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.

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!