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
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