Today was a wonderful Monday! Everyone seemed well rested and ready for the week 😊

What is your child learning this week?

Math: We finished up graphing on Friday and we are now moving on to place value. The students took a pretest today and afterwards, they did an introductory practice using manipulatives for making numbers using tens and ones. They did great!

Science/Social Studies: We continued with seasons in Science today, and we are finishing up tomorrow. The students will visit the science lab on Thursday to continue learning about weather. They LOVE the science lab! 💗 In the classroom, we will be moving on to Social Studies on Wednesday, beginning the unit with "Me on the Map." For this unit, the students will need to know their address, so please write their address in their agenda for them to have for this week's activities. Thank you!

Language Arts/Daily 5/Phonics:  The students did a great job with their spelling test on Friday with the L blends. This week in phonics, we are learning the R-blends. In Daily 5, I am happy to say that we have reached 15 minutes of Read to Self stamina today! Only 5 minutes until we reach the ultimate goal of 20 minutes! So proud! The students have been introduced to Read to Someone where they sit and read to a partner. We will be working on this more this week.

Reminders:
-Homework folders were sent home in the purple homework folders today. Please have your child complete the activities and bring the folder back to school with them on Friday.
- Spelling test on Friday!

Important Dates:
- Friday, August 24th: FBI Breakfast
- Tuesday, August 28th: In-school field trip. Wellstar will be talking about tantrums
- Wednesday, August 29th: Early Release Day. Students are released at 12:15.
- Thursday, August 30th: Chick-Fil-A Night. Come out and support our school!
- Friday, August 31st: Grandparent Breakfast and Grandparent Reading Day (grades K, 1, 2)

We made it to another Friday! This week was full of exciting things.

In math, the students are becoming very familiar with graphs, and today we had some fun and practiced our graphing using Skittles! I told the students that Math can be DELICIOUS!

In science, we learned about the types of precipitation: rain, sleet, snow, and hail. We also started talking about seasons and we will continue talking about it on Monday and Tuesday. On Wednesday, we are starting Social Studies and discussing "Where I live"!

In reading, we hit 12 minutes of Read to Self, and our goal is 20 minutes. We will continue reaching this goal next week.

Today we celebrated another birthday in the classroom! Happy, happy birthday!

I hope everyone has a nice and restful weekend 😄

Happy Monday!

It's the second FULL week of school and the students are proving to me that they are getting used to the rules and routines of first grade! 😃

This week in math we are talking about graphing. The three types we are focusing on are bar graphs, picture graphs, and tally charts. The students are doing very well with these and we will continue to practice them throughout the week with various activities.

In science, we are diving deeper into weather and talking about types of precipitation: rain, sleet, hail, and snow. I encourage you to ask your students about these as we continue to learn about them. This week we will also be talking about the four seasons and how different seasons usually have certain types of weather.

In reading, we are working on "Read to Self" which is part of Daily 5. We have been working on our stamina, and seeing if we can read for certain periods of time while we stay in one spot, remain quiet, and focus on reading. So far the students have jumped from 2 minutes to 7 minutes! They are doing great. The end goal is 20 minutes of reading and I know that we can get there. Tomorrow our goal is 8 minutes!

Reminders:
- Homework was brought home with your child today in their purple folder. Please try to have them complete it and turn it in on Friday.
- Spelling test on Friday! Practice the words with your child to help them prepare.

I can't believe it's already been one week since we started school! We have an awesome class and I am so excited for the year ahead.

Today we had our first birthday to celebrate! We enjoyed a birthday-themed brain break dance video along with cupcakes during snack time.

I hope to see everyone at Open House tomorrow at 5:00 :) 

I hope everyone is well rested because it's time for a full week of school! :) 

After only 4 days in the classroom, I can already tell that I have such a sweet class! They are getting along with each other and are constantly helping one another out. They are also already becoming very familiar with rules and routines such as in the classroom, hallway, cafeteria, learning commons, and on the playground. I'm impressed!

Today we started talking about weather and the students were very excited! They have their very own weekly weather graph that we are filling out each day as a class to keep track of the weather. They are also getting the opportunity to predict the weather for the next day. As we dig deeper into this topic, I encourage you to ask your child about the weather each day. Ask questions such as "What is the weather like today?" "What do you think the weather will be like tomorrow?" We will be visiting the science lab this week and I can't wait!

Reminders:

- Open House is on Thursday, August 9th at 5:00! I hope to see everyone there.

- Please provide a snack for your child each day. Our lunch time is relatively late and the students get pretty hungry throughout the morning!

- If there are transportation changes for your child that I need to be aware of, please provide a written note in your child's communication folder. Please make sure to send this communication folder and their agenda with them to school each day.

Our wonderful class :)