October 2025 Newsletter

Important Dates:

Oct. 1: Late Start

Oct. 13: Indigenous Peoples & Immigrants Day - No School

Oct. 15 Late Start

Oct. 20-23 Bookfair

Oct. 22: Parent/Teacher Conferences

Oct. 23: Parent/Teacher Conferences

Oct. 24: No School

Oct. 31: Parade and Fall Celebrations 2:30-3:30

How to Help at Home

Practice the Take Home activity that is sent home from our Skills book. Please practice tricky words. Be sure to have your child read at home daily. Ask questions about what your child is reading, and have your child show you where in the text he or she found the answer to your questions. Your child can practice his/her math skills at home by completing the Home Links sent home from our Math curriculum. These activities are a great practice from the lesson done in the classroom.

What we are learning

CKLA Skills

Students will be starting Skills Book 2 “Gran” In this unit we will work on common proper nouns. The students will learn about the long vowel patterns with the “Magic E”

CKLA Knowledge

The students have started Unit 3 “Different Lands, Similar Stories”. In this unit we will be identifying story elements (characters, plot, and conflict) while sequencing events in these stories. The students will be comparing and contrasting these stories throughout the unit. After Unit 3 we will begin Unit 4 “Early World Civilizations.

Writing:

Students are learning to write about comparing and contrasting Fairy Tales and Folktales by using a Venn Diagram.

Social Studies:

Students will be exposed to different places and cultures around the world within our reading unit. Some countries and cultures include: Ireland, France, England, and Japan. In addition, this month we will be learning about Bullying Prevention. The students will have lessons on: Recognizing Bullying, Reporting Bullying, Refusing Bullying, and Bystander Power.

Math:

Students are getting familiar with number models as a way to show change in a number story. They are learning more counting strategies and refining their addition and subtraction fluency.

Reminders

Conferences:

Conferences are in October. We will be sending a Remind message with a link for you to sign up through “Sign up.com ”

Attendance:

If your child is absent, late to school, or is signed out early, they miss out on valuable instruction. Please keep your child in school all day. Our district attendance goal is 95%. Little Fort's first grade attendance percentage since the start of school is 94.1%.

Mrs. Winbush

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Mr. Schroetter

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