Friday, February 20

We started with the shoe greeting which is probably my students favorite greeting to do. Then we shared about our exciting weekend ahead. It sounds like many fun things will be happening. After that we went off to tiger time. When we got back, we started working on telling time. If you notice, your child is bringing home an analog clock to practice telling time on. First graders are expected to master telling time to the hour and half-hour on both digital and analog clocks This is a really tricky concept so please continue to work on it at home. We will be working on it all of next week as well.

Then we tested our spelling skills on the long o and long u sounds. This also proved to be tricky. Keep working hard on these skills at home to help your child learn these phonetic skills. These skills will carry over into his/her reading. We also talked about the suffixes -y and -ful this afternoon and did a little word sort and writing using words with these suffixes.

Finally this afternoon we did a writing about hot chocolate. We wrote about how, where, when and who with we like to drink hot chocolate. Then we made it into an art project. As a special treat, we enjoyed some hot chocolate while listening to our guest readers. Stay warm and have a great weekend! Remember to check the pages for what we will be up to next week!

Wednesday, February 18

So here are some pictures of our most recent guest readers from our classroom and yesterdays guest reader from the community. Mayor Mike Pingalore joined us and read us a great story about liking ourselves.

 This morning we were able to go watch the Begindergarten students practice their program for their parents. These kiddos were sure impressive to watch!

 And finally, here are a few pictures of the delivery of Valentine's from Friday!

Have a fantastic evening!

Thursday, February 12

Today we got our Valentine's Day bags ready for tomorrow! Everyone is ready for the treats! We also took our Unit 6 math test. We continued to work on the long i and on the crazy digraphs we learned about yesterday. We also started working on the suffixes -er and -est. Have a great night!

Wednesday, February 11

Today we continued to work on comparison story problems in math. These are tricky problems but we will continue to work on them for the rest of the year. In reading, we worked on when to use is vs. are and was vs. were. We also worked on the digraphs kn, gn, wr, and mv.

Yesterday, Dr. Smith came to school to be our guest reader.

We have also had three of our friends read to us so far this week.

Finally, Dr. Jabs came in to talk to us about dental health!

Monday, February 9

So we started our day off with a  handshake greeting to get everyone going! We had a great morning meeting and then we went off to Tiger Time for the first time in a long time. After that we came back and started working on circle graphs and probability. Probability is really tricky to understand so keep working on that at home. Some of the key vocabulary for probability is likely, unlikely, possible and impossible. We worked in pairs to pick out cubes, make a tally chart and use comparison words with our results.

This week we will be working on the long i sound in the CVCe pattern. We are working really hard on this skill and the magic e can be tricky so keep practicing at home too! Everyone is loving the guest reading and we are excited to show all of our hard work!

Please keep sending the reading slips in for every 15 minutes you are reading to your child or that your child is reading. Have a great night!

Wednesday, February 4

Wordless Wednesday

Tuesday, February 3

Today we kicked our day off with morning meeting. We don't have Tiger Time this week due to NWEA testing so we went straight into our math for the day! We have been graphing and this unit is so much fun to teach. Kids love to graph and use graphs. It is really great to see them excited to make graphs.

We finished our morning with our guest reader for the week, Officer Brian Vycital. I love to read month is a really big deal in our building. If you walk down the hallway by the library, you will see a paradise scene that will make you feel like you should be on the beach reading a great book!

Mrs. DeWitte came in yesterday to read and kick-off I love to read month in our classroom. You all received a letter telling you when your child's date to read to the classroom is. If you lose it or need help remembering, let me know! We are rocking the NWEA tests and everyone is making progress! Keep up the hard work!