Dear First Grade Parents, We have a fun filled month planned! The students are looking forward to the school-wide Harvest Festival on Friday, October 11th. We will read books about Halloween, pumpkins, bats. We will read the book, "Stellaluna", to tie into our Scholastic News magazine. Grammar: The students will focus on making sure all the sentences they write have a noun and a verb to make it complete. Comprehension: We will focus on what the problem is in a story and notice how they are solved. Word Wall Words: about also after Phonics : We will start learning phonograms, two or more letters that when written together, make one or more different sounds. This week we will learn the sounds that SH and TH make; ship, mash, this, three. Reading Workshop : In Reading Workshop we have learned how readers improve their reading by using good habit. Next week, students will learn about how to break bad habits. They will also use partner reading time to help