Highlights of the Week

Hello families,

Well the first six weeks of school and our focus on learning routines and expectations has been hugely successful. The Fox Kits are demonstrating their understanding of how we engage in schoolwork, how to work independently and in groups, and how to have fun and support each other. They are doing a great job! We will continue to develop these skills throughout the year.

We read many books and did writing prompts based on including others and friendship. We read: One, I'm New Here, Who Are You?, Be Who You Are, and  The Invisible Boy. We also had guest readers, Ms. Sarah and 2 students read a story they wrote together last year!

During readers workshop students continued building stamina with read to myself, read to someone, and work on  writing. They also practiced doing these choices independently while kids took turns meeting with me to do some reading.

In the next weeks I will begin doing some literacy assessments to check in on what skills your child already has for reading accuracy/reading comprehension/sight word knowledge/letter-keyword-sound knowledge and what skills they need to work on. This will help me to meet each child where they are at and provide differentiated instruction during readers workshop.

In math we continued comparing numbers and started representing on paper how we know which number is bigger. We also used videos to help us visualize story problems (word problems) and began to work on solving and representing our thinking on this type of math problem.

We finished up our first FUNdations (word study) unit on letter formation of lowercase letters and reviewing the letter-keyword-sounds they learned in Kindergarten. Knowing these cues helps us in reading and writing words!

In social studies we finished up our formal learning about growth mindset though it is something we talk about and practice all year long. We are also talking about our feelings, how to identify feelings in ourselves, and how they effect our bodies using the "How Does Your Engine Run" ideas of "too low, just right, too high." We brainstormed some strategies of what we could do if our engines are too low or too high to get back to the just right state where we do our best learning.

Dates to Remember:

• October 8 - No School
• October 16 - PTO Meeting
• October 18 - All School Morning Meeting 8:15-8:45
• October 24 - Picture Retake Day
• October 24 & 25 - Early Dismissal 11:00 (activities available with prior sign-up)

Have a great weekend!

❤ Mrs. Fox