October 30, 2017

Hi families!

We had a wonderful red ribbon week at Wellington.  Here are some pictures from our special guests today during our assembly.

Mr. Boles had a serenade from the singers!

Lafayette Basketball coach and 2 players

 Special singing group from UK

Our class enjoying the performance

We have a great week coming up at Wellington.  On Tuesday we will be having a Story book Character day where students can dress up as their favorite storybook character.  

Our Junie B Jones Jamboree is also tomorrow (Tuesday).  We are celebrating the books we have been reading with some fun activities.  If you have any small pumpkins you would be able to donate to our class - we are still 13 pumpkins short for all students to have for our afternoon pumpkin investigation.  We will be measuring, determining if they sink or float, and making estimations about our pumpkins.  This is a fun afternoon of learning for our students!  Thank you all for your help in preparing for this day!

Spelling words:

fast

lend

past

send

sink

blink

who

Sight words:

eat

no

by

under

who

many

Thank you!  Have a wonderful week!

October 23

Happy Monday families!

We're back at it today and learning so much!  In Language this week we are beginning to focus on singular and plural nouns.  For comprehension we're focusing on retelling our stories with partners and will later in the week write about what we have read.  In phonics our skill is short 'u' this week.  We are beginning a new writing piece soon about our opinion.

In math our focus is on using commutative property.  Today we used a balance to make both sides of our equations equal.

Last week we had fun using what we had learned about community helpers and made cut outs of our faces to show what we want to be!

 

 

 

Don't forget it is Red Ribbon Week.  Here is the schedule for the rest of the week:
Tuesday - Wear socks - Sock it to Drugs

Wednesday - Slippers - Don't slip into drugs. (Please bring slippers to change in to)

Thursday - pajamas! - Don't get comfortable with drugs!

Friday - wear red day! 

Our spelling words this week are:

bug

cut

fun

rug

run

hut

live

one

Our sight words are:

could

of

live

one

then

three

Next Tuesday (October 31) will be book character day.  Please note the hand out in folders today for ideas.  We are also celebrating the books we have read so far about Junie B Jones with a fun Jamboree celebration!  We have centers planned for the morning where students will explore activities to help with what they have learned about in reading these fun books in class.
Tuesday afternoon we will be doing a pumpkin investigation.  

If you would like to help our class with some supplies for these fun events - there is a link HERE with some things our class will need for this exciting day!

If you haven't had a chance to sign up for conferences you can sign up Here.  I can't wait to share with you the great work your wonderful kiddos have been doing in class!

Have a fantastic Monday!

Red Ribbon Week reminders

Hello!

I wanted to send out a blog with reminders for Red Ribbon Week - this will be next week (October 23-27).

Monday - Wear sunglasses.  Too Cool for drugs by wearing their sunglasses.

Tuesday - Crazy Socks.  Sock it to drugs - wear wacky socks.

Wednesday - Slipper day.  Don't slip into drugs.   (Please wear normal shoes and bring slippers to change into).

Thursday - Pajama day!  Don't get comfortable with drugs day.

Friday - Wear Red day.

We will have an assembly on Friday the 27 in the afternoon.

thank you!

October 16

Good afternoon families!

Our class is finishing up our writing piece on our personal narratives.  They are having a great time sharing a fun adventure they have been on and telling their friends about their writing.

This week we are beginning to work on the short e sound - like in the word egg, leg, beg.  Spelling words are:

leg

egg

met

bread

head

fed

use

help

Our weekly sight words are:

again

help

new

there

use

In comprehension we are working on retelling our story.  When students read their baggie books at night, ask them what happened in the beginning, middle and end of their story to help their comprehension of the story.


In language we're talking about nouns and will finish our week by creating Noun Town to share in the hallway.




Weekly reminders:

Pictures are tomorrow!  Dress your best and show beautiful smiles!

Fall festival is FRIDAY!  It is a fun night for all families!  I hope everyone can attend.




Next Week is Red Ribbon Week - there is information in folders about the events for each day.
We are celebrating Story Book Character day on October 31.  Students are encouraged to dress as their favorite character to celebrate.  That day (October 31) will also be our Junie B. Jamboree!



I have some events planned for the students and will send our  a volunteer spot shortly to ask for help from families.  In the afternoon we will be doing a pumpkin investigation and I'll be asking for donations of SMALL pumpkins - picture will be included.



Please check email for the volunteer spot information for that fun event!

Have a wonderful week!

September 29, 2014

Good afternoon families!

We've had such a fun week in our classroom.  Here are some pictures of our hard work and learning this week....

Ever wonder what your kiddos mean by buddy reading? Here are some friends reading with a buddy!  

Our students did a write the room this week where they were reading sentences and telling the type of sentence.

writing the room!

Students writing the room!

Have your heard your student mention read to self time?  Here is a student enjoying a book to herself!

Our sweet teddy bears had a sleepover at school last week!  Some of them decided to get on our computers!

.....and read our books.

...........and even have their own reading groups at our reading table!

This teddy bear was working on successmaker before I arrived at school I think!

Reading some books together....

This stuffed animal was being the teacher when I got to school last week!

Enjoying our lunches outside with our teddy bears!

Picnic outside!

We all did so wonderful on our spelling test this week!  We've been working hard on the short o sound this week and learning lots of new words.  Thank you for your work at home!  

Our awesome field trip to Junie B. Jones will be on WEDNESDAY October 4.  

Our fall break will be next Thursday and Friday (October 5 and 6).  It's a great time for the kiddos to relax and enjoy the fall weather, which is hopefully sticking around!

For next week our sight words will be:

jump

move

run

two

Our spelling words are:

two

skin

frog

swim

grab

move

drip

spill

In phonics we will be working on blending sounds at the beginning of our words.  (No spelling test next week since it's a short week!)

Have a great weekend!

Evans Orchard Field Trip and Weekly announcements

Hello families! 

We are moving into a busy week at Wellington!  This week we are learning about pets and how we take care of those special friends.  We are also continuing to grow as readers working on skills to help us decode words.  Please continue to read at home to help students work on decoding.  Today we learned about "chunking" our words and if we know the word 'an' we can read the words like 'span' 'grand' and 'hand'.  

In our pictures below students were working on "one to one" reading, making sure we are tracking our words.  We have special reading fingers to help us slow down when we are reading! 

Our spelling words for the week:

pull

glad

come

plan

flag

slip

flip

blip

Our sight words for the week:

be

good

pull

come

Our sight words are important to help us become better readers! We practice these each day at school by finding the word in a sentence, writing the word in the air and sometimes writing the word with our bodies!  Students also practice through word work and work on writing activities using the words in sentences.  

Reminders for the week:

Wednesday is GRANDPARENTS day!  If students have family that is coming for lunch please let them know to come at 10:30, we will do a special activity with our families at that time, then students can go to lunch at 11.  If they do go to the book fair with family, I ask that they all be back in our classroom by 11:45 (our lunch is 11:00 -11:25, so hopefully this gives families time to go to the book fair and return to class).  

Thursday (September 22) we will be having a Teddy Bear day!  Students are invited to bring with them a stuffed animal that is special to them.  We will be doing activities with our teddy bears throughout the day and our teddy bears will be spending the night at school!!  (Please note this should not be something new, just a stuffed animal special to your student that they would not mind being without for the night!

Our spelling test will be on Friday so practice words each night!

Please read baggie books nightly to practice reading with your student!  Return books on Friday.

We had such a wonderful day Thursday at our field trip!  Evans Orchard was very accommodating and welcoming to our first graders!  Wellington ended up being the only school there on Thursday so we were so lucky for the weather to hold off and the day was great!

We learned about how they pick apples and carefully add them to the conveyor belt for sorting.

Students and parents listening to the presentation.

Mrs.Long and Mrs. Head - We had a great time going down the slide!

Friends playing in the corn.

Friends playing hide and seek in the tire maze.

 More Corn play

Our class picture!

Jumping out some energy!

Friends after lunch.

Racing the go-carts!

Feeding the animals!

Have a great week!