Moving Along

     Middle of October already!  Can you believe it?  We are moving right along in first grade. (I  know the title of this blog still says second grade, I'm going to leave it that way for a while simply because it's a lot of work to figure out how to change it and I just do not have the time.  I'm sure you all hear that.)

     I haven't had a chance to introduce to Miss Sarah.  Sarah Kenton is a high school senior/track star who helps out in our class from 11:30 to 12:30 each day.  It's fantastic to have an extra set of hands and she's invaluable in giving students a little extra help they may need to get through a lesson.  How lucky are we?  She is awesome.

     We have been reading up a storm and I cannot believe how far we've grown already.  I hope you are taking time each night to read with your child.  It makes a world of difference.  You reading aloud or him/her to you, it's all good.

     Students have been super busy.  We've been adding by counting up.  Ask your child to explain how they circle the largest number and use their fingers to count from there.  It's working like a dream.   Next stop, subtraction.  I hope it goes as beautifully.

     We learned about Christopher Columbus and made maps of our wing of the school.  Students made fact webs in groups of an animal and have been doing lots of writing.  I'm so proud of them.

     Halloween is sneaking up on us.  What is more fun than Halloween to a child?  The excitement is exhausting contagious and I will tap into it to motivate our little ghosts and goblins.

     Here are some pictures from the last few weeks.

reading CVC words (consonant, vowel, consonant)

sorting short vowel words

reading CVC words with a friend

dice rhyming game
(rhyme at home)

-at word search

     I hope to write again soon......BUSY, BUSY, BUSY