Important Dates & Reminders

• September 26th - No School for Students - Rosh Hashanah
• October 5th - No School - Yom Kippur
• October 10th - No School for Students - Indigenous Peoples’ Day
• October 24th - No School - Diwali
• October 28th - 2hr Early Release - End of Quarter
• October 31st - No School for Students - Teacher Work Day
• November 4th - 1st Grade Field Trip to Cox Farms
• Sign up for a parent teacher conference if you have not already done so.
• Make sure your child comes to school with one easy and healthy snack and water bottle every day.
• Contact the attendance office if there is a change to your child’s schedule, including an absence.

Language Arts

What We Learned This Past Month:

Reading

• Building our stamina and monitoring our reading 
• Reading and having conversations with a partner
• Listening to a book and discussing it with our classmates
• Brainstorming an idea, drawing a picture and matching our words to the picture

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

• We will learn about characters’ traits and feelings by noticing what they say and do
• We will write personal narratives. These are stories about small moments that gave us big feelings

Math

What We Learned This Past Month:

• Counting forward and backward to 20 
• Counting by tens and fives
• Learning math games to play independent during math centers

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

• We will begin the first unit of addition and subtraction. Students will learn: 
  • How to make and demonstrate numbers many different ways 
  • How to say and show two values or group are equal 
  • Creating and solving single step addition and subtraction problems within 10

Science

What We Will Be Learning Next Month:

• Learning about how to be a scientist 
• Learning how to plant a class garden

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

• Observing plants and animals 
• How to be healthy and take care of our bodies

Social Studies

What We Learned This Past Month:

• We focused on building our classroom community and establishing routines

What We Will Be Learning Next Month:

• We will learn about Patriotic Symbols of the US 
• We will learn about the state of Virginia and practicing how to locate it on a map 
• We will learn about life in Virginia today, and how it differs from the past