Mrs. Paolucci:
Room 12 has begun an exciting year of First Grade. We are learning behavior expectations through our
PBIS (Positive Behavior Intervention Strategies) program. These behaviors allow us to facilitate a positive
learning environment and experience.
Our ELA time closely follows The Daily Five model. Each student is working on strategies particular to
their individual needs including building reading and writing stamina. Students Read to Self, Partner Read,
Word Work and Spelling, Listen to Reading and Work on Writing. While the students are working on their
particular strategies, staff is working with guided reading and writing groups at appropriate levels to strengthen
their specific skills.
Math workshops are practiced each day to develop fluency in addition and subtraction. Students work
in groups with teachers and at centers with manipulatives and IPADS, to practice number identification,
quantity discrimination and word problems.
Miss Almeida: Almost two months of our school year has already come and gone; time flies when you’re
having fun! Whether writing, reading, or exploring a math concept these kids are excited about their learning.
I’ve enjoyed reading your child’s small moment pieces. Being able to read each budding writer’s work as
memories are recounted has allowed us all to share a piece of our past and find commonalities in our
experiences. Writers have begun to work in partnerships providing one another with constructive feedback.
Words were brought to life through word choice and attention to detail. Their writing has shown that it is not
the big but the small moments that count!
In mathematics, we are wrapping up our unit focused on addition and subtraction within 10. Developing your
child’s fact fluency is much more than simple memorization. We’ve learned about flip-flop facts (commutative
property), doubles, sums of ten, as well as a variety of tools and strategies we can use to solve them.
Developing our fact fluency will be an ongoing focus throughout the school year. To practice at ho