September 15th - 19th

 

Bringing a stuffed animal on Friday was a great reward after working really hard on adjusting to being a 1st grader with all the new responsibilities and expectations that come with First Grade!  It was also fun to READ TO A FRIEND!  A great idea to do at home as well!!

You will know begin to see the Home/School Folders will be the same week after week.  The papers you need to help your child with will be in the front.  Use these papers with the 20 minutes of reading that are required each night.  Make sure they can read all the reading passages that are highlighted with the sound we learned the week before.  Read them everyday for the next week, this will help with reading fluency!  New High Frequency Words come home each week.  These aren't "memorize" words.  We don't "sound" these words out.  Have your child READ THE WORD & SPELL THE WORD.  Keep the cards from week to week and review them!  The "Fast and Fluent" page gives spelling words using the sound we are focusing on for the week ... these words can be sounded out and then write each letter matching the sound they hear to complete the word!  The time you spend with your child at home will greatly benefit them as we BECOME FLUENT READERS this year!!  Please CLEAN OUT the papers in the folder before returning it the following week!!

You are welcome to have your child work in their math books at home!  You can either work on the same lessons we are working for the week ... or go back to the week before to see if your child was able to pick up on the skill we spent the past week working on!!  For some these first lessons are easy - but for others they will need some additional support to get this foundation!  It will always be helpful for a child to get some one-on-one help!!

September 8th - 12th

 

September 1st - 5th

 

SEPTEMBER 5th

(Professional Development Day for Teachers)

August 25th - 29th

 Our FIRST WEEK in FIRST GRADE was awesome!!  I hope your child came home and shared with you some of the fun things we did as we were getting to know each other and our classroom expectations.

We will always remember our FIRST DAY of FIRST GRADE because of all the feels we had that day, but no matter if we were feeling nervous, excited or happy when we got to school ... by the time we had our Jitter Juice and it was the end of the day we all knew we are going to LOVE 1st grade!!

We spent a couple of the day introducing ourselves sharing with the class something we like to do and something we can do.  It is very important to know each other so that we can take care of each other, in fact we talked about "OUR CLASS IS A FAMILY" and just like in each of our families we look out for each other and do what we can to help each other.  We start our days out every morning talking about being KIND and a REALLY GOOD FRIEND!  We feel so lucky that we were all chosen to be in this class this year!

We ended the week with the story of The Rainbow Fish was a perfect was to have a conversation about how if you want a friend, you need to be a friend.  Each one of the kids made a beautiful Rainbow Fish that only ended up with one sparkle scale because he found joy in sharing the other ones!!

COMING UP THIS WEEK!!

(There is no need to send backpacks on the other days!!  If the kids bring a lunch from home or a water bottle, those fit nicely in the cubbies.  Backpacks just take up too much space and are in the way.  Tuesday is the ONLY day the kids will need to bring a backpack with their folder and eventually a library book)

When the folder comes home Tuesday, make sure you pull out the READING PASSAGES to add to your 20 minutes of reading each night!  We have been reviewing all of the SHORT VOWEL sounds. The reading passages will focus on those!!   New High Frequency Words will also be in the folder, right now these should already be familiar to your child and it will be so helpful if they are practicing all of these words now. (We will start adding 5 new words each week!! By the end of the year they are expected to know 195 HFW)

Before we can read, we need to be able to know the letters and sounds those letters represent!!

If your child is struggling with this skill, reach out to me and lets find some things you can be doing at home to help them master this very important skill.

We are going to be focusing on writing the numbers 1 - 100 correctly

Dear families,

 

This year, our class is excited to read with Scholastic Book Clubs! It’s a great way to build up your child’s book collection at home and help them improve their reading skills. And when you shop with Clubs, your orders earn points I can redeem for books and other classroom supplies we need.

 

Here’s how it works: I’ll send home flyers like these throughout the year. If you decide to place an order, you can do that through our class ordering page. Your books will arrive at school about 10 days after I submit our classroom order.

 

By teaming up with Scholastic, we’ll help your child become a more confident, independent reader—and we’ll build a classroom library all of my students are excited to explore!

 

Order due date: 09/05/25
Shop our class page: https://orders.scholastic.com/WT8JF

 

Happy reading!

Janna Wallace
Class code: WT8JF

 

LET'S GET STARTED

                                    

Monday, August 18, 6:00-8:00 pm

Teacher presentations every 30 minutes

in their classrooms, (WALLACE: ROOM 110)

with the last one beginning at 7:30 pm. 

Choose one presentation time to attend

Building will be closed 4:00-6:00 pm

to allow teachers time to prepare. 

If you already have your child's headphones (make sure they are labeled before bringing them) bring those with you on Monday night.  I have a bag ready for each child's headphones & they will know their headphones are here and ready for them to begin school!

Wednesday, August 20

Early Out Schedule

(dismissal will be at 1:10)

for the first three days!

Return the ALL ABOUT ME PAGE

in the Home/School Folder on

Tuesday August 26th.

Wednesday, August 27th

SCHOOL PICTURES

Friday, September 5th

Book Order Due

If you missed these google forms on prior blog posts here is your chance to get them done!!!:)

Please take a moment and fill out this 

FOOD PERMISSION FORM

so that your child can participate in activities 

that have food associated with them for 

the 2025-26 school year!

Classroom Disclosure and Parent Handbook.
On this form you will find links for the Classroom Disclosure and Quest Handbook.  

Once you have read over all of that information please fill out and submit the form.  

This will need to be completed before the 1st day of school.

I am excited to get to know about the students in my class!  

Please fill out this form.