August 26, 2019

Specials

Monday - Art

Tuesday - STEM

Wednesday - Technology

Thursday - Library

Friday - Music

Upcoming Events & Reminders

August 27 - Curriculum Night at 6 in the library

September 2 - Labor Day (No School)

September 16-20 - Book Fair

September 17-19 - Tentative Grandparents Lunches.

I will let you know a specific date as soon as possible.

September 19 - PTA Meeting 6pm Library

October 3-4 - Fall Break

October 18 - PTA Fall Festival

October 18-31st - Sprout Fundraiser

October 25 - Report Cards go home

November 1 - SPROUT DAY!

November 5 - Election Day (No School)

November 8 - Tentative date for 1st 9 Weeks Awards

November 19, 20, 21 - Tentative Thanksgiving Lunches.

I will let you know a specific date as soon as possible.

December 19 - Wellington Winter Music Program 1:30pm

Interested in joining PTA? Let me know and

I can send you the correct information!

Please be sure to continue completing and returning all

back to school paperwork. 

Weekly Objectives

I can read, write, and identify words with short i.

I can read, write, and identify words with

double consonant endings.

I can identify a topic for my writing.

I can write my events in order.

I can write a simple sentence (capital and punctuation).

I can count on to add 1 or 2 to a number.

I can correctly write my letters neatly.

Spelling Words

*Please note, we will not begin grading spelling tests until

after Labor Day. However, your child will have

practice spelling tests until then.*

pin

win

hit

sit

miss

kiss

Sight Words

down

out

up

very

Week in Review

What a super week of learning we had last week! We're working on our handwriting, learning correct letter formations. We have started working in our Daily 5 groups with some read to self.

We met with our book buddies for the first time! We meet with third grade buddies once a week! This past week we spent time reading together.

Our first day of school we made magic playdough!  Here is the recipe, it was super simple and so fun!

Here’s the recipe:

1 cup of flour

1/2 cup of salt

2 tbsp. of oil {do NOT use olive oil!!!!}

2 tbsp. of cream of tartar

1 cup of water

(you will also need food coloring)
{this yields enough for about 6-8 students}

Our first day we got out our wiggles with some recess!  Yay for the monkey bars in first grade!

Hope to see you tomorrow night at Curriculum Night!

August 19, 2019

Specials

Monday - Technology

Tuesday - Day 4 - Library

Wednesday - Day 5 - Music

Thursday - Day 6 - PE

Friday - Day 1 - Art

Upcoming Events & Reminders

August 22 - PTA Family Night Wellington Playground 6-7:30pm

August 23 - NO SCHOOL

August 27 - Curriculum Night at 6 in the library

September 2 - Labor Day (No School)

September 16-20 - Book Fair

September 17-19 - Tentative Grandparents Lunches. I will let you know a specific date as soon as possible.

September 19 - PTA Meeting 6pm Library

October 3-4 - Fall Break

October 18 - PTA Fall Festival

October 18-31st - Sprout Fundraiser

October 25 - Report Cards go home

November 1 - SPROUT DAY!

November 5 - Election Day (No School)

November 8 - Tentative date for 1st 9 Weeks Awards

November 19, 20, 21 - Tentative Thanksgiving Lunches. I will let you know a specific date as soon as possible.

December 19 - Wellington Winter Music Program 1:30pm

Please be sure to continue completing and returning all back to school paperwork. 

If you would like to see your child's pictures on the blog, please be sure to complete the online picture permission slip. The link is on the side of the blog or you may e-mail me for the link!

Weekly Standards

I can read, write, and identify words with short a.

I can write to tell a story.

I can correctly write a sentence using COPS.

I can correctly count forward to 30.

I can correctly write capital letters and numbers.

Spelling Words

*Please note, we will not begin grading spelling tests until after Labor Day. However, your child will have practice spelling tests until then.*

man

can

tap

cat

hat

that

Sight Words

does

not

school

what

First Day of School

Our first day back to school was a huge success!  We learned a little about each other....met some of our new staff at Wellington....helped each other....played hard outside...ate a lunch...made some magic and shared lots of smiles!

Play dough for our first graders!  We made a wish for a super year!

And our play dough changed colors!  

It was so fun seeing it change for the students!

Our students got a greeting from our new assistant principals: Mr. Downing and Mrs. Esenbach.

First graders excitement for the monkey bars was contagious!! 

Tomorrow will be even better!  Learning more about each other and growing together.  I know this is going to be a fabulous year in first grade!

Don't forget to click HERE for the picture permission form for our blog.  Any paper work for school can be sent back in students blue folders and we'll get that out tomorrow.

Back to school!

Hello first graders and families!!

Today is my first day back to school, and I'm missing you all!

Parents: I'd love to have you volunteer!  If you are interested at any time HERE is a link for how to volunteer with our classroom.  You must fill this out if you would like to help out!

After you fill that out, I'd love to have you go HERE to let me know how you'd love to help our first graders grow!

I LOVE to put pictures on our blog of your kiddos, but I need your permission of course!  Please use this LINK to give permission for your student to be on the blog.

Here is a picture of our daily schedule.....

If you haven't had a chance to bring by your students supplies, I'll be at school today and all day tomorrow.  I'd be happy to get things ready for our first day if you want to drop things off!  That will make our first morning together run smoothly having their things ready for their day.

I am so excited for a fabulous year in first with your student!  Please don't hesitate to email me if you have any questions at all!  elizabeth.long@fayette.kyschools.us

Welcome to First Grade!

Welcome to First Grade!

I am so excited to be your teacher.  This is my 5 year at Wellington in First Grade, and my seventh year teaching!

A little about me............

Married to Doug..... for 5 years in September!  

We have 2 sweet boys....


This is Reid.  He is almost 3 years old.

                                      This is Hutton.  He just turned one!

Mr. Long and I love traveling although we don't get much time any more!  This is from the Outer Banks a few years ago!

I love to run!  (Although I'm not fast!)  I've completed 6 full marathons and 13 half marathons.  Mr. Long and I have traveled to different states for the marathons: Tennessee, Ohio, Georgia, Missouri, Alabama and Michigan. 

Hutton's first birthday party!

Hutton this summer at his grandmothers house.

Reid and Hutton swimming.

A rare family picture of all four of us!

I love teaching! I spent almost 10 years in event planning before I decided to teach.  I am so happy I made the change, I love the excitement in our students faces and seeing them learn something new every day.  This is going to be a super year in First, I can't wait to get to know your special student and you!

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!