Hello October and Breezy Weather!

This week was CRAZZZZY. I feel like even almost 2 months within school, our schedule is still not settled because there’s always something new that pops up that we have to do. We started FIT (flexible instruction time) with the whole first grade last week. FIT is the first 30 minutes of school. What is FIT you ask? FIT the time the whole first grade disburses all at the same time to another first grade teacher’s class and gets ELA or math intervention. We group the kids by academic ability level so they are in the same class with other kids around their level. We do this Tuesday-Friday. Monday is used for a SEL lesson in the classroom which stands for social emotional learning. FIT happens from grades 1-5.

In math this week, we worked on subtraction numbers under 20. We also did word problems.

Frannie had 20 apples. She ate 6 apples. How many apples does Frannie have left? 

Lynn had 18 balls. She lost 14 balls. How many balls did she have left?

During Social Studies, we learned about Christopher Columbus. Ask your child what they learned about his voyage! We are still in the process of completing our Columbus packet.

 Also in Social Studies this week, we talked about the Presidential election. AISD students were asked to vote for a candidate that they want to be president. I kind of thought it was silly to make the kids vote for someone because they’re so young and they truly don’t understand the whole concept but 60 percent of both classes voted for Hilary Clinton. Click on the link below to watch what we watched in class to learn more about the candidates!

 Hilary Clinton

Donald Trump

Kid Friendly Election Video

We talked about how candidates have to go out and campaign to try to convince people to vote for them so we did a fun activity campaigning for ourselves with our own poster.

In VLA, we completed our unit of colors. We studied these words for 2 weeks and took our sound check yesterday. We will have a set of 6 new words starting Tuesday.

 The class received our second class pet on Wednesday. He’s a little guinea pig named Aristotle. The kids love him. To try to convince them to work quietly, I told them he only comes out to play when the room is quiet and it has somewhat worked. haha. We will have him for another week until he returns and we get a new pet.

 In Mrs. Skalaban’s class, the kids wrote spider facts in science. They are hanging on the wall in the back of the room by the bathrooms. Ask your child to share some interesting facts they learned.

Please sign up for eagle fest! We need help running our class booth!

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This week will be a busy week of conferences. On Thursday, we will be going to AHS to watch a play and then Friday is Soaring Skyward Day. Please feel free to join us on the fun Friday.