Reading A-Z Information

In your child's report card envelope today, you should have received a small paper with the Reading A-Z web address and your child's username and password to access Reading A-Z (also called Kids A-Z). Throughout the summer, your child can access this website using this information. This is a app we use in class for students to listen to reading, read books, record their readings, and take quizzes on the books they've read. In the classroom, students read books at their independent reading levels. However, for summer, I have opened up the "Bookroom" which allows your child to access any of the books at any level. Thank you for supporting your child's reading at home!

Items Coming Home This Week

1MW first graders will be bringing home items throughout the week. Please look for the following in your child's backpack:

1. Words Their Way Workbook: This is a workbook that we have used throughout the year to learn about spelling patterns. Some students work through the first book while some are starting the second  book or even in the middle of the second book. No matter where your child is at on the spelling continuum, you can help them throughout the summer to learn more spelling patterns. Your child can show you how we use the sorts!

2. I Can Read Folder:  We have used this binder to collect poems we read during our poetry unit. Students can read the poems throughout the summer.

3. Handwriting Workbook:  Students have practiced how to form capital and lowercase letters in order to produce legible writing. There may be some empty pages from when students were absent or pages we skipped in favor of others.

 4. Portfolio:  On Wednesday, after your child shares his/her portfolio with you during the publishing party, you may take the portfolio home so your child doesn't have to fit it in their backpack at the end of the year.

5. Headphones:  Our iPads have been collected, so we won't need headphones.

6. Realistic Fiction Stories: For our Realistic Fiction Writing Unit, we practiced writing a few stories before we began working on the final one will will publish and share this week. These stories will be coming home soon!

7. Yearbook:  I'll give students some class time to autograph each other's yearbooks. I think that they will be distributed Monday afternoon, so we will spend time on Tuesday autographing so they can take them home Tuesday afternoon.

Finally, students will not be bringing home reading books this week so I can have time to inventory and organize them this week.

Hope to see you Wednesday at 9:00 for our Publishing and Portfolio Sharing Celebration!

Thank you!

Dear Families,

I wanted to thank you all for partnering with me to provide a successful first grade year for your children. I have enjoyed sharing my classroom with such wonderful, enthusiastic students who love to learn. Next school year, I will be returning to Denver, Colorado, after spending a lovely two years in Muscat. I will miss all the TAISM families and friends I have met that have made my stay in Muscat a memorable one. I am lucky to have met you all, and I wish you the best of luck next year and always!

Sincerely,

Michelle