Week of September 8, 2025

Our First Day of First Grade

 Please Note

- The first few weeks of school are important for setting expectations and learning our classroom routines and procedures. Students thrive in environments where they feel comfortable and know what is expected of them. I encourage you to have expectations and routines at home as well. It is a goal of first grade to help your child become more responsible, organized, and independent.

- Please check your child's "Home Folder" with them every night. They can empty out any papers that were completed in school.  If anything needs to be sent to school, notes or homework worksheets for example, please place it in the folder.  Our 'H' and 'R' copybooks "live" in their Home folder.  This folder should be returned to school along with their copybooks and book pouches each day.

- Homework is assigned each day and should be completed daily, not weekly like in kindergarten.

-Back to School Night for grades 1-4 is this Thursday, September 11th, at 6:30.  If you can not make it, just let me know.  Everyone will be provided with the information digitally as well.

-Our class has gym on Wednesdays, and library books are due on Mondays.

- Mystery Reader will be on Mondays at 2:00.  Here is the Mystery Reader Sign-Up.  Each family can sign up twice (if you wish).  If you cannot make it during any of these time slots, or if they are full, please let me know so we can work out a time that is convenient for you. You may choose to have your child help you pick out the books for you to read, or you may keep it a ‘mystery’ and choose the books yourselves.  Please plan to read for about 20 minutes or so.  Younger siblings are welcome.  Treats and gifts are NOT permitted.  Thanks for your cooperation. We look forward to your visit!

- Here is a link to our schedule and class list.

- Here is a link for September Craft Club if you are interested.  Craft Club is on Tuesday afternoons.  We complete a craft, have snack, do our homework, and enjoy some outdoor play.

- Please email me with any questions or concerns :)

-Have a great week!

Homework

Monday

Complete worksheet, both sides.

Read books in Book Pouch

Practice reading number words from reading  copybook

Tuesday

Complete worksheet, both sides.

Read books in Book Pouch

Practice word cards

Wednesday

Complete worksheet, both sides.

Read books in Book Pouch

Practice word cards

Thursday

No homework

Back to School Night at 6:30

A Peek at Our Week

Religion

We will be learning about the story of creation and how we were all made in the image and likeness of God in Chapter 1. We will also learn about how God made each of us unique!

Reading

We will start our reading series with the Foundations and Routines unit.

Math

This week we will focus on writing numbers and number words. We will also work on putting numbers in order and filling in missing numbers and counting forwards and backwards by 1’s.