I will admit, this week seemed
really long but we had so much fun getting to know each other and learning all
the rules in first grade. The first couple of days, we read fun beginning of
the school year books. We read Lacey Walker, Nonstop Talker and talked about what a good listener looks like. This year at Summitt, we are implementing something called SEL which stands for Social Emotional Learning. The first lesson was about waiting for our turn and being a good listener. The kids did a good job with this lesson. We played "my turn, your turn" at the end of the weekly lesson. Ask your child to explain the rules to this game :)
We
spent this week exploring the manipulatives in the math center. The students go
to math center once they have completed their math work.
In
science, we did a fun experiment to kick off first grade. Each table had a cup
of water. Then each member at the table put in their gummy bear and we recorded
our observations of our gummy bear. We then predicted what our gummy bear was
going to look like the next day. A lot of the kids guessed that the gummy bear
was going to expand and become bigger and they were right! You can't really
tell that the gummy bears expanded in the picture since it looks fuzzy in the
cup, but the gummies grew almost double the size overnight.
In Vietnamese Language Arts this
week, we focused on saying and identifying colors in Vietnamese. We will
probably focus on colors for the next week.
Please make sure you are checking your child’s folder daily.
There will be lots of letters going home this upcoming week including the first
grade fees. We will also be starting weekly homework!
