Mrs. Mueller's 1st Grade: Newsletter 2-19-16

Mueller Moments

1st Grade * Bauer Elementary * Mrs. Holly Mueller * hmueller@hpseagles.net

February 19, 2016

Bandaid Competition: Next week Bauer will be collecting bandaids for the Helen Devos Children's Hospital. In celebration of Cambri Jewell's last chemo appointment (Caden Jewell's sister, a Bauer student), the Jewells are asking people to join them in giving back to the hospital by donating FUN bandaids that the patients can choose from after their chemo ports are removed. In an effort to collect as many boxes as we can, we are making this a competition for Bauer. The class that brings in the most boxes of bandaids will win Sprinkles Donuts. (I really love Sprinkles Donuts- let’s win this one!) If you would rather donate money (I understand how busy life can get), that is great too. We will go out and purchase bandaids with any money raised.
IMPORTANT: All band aids must be medication and latex free. CURAD® and Nexcare™ are some of the best brands for latex free options. Thank you so much for considering this!

Reading: This week we continued our work to figure out words. We learned that we can “dot and dash” words when we don't know what they are (ask your child to show you what this means with a word in their WEB book). We also worked to make sure we understand what a sentence says before moving on to make sure the words we read made sense.
Writing: We started our “Authors as Mentors” narrative unit this week. We read some mentor texts, and studied what the authors did in the books. These “noticings” will inspire us as writers in this unit. We started to think of topics to write about. Thank you to the families that were able to help their child think of topics. If you did not complete this yellow form yet, please send it in this week.
Math: We began unit 5 this week. You may have noticed with the homework your child brought home that this unit makes a big jump. We now have mixed story problems - addition and subtraction, with both unknown partners and unknown totals. Comprehension of the story is key with these problems. If your child is struggling with these at home, ask your child to close his/her eyes to picture the story and what is happening. This can help to determine what the problem is asking.
Social Studies: We began our geography unit this week, and started practicing our addresses. We learned about our continent of North America, and our country of the United States. We will continue this week as we talk about our state, city, and street.

For your children,

~ Holly R. Mueller

Mrs. Mueller's 1st Grade