding out strategies. Your child is encouraged to read these words at home so he/she can automatically recognize them in texts to enhance reading fluency and comprehension. Thank you for practicing these words at home with your child. When we use these booklets at school, the child earns a sticker or star in the bottom box when all the words can be read fluently and without hesitation and mistakes. The corresponding circle on the cover will then be colored in as well. When all 10 circles are colored in, your child can bring the booklet back to school for a certificate!
Shhhhhhhh, we are having a special surprise Treasure Hunt with the students on Monday. Please do not tell them about this event. We wanted to check in with all of you to make sure that the following snack items are okay for us to give your child after the treasure hunt:
Cheese sticks
Pretzels
Welch’s fruit gummies
All snacks are already individually wrapped.. If we do not hear from you, we understand these snacks are okay for your child to consume. Please only get back to us if your child cannot eat any of the above snacks. Thank you.
There is school for ABS on Monday, October 12th.
The days are getting colder. Please send your child to school with weather appropriate clothing. Layers are best as it usually warms up quite significantly during the day.
Our outdoor whiteboards have arrived at ABS! Thank you for installing these outside our classrooms so we can now bring our learning outdoors.
Our student foldable chairs arrived last week. We do not need any more beach towels at school. Thank you.
Have a great weekend.
Warmly,
Maria, Justine and Carah
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