First Grade

 

Dear First Grade Families,

Welcome to September and happy first month back to school! I am excited and feel so blessed to be your child's teacher this year in 1st grade. We will have a lot of fun when learning and I know we will have an amazing year. I look forward to working with you and your children!
 

Reading: We are continuing to learn good habits readers use and how to solve and sound out words.  We are going to start reading nonfiction and learn the differences between fiction and nonfiction in November. 

Writing: We are wrapping up our unit on small moment writing, but are continuing to focus on capitalization and punctuation, adding details to our writing, using the pictures to bring our point across to our reader, and use the writing process. We will begin nonfiction writing soon in November and will start with learning what nonfiction and fiction differences are as well. We will be using nonfiction books to be our mentor texts as well. 

 

Math: During December, we are learning about addition and subtraction strategies that we can use to solve addition problems (word problems and equations). 



Religion: We are learning about God's creation and the faith He has given us. 

 

Show and Tell: Please have your child select one item to bring in with them Friday for this. Then, if they have something else, they can share it next time! :) I will choose five students for each week and these names will be sent in the email or newsletter for who will be on for Show and Tell each week. I am going to use our class list and it will be in alphabetical order so everyone is able to get a turn equally as well. This is optional too. If students do not feel comfortable doing this, they do not have to bring something in to tell us about. Either way they decide is great! 

On Thursday, December 5th for Show and Tell we will have: Leah,  Hunter, Michael, Aaron, Abby, and Luca

 

Communication is very important. In addition to a weekly newsletter that will have important updates on it, weekly content information, and homework information, which is coming soon, I will be updating this site monthly and frequently.  This will be an important site for you to look at, I will post important reminders, information about the content we are learning about, homework, and pictures of our class. 

Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns as we begin this school year together.  I can be reached at Alexa.Wolf@dor.org

Important Dates:

November 27th-November 29th: Thanksgiving break

Dec. 4th- First Walkathon Wednesday and Parent Teacher Conferences after school

Dec. 6th-No School: Parent-Teacher Conferences

Dec. 11th- AR Night 6pm

Pizza Party Day to be determined. I will send information out as soon as the date is confirmed. Please let me know of any allergy concerns. 

We are having a great year and I truly enjoy working with you and your children.
God's Blessings,
Alexa Wolf