Updates April 30, 2018

Hi families!

Here are our spelling words for the week:

bear

careful

scare

wear

care

tear (rip)

pear

share

spare

rare

I cannot tell you all how proud of your students I am!  Our end of the year is quickly approaching and I am so excited about all of the growth every student has made in our class this year! We took our MAP reading and MAP math last week, and WOW!  I was so incredibly proud of this class.  They all took the test seriously and really tried their best, which is all I ask them to do every day!

We are beginning a project where we will build a habitat for an animal they have chosen to research.  Today, we started brainstorming ideas for each groups "zoo" and what they would need to make their zoo.

In math, we are working on money.  We've been discussing how much each coin is worth and beginning to use the money to make different amounts.  (ex. how can you make $.31 - students would show the different ways to make that amount). 

The first grade PLAY is coming up next week!!! May 10 will be our performance at 6:30 pm.  If you know you are not able to attend please let me know as soon as possible.  Our class will be wearing GREEN shirts (these can be plain or have a small design) if your student does not have one, let me know and I can get one for your student.  The play is all about animals and students have been practicing the songs with Mrs. Bossworth in music.  We're beginning to practice on the risers this week to prepare for the performance.  We hope you can attend!

There are some dates coming up for Wellington Events I want to let you know about:

* First Grade play May 10 at 6:30
* May 14 the chorus will be singing at the Legends game!
* No School for Election day May 22
* May 24 - Talent show at 6:30 pm
* No school for Memorial Day May 28
* Wellington FUN day May 29!! 
* First Grade End of the Year Awards program (ALL PARENTS INVITED) on May 31 at 10:15 in our classroom.  We have an end of the year picnic immediately following awards.

Thank you all!  Have a wonderful week!





Here are some Zoo pictures!!!  Enjoy!

Elephants!!

Gorilla

Sweet first grade friends!

Fiona!

Picture with Fiona!

Manatee!

Snakes!!! AHHH!

Playing around!

Train rides!

Flamingos were a hit!

March 7, 2018

Hi families!

I hope everyone was able to enjoy the few nice days we had before the chill came in last night! 

For our field trip tomorrow please have students wear their blue Wellington shirt, or another Wellington shirt from Kindergarten is great too.  We will be back to school in time for lunch at school, just a little later than our usual lunch time so we will eat in the classroom.  Students can bring their normal lunch bags.

Spelling words:
joy
boy
coin
enjoy
money
toy
join
spoil
voice
above


Sight words:
build
above
knew
money
toward


In math we're working on 2 digit subtraction this week.  87-15 = ___ is an example.  Students are really doing great with this!  Continue to check students agendas at night - we write a simple homework question there so you'll see some things we are working on in class!

In writing, students have started their new writing piece where they are writing a fictional narrative.  These are looking very interesting!

Here are some great pictures from our wonderful field trip to the Explorium last week!  Our class had a wonderful time!

Kovan and Daxton visiting Space!

Jacob recording Urijah for the news!

Some of our boys playing in the water

Cami in the giant teeth!

Our class picture!

Cami and Julian on the horse

Judge Cami presiding!

Dr. Julian checking on the baby

Dr. Julian checking on his patients.

Dr. Julian showing us the ear.

Check ups are important

Using the topographical map

Playing in the water

Girls using the map!

Using the map

Zoe and Zeynabu

Jacob on the horse!

Jianna hanging out!

Mia with the horse.

Nickole in the giant teeth!

Ruby digging for fossils

Zach and Rylan

Zeynabu using the cart

Ellie and Zoe

Judge Zoe on duty!

Now nurse Zoe checking on the babies!

Busy Zoe milking the cow!

We will be going on one more field trip in first grade...............to the ZOO!!!  I had previously let some parents know the date was May 4 but please note this date has CHANGED!!  We will now be going on APRIL 19.  We need lots of volunteers for this and would love to have parents help chaperone.  I have a link below with some volunteer responsibilities for you to look at before committing to chaperoning with us. 

HERE is the link - please read all questions before sending in.  We would love to have as many volunteers as possible!

February 21, 2018

Hi families!

In your students folder they have two permission slips.  One is for a field trip we're taking to see Elephant and Piggy and the other is for a guest reader who will be bringing with them a dog (see the yellow form for more details).  We're excited for these upcoming events in First Grade! 

Continue to read each night at home - your students are making so much growth with their reading and writing!!  Sight words are also so important to practice.  Here are some tools for practicing sight words at home:

I have a great new website with skills to practice in both reading and math.  Students will get their log ins tomorrow so if you'd like to work on some skills at home this will be a great place to visit for students.  Click HERE to access IXL - students will have their log in information tomorrow to bring home with them.

I love seeing pictures of my little readers at home so I thought I would share some that parents have sent me!  Send me pictures and I'll add them to our blog!

Ben hard at work on his reading!

Zoe reading her stack of books :)

Here are some photos of some of our young mathematicians hard at work breaking apart numbers during calendar!

Ellie breaking apart 111.

Addy breaking apart 111.

Julian breaking apart 110.

Urijah breaking apart 110.

And some photos from our Valentine celebration last week!

 

 

 

 


Weekly spelling words:
born
core
chore
score
shore
roar
soar
board
right better


Weekly Sight Words:
began
better
guess
learn
right
sure


Have a super week!!