Mrs. Long's First Graders: Evans Orchard Field Trip and Weekly announcements

Hello families!

We are moving into a busy week at Wellington! This week we are learning about pets and how we take care of those special friends. We are also continuing to grow as readers working on skills to help us decode words. Please continue to read at home to help students work on decoding. Today we learned about "chunking" our words and if we know the word 'an' we can read the words like 'span' 'grand' and 'hand'.

In our pictures below students were working on "one to one" reading, making sure we are tracking our words. We have special reading fingers to help us slow down when we are reading!

Our spelling words for the week:

pull

glad

come

plan

flag

slip

flip

blip

Our sight words for the week:

good

pull

come

Our sight words are important to help us become better readers! We practice these each day at school by finding the word in a sentence, writing the word in the air and sometimes writing the word with our bodies! Students also practice through word work and work on writing activities using the words in sentences.

Reminders for the week:

Wednesday is GRANDPARENTS day! If students have family that is coming for lunch please let them know to come at 10:30, we will do a special activity with our families at that time, then students can go to lunch at 11. If they do go to the book fair with family, I ask that they all be back in our classroom by 11:45 (our lunch is 11:00 -11:25, so hopefully this gives families time to go to the book fair and return to class).

Thursday (September 22) we will be having a Teddy Bear day! Students are invited to bring with them a stuffed animal that is special to them. We will be doing activities with our teddy bears throughout the day and our teddy bears will be spending the night at school!! (Please note this should not be something new, just a stuffed animal special to your student that they would not mind being without for the night!

Our spelling test will be on Friday so practice words each night!

Please read baggie books nightly to practice reading with your student! Return books on Friday.

We had such a wonderful day Thursday at our field trip! Evans Orchard was very accommodating and welcoming to our first graders! Wellington ended up being the only school there on Thursday so we were so lucky for the weather to hold off and the day was great!