What's Happening in Room 209?
Submitted by Mrs Nelson on Fri, 2007-09-28 21:09.
Friday, September 28, 2007
 Dear Parents,
  It is hard to believe but we say goodbye to September on Sunday. The days have flown as we journey through this first grade year. We have accomplished many tasks this week. Among them:
-charting the words that have the sound of a, as in apple,
-charting the sound of sh, as in shoe,
- introducing the spelling words and playing concentration with them,
-singing and chanting the spellings of the new words,
-starting our Nursery Rhyme unit and partner reading the rhymes with our friends,
-making sheep as a response to the rhyme of Mary Had A Little Lamb,
-continuing our work as scientists by observing and making notes about our adopted tree in the playground,
-listening for rhymes after reading Is Your Mama a Llama?,
-sharing insights into the story (above) with our Making Meaning partner, and
-using a nursery rhyme to identify the beginning, middle and end of a story.
 The children have worked very hard at improving their printing and the content of their stories as they journal nearly every day. Â
  In math, we have worked on before and after a given number, telling time to the hour, using rulers, organizing classroom objects that are bigger/smaller than a ruler, organizing dominoes by numerical order and of course, our old favorite game, Rolling the Dice for 50. We are working more frequently with money and time in the every day math program. Please have fun with your child as you go over the values of coins, or the hour in the day at which we do important things like rising, eating, going to school and going to bed.
  Thank you parents for so many things, like reading with your child every night to have consistent practice. Thank you for helping with the spelling during the week. Thank you for helping your child to feel self-confident and capable. Your help is invaluable.
  I am so appreciative of those cardboard tubes and 35 mm film canisters. As you get more, will you please keep sending them in?
Thanks, everyone and have a great weekend.
All the best,
Maureen Nelson
 Dear Parents,
  It is hard to believe but we say goodbye to September on Sunday. The days have flown as we journey through this first grade year. We have accomplished many tasks this week. Among them:
-charting the words that have the sound of a, as in apple,
-charting the sound of sh, as in shoe,
- introducing the spelling words and playing concentration with them,
-singing and chanting the spellings of the new words,
-starting our Nursery Rhyme unit and partner reading the rhymes with our friends,
-making sheep as a response to the rhyme of Mary Had A Little Lamb,
-continuing our work as scientists by observing and making notes about our adopted tree in the playground,
-listening for rhymes after reading Is Your Mama a Llama?,
-sharing insights into the story (above) with our Making Meaning partner, and
-using a nursery rhyme to identify the beginning, middle and end of a story.
 The children have worked very hard at improving their printing and the content of their stories as they journal nearly every day. Â
  In math, we have worked on before and after a given number, telling time to the hour, using rulers, organizing classroom objects that are bigger/smaller than a ruler, organizing dominoes by numerical order and of course, our old favorite game, Rolling the Dice for 50. We are working more frequently with money and time in the every day math program. Please have fun with your child as you go over the values of coins, or the hour in the day at which we do important things like rising, eating, going to school and going to bed.
  Thank you parents for so many things, like reading with your child every night to have consistent practice. Thank you for helping with the spelling during the week. Thank you for helping your child to feel self-confident and capable. Your help is invaluable.
  I am so appreciative of those cardboard tubes and 35 mm film canisters. As you get more, will you please keep sending them in?
Thanks, everyone and have a great weekend.
All the best,
Maureen Nelson
