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On the first day of school I will send home an information sheet for you to fill out so I have your most up-to-date contact information and I will add you all to my email list then. I will use email for any daily communication and will try to update the blog weekly with any pictures or curriculum updates. Please always make sure I have your most up-to-date email address. Please also feel free to share our Blog with any family members who might be interested in learning about what your child is doing at school.
On our blog, I will include calendar updates, both from the whole RBES school, and from our class. You can click on the calendar pages and sync it to your own Google Calendar app, if you use it. I will also add photos throughout the month. Please feel free to click and save photos of your child.
The home page is where I will post all updated information. I will try to include as many curriculum updates as possible. I will be using this blog as an update for parents, so you can hear what topics and outcomes we will be learning about each week. Also when you are talking to your children about their days you will know some specific information about what we might be learning. We will also be using the Blog in class, sometimes students will help me decide on which information to share with you and also help me pick out which pictures to use.
September is about learning routines and building relationships. We will be touring the school, learning how to line up, how to get safely to and from the bathroom, and how to participate in class.
In Language Arts, we will be doing some review and assessments of the upper and lower case letters and sounds. Each student will be introduced to the class with the "All about ME!" bags coming home during the first week of school. Students will send 4-6 items that fit into a paper bag to show the class. This helps us get to know each other. With these activities, we will interview the students, ask questions, write sentences and focus on each child's names. Our class names will be the start of our word wall. By doing one classmate a day the students will get very familiar with common words in sentences, and we will make a class book for the students to share with you at home. We will also be taking a look at the difference between fiction and non fiction books. Also in Language Arts we will be starting our "Read to Self" portion of the Daily 5. Students will learn how to pick the proper books ("Good Fit Books") and we will practice reading alone and building our stamina.
Each week we will also be doing a word sort. In September we will be focusing on sorting words according to the beginning consonants We will sort these words differently everyday and then on Friday they will be sent home for you to keep and practice if needed.
We will also be doing some daily printing practice in September.
In Math we will be starting our patterns unit, and talking about numbers 1-10. We will be making some class posters about all the ways we can show a number: tally marks, number lines, dice, written word, unit cubes...I'm sure the students will show me other ways that I haven't thought of, too!
In Science we will be talking about Fall and start our Creating and Mixing colors unit.
Social Studies in September will be learning about our classroom and school community.
