I can't believe its almost February! We are expecting more snow this week and colder temperatures. Please make sure to send your kiddo with the appropriate gear for recess.
We have had some very sick kiddos in class. Please remember to keep kiddos with a fever at home. They must be fever free for 24 hours before coming back to school.
We will be celebrating the 100th day of school on Tuesday, January 31st. Students may dress up as 100 year olds. No need to go out and buy costumes, just use whatever you can find at home. This is always such a fun day. We will still keep to our normal routines, but will add in some extra fun! Please make sure your child has brought their 100 edible items for our 100s Day Stew no later than Tuesday morning.
In reading, we are learning about how we get our food. This week is full of non-fiction texts.
We will be wrapping up our personal narrative writing this week and go back to opinion writing. The students will write about the favorite part of themselves.
In math, we will continue to work on finding 10 more and 10 less of a given number. We will also continue to work on adding within 100 using various strategies. We will start by adding 1-digit numbers to 2-digit numbers. Third quarter math is tough stuff!
We finished our first Project Lead the Way module! We had tons of fun and are now light and sound experts!
Have a great week!
Sunday, January 29, 2017
Sunday, January 22, 2017
Hope everyone had a great weekend. I am excited to get back to school!
Make sure to send back signed report card envelopes this week. If you would like to set up a time to discuss your child's progress, just send me an email with a few different times that would work with your schedule and I will make it work.
There will be a few papers regarding the 100th day of school coming home in your kiddo's Wednesday folder. Please be sure to take a look at them. Can you believe we are getting close to the 100th day of school?!?
On Tuesday, please send your kiddo wearing red, white, and blue. Dr. Henry will be taking pictures of each class and will be making a book for Mr. English. He will be deploying in the coming weeks.
We will be having an assembly Friday afternoon.
Fun Friday is working out so well! The kiddos had a blast last week frosting cookies and getting to work with students in the other classes. We had a big decrease in the number of students working on expectations. Hopefully, that number continues to drop!
In reading, we will be working with non-fiction texts. We will be learning how life is different than it was long ago. We will be doing lots of comparing and contrasting with our texts.
We had many interruptions during our math block last week and did not get as far as we should have. This week we will comparing numbers, 10 more, 1 more, 10 less, and 1 less of a given number.
Wishing you well!
Make sure to send back signed report card envelopes this week. If you would like to set up a time to discuss your child's progress, just send me an email with a few different times that would work with your schedule and I will make it work.
There will be a few papers regarding the 100th day of school coming home in your kiddo's Wednesday folder. Please be sure to take a look at them. Can you believe we are getting close to the 100th day of school?!?
On Tuesday, please send your kiddo wearing red, white, and blue. Dr. Henry will be taking pictures of each class and will be making a book for Mr. English. He will be deploying in the coming weeks.
We will be having an assembly Friday afternoon.
Fun Friday is working out so well! The kiddos had a blast last week frosting cookies and getting to work with students in the other classes. We had a big decrease in the number of students working on expectations. Hopefully, that number continues to drop!
In reading, we will be working with non-fiction texts. We will be learning how life is different than it was long ago. We will be doing lots of comparing and contrasting with our texts.
We had many interruptions during our math block last week and did not get as far as we should have. This week we will comparing numbers, 10 more, 1 more, 10 less, and 1 less of a given number.
Wishing you well!
Sunday, January 15, 2017
TESTING!
We do not have school on Monday, January 16th. Teachers are going to a presentation about Generational Poverty at West High in the morning and then working in our buildings in the afternoon.
We will be starting Unit 3 Week 3 in our reading curriculum. Here are the skills we will be working on:
Weekly Concept: Tales Over Time
Essential Question: What is a folktale?
Oral Vocabulary: tale, hero, eventually, foolish, timid
Phonics/Spelling: -ed, -ing/ soft c, g, dge
HFW: any, from, happy, once, so, upon
In writing, we will continue to work on Personal Narratives. The kids are getting better each day! Practice makes progress.
In math, we will begin 10 more, 10 less and 1 more, 1 less. We've spent weeks working on writing our numbers 1-120, addition strategies, recognizing patterns on a hundreds chart, and great than/less than. They are well prepared for the task at hand, and I have no doubts they will take this new challenge head on!
Just a few reminders:
Snow clothes are getting pretty smelly. Please think about washing. The kids eat before they play at lunch, so they wear most of their gear to the lunch room.
Also, our attendance has been very poor since coming back from Christmas break. Please remember to call the office if your child will not be attending school.
I will be finishing up testing math and reading this week. Make sure you kids are getting adequate sleep!
I will be gone Thursday and Friday so we will have a guest teacher.
Wishing you well,
Wendy Martin
We will be starting Unit 3 Week 3 in our reading curriculum. Here are the skills we will be working on:
Weekly Concept: Tales Over Time
Essential Question: What is a folktale?
Oral Vocabulary: tale, hero, eventually, foolish, timid
Phonics/Spelling: -ed, -ing/ soft c, g, dge
HFW: any, from, happy, once, so, upon
In writing, we will continue to work on Personal Narratives. The kids are getting better each day! Practice makes progress.
In math, we will begin 10 more, 10 less and 1 more, 1 less. We've spent weeks working on writing our numbers 1-120, addition strategies, recognizing patterns on a hundreds chart, and great than/less than. They are well prepared for the task at hand, and I have no doubts they will take this new challenge head on!
Just a few reminders:
Snow clothes are getting pretty smelly. Please think about washing. The kids eat before they play at lunch, so they wear most of their gear to the lunch room.
Also, our attendance has been very poor since coming back from Christmas break. Please remember to call the office if your child will not be attending school.
I will be finishing up testing math and reading this week. Make sure you kids are getting adequate sleep!
I will be gone Thursday and Friday so we will have a guest teacher.
Wishing you well,
Wendy Martin
Monday, January 9, 2017
Shout out to our class--I am so proud of the kiddos in our classroom. We had a wacky week this past week and the kiddos were on their best behavior and we were able to have lots of fun! Behavior-wise I think it was our best week yet! Our wacky week consisted of lots of indoor recess (fingers crossed we get to go outside this week) and a few schedule changes. Our class has come so far since the beginning of the year and I certainly saw their maturity this past week.
Second quarter comes to an end on Friday. That means we are half way through first grade! WOW!
Monday, January 16 is a no school day for students. Teachers will be in meetings-UGH! January 16 is also Martin Luther King Jr. Day. We will be spending the week learning about MLK and diversity.
You received a letter about Fun Friday last week. We practiced expectations last week and this week is the real deal. The first grade teachers will be tracking students' behaviors throughout the week. Students who need some extra practice meeting expectations will get some extra help with them on Friday afternoon. The students who have met the expectations for the week will participate in a Fun Friday activity.
Our class attendance is SCARY! After being in school for almost half a year we are still only in the 30 day club. That means we have only had 30-some days of perfect attendance and no tardies. When your kiddo misses school they miss out on learning. First grade is very hands on and many things we do I cannot send home. I can send home worksheets that cover the material, but it is not the same. Research shows first graders need the concrete, hands-on experiences to gain an understanding of the concepts and make learning meaningful.
Speaking of attendance and tardies...we begin our winter benchmark testing on Monday. We will be testing in the mornings next week. A majority of the assessments are one on one, so the rest of the students will be doing literacy centers. We will not have reading groups this week. My hope is to be able to get all of the testing done this week, so we do not have to take anymore instructional time the following week.
In writing, I will be assessing informational, opinion, and narrative samples. This will guide the writing instruction for next quarter.
I am astonished at how quickly the students were able to understand place value. This week will will start comparing numbers by looking at how many tens and ones are in a number and work with the terms greater than, less than, and equal to.
Here's to another great week and hoping we can go outside for recess!
Second quarter comes to an end on Friday. That means we are half way through first grade! WOW!
Monday, January 16 is a no school day for students. Teachers will be in meetings-UGH! January 16 is also Martin Luther King Jr. Day. We will be spending the week learning about MLK and diversity.
You received a letter about Fun Friday last week. We practiced expectations last week and this week is the real deal. The first grade teachers will be tracking students' behaviors throughout the week. Students who need some extra practice meeting expectations will get some extra help with them on Friday afternoon. The students who have met the expectations for the week will participate in a Fun Friday activity.
Our class attendance is SCARY! After being in school for almost half a year we are still only in the 30 day club. That means we have only had 30-some days of perfect attendance and no tardies. When your kiddo misses school they miss out on learning. First grade is very hands on and many things we do I cannot send home. I can send home worksheets that cover the material, but it is not the same. Research shows first graders need the concrete, hands-on experiences to gain an understanding of the concepts and make learning meaningful.
Speaking of attendance and tardies...we begin our winter benchmark testing on Monday. We will be testing in the mornings next week. A majority of the assessments are one on one, so the rest of the students will be doing literacy centers. We will not have reading groups this week. My hope is to be able to get all of the testing done this week, so we do not have to take anymore instructional time the following week.
In writing, I will be assessing informational, opinion, and narrative samples. This will guide the writing instruction for next quarter.
I am astonished at how quickly the students were able to understand place value. This week will will start comparing numbers by looking at how many tens and ones are in a number and work with the terms greater than, less than, and equal to.
Here's to another great week and hoping we can go outside for recess!
Tuesday, January 3, 2017
Welcome back!
Happy 2017! I hope you had an enjoyable holiday break. I certainly did! It was full of family, friends, sleeping in, and relaxing! It is going to be tough waking up this week!
We are welcomed back to school with some COLD weather. Be sure to dress your kiddo for the weather. If it is below zero we will stay inside for morning walk and recess.
We will be easing back into school mode by reviewing behavior expectations. It always seems like this is necessary after the long holiday break and a good way to start out the last half of the year. Second quarter is quickly coming to an end. This year is flying by.
Before break each student completed a reading assessment. This assessment tells me what reading level each kiddo is reading at and what skills we need to work on (fluency, retells, main idea, decoding, etc.). After looking at reading levels and skills that need improvement I have rearranged some of the reading groups. We will start the new reading groups.
In reading, we are starting Unit 3. Our essential questions is, How do we measure time?" We will start back up with reading groups and hopefully not have fallen too far behind over break. Did your kiddo do Mrs. Anderson's reading challenge? I can't wait to see!
After taking a break from personal narrative writing for some Christmas activities we are back at it. We will work on finishing up the piece we started before Christmas.
In math, we will focus on counting and writing numbers 100-120. We will also be playing some review games to help us review 10s and 1s.
Stay Warm!
We are welcomed back to school with some COLD weather. Be sure to dress your kiddo for the weather. If it is below zero we will stay inside for morning walk and recess.
We will be easing back into school mode by reviewing behavior expectations. It always seems like this is necessary after the long holiday break and a good way to start out the last half of the year. Second quarter is quickly coming to an end. This year is flying by.
Before break each student completed a reading assessment. This assessment tells me what reading level each kiddo is reading at and what skills we need to work on (fluency, retells, main idea, decoding, etc.). After looking at reading levels and skills that need improvement I have rearranged some of the reading groups. We will start the new reading groups.
In reading, we are starting Unit 3. Our essential questions is, How do we measure time?" We will start back up with reading groups and hopefully not have fallen too far behind over break. Did your kiddo do Mrs. Anderson's reading challenge? I can't wait to see!
After taking a break from personal narrative writing for some Christmas activities we are back at it. We will work on finishing up the piece we started before Christmas.
In math, we will focus on counting and writing numbers 100-120. We will also be playing some review games to help us review 10s and 1s.
Stay Warm!
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