March has blown in quickly!  Please be sure that you reviewing all of our papers that have gone home.  We are trying to review everything that we have learned in first grade.  We are also having homeowrk so make sure that you are getting it done and turned it also. 

Happy Wednesday!  Thanks to everyone who brought in our Valentine Snacks.  We had a great party.  Don't forget about our upcoming Field Trip on the 24th.  Make sure to bring in your money and permission slip.  *I have also added a new game to our side panel:  Fun 4 the Brain!  We have been playing some of these games at school for review and practice.  You can play at home!

Good Morning!  I hope everyone is doing well.  This week we will continue talking about persuasive writing and begin our animal unit.  Next week is Valentine's Day.  Our party will be on Tuesday.  I will be purchasing an ice cream cake.  If you would like to bring in goodies to go with it, feel free.  We will be snacking all day instead of having a huge "sugar attack" at the end of the day!  Thanks for everything you do for our classroom.

Welcome back!

January has come and gone!  Sorry I have been out of pocket since we returned to school.  This week we are beginning our unit on Persuasive Writing.  It is also the 100th day celebration, as well as, our syllable celebration on Friday!  Don't forget to bring in your snack item for the 100th day of school.  We have also been practicing syllables.  So far we have learned -le, -tion, -ly, ment, and ture.  Make sure you are practicing our reading/spelling rules at home!

Thanks to everyone who came to the program/party yesterday!  It was wonderful!  We would like to wish you a Merry Christmas!  have a wonderful Christmas break!  See you in January.

Red Ribbon Week

Don't forget that this week we will be dressing up for different days.  Monday is Hat day.  Tuesday is Wear your clothes inside out.  Wednesday is wear your favorite sports team jersey.  Thursday is wear your favorite pajamas.  Friday is wear red day! 

Friday is also our "Going Batty" Celebration!  Don't forget to bring in your fruit and gummy bugs/insects for us to eat on Friday!  Check out this video on echolocation!  The kids love it.

Wednesday!

Wow!  We are almost finished with another week.  We have been talking about Christopher Columbus, the 5 oceans, and the 7 continents.  Please make sure that you ask your child about what we are learning about.  If you would like to post a comment about something cool you learned, please feel free to do so!

October is Here!

This week we will be talking about Christopher Columbus.  We will also be starting a unit on graphing.  Bring in these items for us to use to graph with:  Mini Hershey Assortment Candy Bars, Skittles, and M&Ms.  if you would like to make two different kinds of cupcakes of muffins, we would be glad to use those to graph also!

We had a great time learning about John Henry and davy Crockett.  They are folktales.  This week we will be talking about Johnny Appleseed all week.  On Friday we will have our Apple fest!  If you would like to post some information about one of these folktales feel free to do so!

Welcome to a new week!

This week we will be talking about these people.  Post if you know who they are!
              

Welcome Back!

I hope you had a wonderful restful LONG weekend!  I enjoyed my extra day off.  We will be having a short week this week!  No spelling words!  Just continue to review what we have already learned.  We will be learning about Paul Bunyan this week.  Today we completed a Character Sheet on him.  If you are posting, please post a comment about Paul Bunyan!

Ready for another week?

This week we will continue talking about Long ago and Today.  If you are posting please post a comment about what you have learned about the differences of long ago and today.  What is different in the picture?  We will also be discussing how important writing is.  We will be talking about the important things that we do not need to forget when we are writing a story.  Last week we discussed the importance of reading and learned a lot of strategies that will help us be word detectives to figure a word out.  Don't forget to use your reading strategy minibooks and your bookmarks if you are stuck on a word!  Accelerated Reader begins tomorrow!  Get ready to read those books.  Let your mom and dad quiz you on it before you come to school!  See you in the morning!

Hump Day!

Well we have made it thru two weeks already of First Grade.  Your child should be getting into the routine now and settling down.  I hope you are finding everything on our blog to be very helpful.  We had our first Math Test today and everyone made at least a 90%!  That's fantastic.  On the side of our blog you can find some math timed fact games.  This is very good practice for math fact fluency.  Thanks for supporting your child's learning by being an active part in his education!

It's Almost Friday!

We have had a great week so far!  We have really been concentrating on learning the rules and how to be friends.  This book helped us learn that we all are either bucket dippers or bucket fillers.  Ask your child about this book!  Let's all try to be a bucket filler!

What a Fantastic First Day of First Grade!

Today was a very busy day!  However, I forgot my camera!!  I have it packed up with my stuff to take tomorrow though.  We got all of our supplies put away today and mainly discussed our rules.  We did activities that helped us learn the rules for the hallway, restroom, lunchroom, playground, and classroom!  Wow!  We read these The Recess Queen and made a chart with our rules. 

Next we read First Day Jitters.  We discussed what our "Jitters" were for the First Day of First Grade.  We drew and picture and wrote about our First Day Jitters.  We had some great stories for beginning first graders.

I can't wait until tomorrow!  I wonder what book we will be reading tomorrow??

Open House arrived!

My classroom is finally ready for the most part. Of course there are some more things that I want to add but here is a start!

Hello Everyone! My summer is slowly fading away. I am going to get back into the blogging world! I am getting myself ready for a new school year. I will be updating and making some changes to our blog. Please leave a post if you are visiting our page. We only have a few weeks left of summer!

Last Week of School!

It has finally arrived! I am sorry that I have posted in a couple of weeks. You know how the end of the year is! This year has been no different. Busy! Busy! Busy! I will try to post some of the activities that we did. My theme worked very well using The Very Hungry Caterpillar. I will try to post more later!

3 Weeks Left!

It's hard to believe that there are only 3 weeks of school left. We are continuing our unit on The Very Hungry Caterpillar. This week we are eating all of the items that he ate through. Please remember what you signed up to bring and make sure that you get it here the day that we need it. Yesterday we ate fruit salad: 1 apple, 2 pears, 3 plums, 4 strawberries, and 5 oranges!

*Congratulations to 13 of our students who have 100 points and 17 of our students that have 50 points! We had a wonderful parade yesterday throughout the school led by our High School Band. It was awesome!

We have really been reviewing all of the things that we have learned in first grade! Please remind your child that we ARE still in school. Your child is reminded daily of our rules at school: in the classroom, on the playground, in the hallway, and in the lunchroom. We will have another spelling test Wednesday over the same words from last week. As a whole, our class struggled on this test. We did have two 100s! Congratulations to Kalie and KLynn! Everyone else will take this assessment again.