Dear
Families,
We had a busy
week this past week. We finished many of
our beginning of the year assessments. The students worked independently on tasks
while I worked individually with children.
There was some talking but overall the class did well at this task. Many of the papers in your child’s folder
today will be from those tasks. They
were review or following direction type tasks.
I did look over all the papers they did, but I only commented on a few
of them. In your child’s folder are also
all of the morning math problems that we did.
I will comment on those papers every time. We are still working on what my expectations
are when working on the morning math problems.
Eventually these problems will be solved in morning journals.
The children are doing very well in learning the
expectations of independent reading and writer’s workshop. Both of these activities are part of the
Daily 5 that make up our Language Arts time.
I will explain how this works at the Curriculum Night.
Speaking of Curriculum Night, it is at 6 pm on
Wednesday. It is just for parents so
that we can talk about what the children will learn this year and our classroom
expectations. It starts at 6 pm in the
Library. We will talk about general
first grade information there. Then we
will head to our classroom where I will talk for a little longer and answer
questions you have. This is not a time
to talk about your child specifically. I
will have the October sign up for conferences available at that time or we can
meet sooner if need be.
Your children received homework today! It is due Friday. Please keep the homework sheet and send the folders
back tomorrow (Tuesday). After today, homework will come home every Friday and be
due the following Friday.
This will be the last paper newsletter. Starting Friday, I will start post
newsletters on our class website. I will
pass out that information Wednesday night and have computers open so you can
sign up to receive updates when I post something.
See you Wednesday!
Mrs. Berk