Ms. Gieseke's Community of First Graders

Reading 20 minutes per day.  No need to submit minutes, but we strongly encourage you to make reading a priority. Reading comprehension strategy: Help your child read a story and then retell the events from the story in the correct order while they are focusing on the characters, setting, and events. As well as, making and confirming predictions. 
 

**Please let me stress that this is optional practice for your student, not required.  We do ask for students to read 20+ minutes every day to develop their love for reading.  

Although we have optional review, we very seriously encourage you reading with your children, reading to your children, and reading as a family.  We have learned that the public library has a wonderful app to access amazing books online called Libby. You can access the app information at this link:  Libby Link   By using your public library account, your students can log in and choose from thousands of books online for free to read to you, you to read to them, your family to read together, etc.  Audio books followed along also are a great source to develop this love for reading with your child as they follow along in the book.  
1- Optional Math Practice: 

• The family letter below provides review in math that you can do with your student.  Please read the letter and invite your child to share what they know about the concept by doing the activity together.

We are learning this standard this week:

Tuesday 10/29 is favorite decade day.  
Also a reminder that Thursday is an early release day and our Halloween Parade.  Because of this, the lunch room will be serving pizza on Thursday.  We will be collecting the count for pizza Tuesday in our classroom.  Thank you for letting your student know if they will be having pizza on Thursday, so they can tell me by Tuesday morning.

Just a reminder that it is really cold now and students need to have warm coats.  Recess feels really long without a warm coat and mittens.  Please remember to send a coat for your student.  Thank you for your help with this.  

Halloween Parade and Party:  Parade from 9-10am.  Party from 11:30am-1:00pm. No blood and gore on costumes.  If you can volunteer to assist during the party we would love to have you!  Or if you can provide supplies for the party please let us know.  We will have cupcakes or cookies and a small sucker as  treat at the party if it is NOT ok for your student to have these please let me know as this is part of the permission form that you signed earlier this year.  
Please email me at lgieseke@questac.org

Reading 20 minutes per day.  No need to submit minutes, but we strongly encourage you to make reading a priority. Reading comprehension strategy: Help your child read a story and then retell the events from the story in the correct order while they are focusing on the characters, setting, and events. As well as, making and confirming predictions.