Hi families!
I have been working on getting to know your children more so I can find the best ways to help them be successful in first grade.
I will be switching from whole-group to small-group math daily. I find that with most students, they can focus better and I can give my full attention to every child as opposed to in a whole-group setting.
While I am working with 4-5 students at a time, the rest of the students are completing centers every day. Your child has 5 days, an hour or more each day, to finish 10 centers and 2 bonus centers if they happen to finish early.
Some weeks the centers will be interdisciplinary and have writing, reading, science and social studies, as well as math and others will be mostly math. I try to incorporate skills that the students are learning and/or struggling with at that point in time to strengthen and practice those skills.
You will see a center sheet with the center papers stapled to them every Monday. I grade centers every weekend to make sure your child is understanding and completing their work.
I pushed back the start time of our reading series and am starting that this week. This week your child will bring home the comprehension journal, reading slip, and reading book to complete. Please make sure all three are returned on Friday completed.
The students did a great job on their first math assessment in the classroom. Their next assessment will be approximately Wednesday or Thursday next week, depending on how quickly we get through the next 5 lessons of Topic 2.
Let me know if you have any questions!
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