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!!

February 8, 2018

Hello families!

I sent out an email earlier today with information about our Valentine's day celebration.  If you would be available on Wednesday February 14 to help with some activities we would love to have some helpers.  There are also some supplies we will need for our activities, if you would be able to pick up some of these items it would help our class greatly!

If you would like to make a Valentines box with your student that is great but if you don't want to we will be making a valentines sack for students to use if that is preferred.  I'll have white paper bags available for kiddos to make their valentine bag on Wednesday.

Here is the link with more information SIGN UP information.

Our class had a FUN day painting our life size penguins earlier this week!  Here are some of our pictures.....................

We're using a new reading program at school and students have access at home now too! HERE a link for students.  There is a password - if students can't remember their at home let me know and I can print them another copy of their passwords.  This is a very interactive program that is working on skills we have used that week or the previous week at school.  It has been a great hit in the classroom so I think students will be excited to use it at home too.

We will take our spelling test tomorrow so please remind students to study their words so they are prepared for our test.  Don't forget to read their baggie books nightly and return on Friday so they'll have a new book for the next week.

Thank you all for your wonderful support!  This is such a wonderful group of kiddos to work with!

January 21, 2018

Hello!

I had a few more pictures to add over the weekend!  Enjoy!

Cami making snow angels and going down the snow covered slide!

Daxton and his sister sledding!

Julian's snow angel and snowy clubhouse!

January 19, 2018

Hello families! 

We just wrapped up a 2 day week because of our crazy Kentucky weather!  And today its sunny and warming up!  Thank you parents for sharing these fun pictures of your kiddos - I know you'll enjoy seeing your friends pictures this weekend.

 Ben having some fun with a friend and doing some sledding!

Ellie got in some extra practice time on her karate skills!  Way to go Ellie!

Florencia did some sledding with her family!

Jace's family went to the caves for their extra long break!  

Fun family pictures!

Kovan did some cooking and sledding in the snow!

Zoe doing some snow experiments!  I am thinking a future scientist in the making!

Zach having some fun in the snow!!

Ruby and her sister sledding!

Thank you all for sharing your fun snow day adventures!  Next week we should hopefully get in a full week.  We're working on our penguin unit in reading and we start learning how to tell time the middle of next week.  It's a fun time in first grade!  Thank you all - have a wonderful weekend!  Hopefully the weather will let us all get outside for some fun!

January 3, 2018

Hello families!  

Welcome back to school!  I hope everyone had a restful and fun holiday break!  The students had a great day getting back into the swing of our routine and it was fun hearing about their fun activities over break!

On your students folders, I wrote a few reminders for what our homework is each night.  We don't have paper/pencil homework, instead students should practice their sight words and spelling words each night.  We take a spelling test on Fridays so daily practice helps them to do their best!  I also send home a baggie book for students to read with you Monday-Thursday (Note I did not send a new book home this week with the shorter week, one will be sent home on Monday!).  We also write an agenda note that is something we have been working on in class to talk with you about.  This helps students to talk about what they have been learning in class and reinforces what we're doing in the classroom.

(We do have new spelling words and sight words this week, but I won't give a test on Friday since we have the short week.)

Spelling words:

mail

chain

play

snail

our

rain

tray

today

Sight words:

about 

animal

eight

give

carry

our

I'm excited to be back with your students!  We begin our penguin unit tomorrow which is always so much for to learn about with students!  

I did want to let you all know I shared some news about my family with students today!  My husband and I are going to be welcoming a new baby to our family this summer!  We're so excited and I was over the moon to share with our class today!

Thank you all for all of your support, this has been a fantastic year and I know it will only continue to get better!

November 27, 2017

Hello families!

We are back at it and learning so much this week!  In language we're working on past and future tense verbs.  Ask your student to tell you a verb in the past tense and then in future tense this week to work on this at work!

In comprehension we're working on cause and effect.  We read a book today called Interrupting Chicken and talked about how the chicken interrupts others so it causes his dad to be tired :)!

In phonics we are learning a difficult skill of using "soft c" where the C makes an S sound in the word - like in mice.  We're also learning about "soft g" that the G makes a J sound.  Working on their spelling words at home is very helpful in learning these skills.  Try having students write their words with their fingers after they tell you the word.  We write our words in the air too to help us!

In math we're working on subtraction word problems and understanding what our word problem is asking.

In writing, we are beginning a how to writing piece, where students are the expert and teaching another student how to do something through their writing!

Spelling Words:

age

ledge

nice

page

rice

wedge

from

once

Sight words:

any

from

happy

once

so 

upon

Pictures from our Red Ribbon Week performance!

Pictures from our Red Ribbon Week performance!

Pictures from our Red Ribbon Week performance!

Pictures from our Red Ribbon Week performance!

Students doing "Write the room"

Next week we are starting a very FUN unit about holidays around the world.  I have a request for some things we will be using to celebrate this unit. If you would be able to take a look and see if you would be able to help our class with some of these items, it would be GREATLY appreciated!  Thank you all for your help!  You can click here to go directly to the sign up.