WOW! What a fast and fun Friday on this Halloween Eve weekend! Thank you to all of the parents who helped make our fall party this afternoon a HUGE success. We had a shape-walk center where we used different verbs to move to the Halloween music. There was a snack station and a craft station. Finally, we had a mummy-wrap relay as well as a pumpkin, eyeball and apple relay too! Your child will be worn out tonight!
You won't believe all of the things that we got accomplished on TOP of the party today, too. This morning we wrote a book about the 12 Days of Halloween. Ask your child to tell you about the page they authored. We talked more about adjectives and found adjectives in a spooky poem about a dark, dark house. We created our own Halloween continuum to order things that were the least spooky all the way to the most spooky for us. We created a pumpkin glyph AND had time to have Power Half-Hour for all of our class members who completed their Power Drills on time. WHEW! It was a wonderful day.
Please stay warm this Halloween night. Be sure your child gets plenty of sleep so that they are ready to come back to school on Monday morning with fun stories and a healthy body. Have a super-duper weekend and I'll see you in November!
Miss Beverage's First Grade!
Soaring like an EAGLE!
Friday, October 29, 2010
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Counting Down to the spooky weekend!
We've had a super-busy day in room 111! Our pumpkin theme continues with today's scientific experiment. We are conducting a pumpkin mold experiment in our classroom. Today our kids made predictions about which pumpkin piece would mold first. Have them tell you about it!
We finished our paper pumpkin patch and it is on display in our hallway for all admirers to come and view. This was a great lesson in working together and brainstorming. Our hard work paid off! Our class pumpkin patch is beautiful and complete with labels to tell about everything we can find in a pumpkin patch! Have your child tell you what part of our patch they were responsible for.
We learned the word "Graph" today. Ask your child to tell you about graphs.
In math, we continue to work on mastering subtraction. The kids are doing awesome! Keep practicing at home with objects around the house. Practice makes PERMANENT!
Here are a few reminders for the remainder of the week:
1. Tomorrow (Thursday) is HAT DAY!
2. Power Drills are DUE tomorrow!
3. Be sure to return your DECORATED turkey feather that went home last Friday! The note is attached with an explanation of the assignment! I have received 5 back, thus far.
4. Our Fall Party is this Friday Oct. 29 from 2:30-3:20. Feel free to come and play/help! :)
Have a great evening!
We finished our paper pumpkin patch and it is on display in our hallway for all admirers to come and view. This was a great lesson in working together and brainstorming. Our hard work paid off! Our class pumpkin patch is beautiful and complete with labels to tell about everything we can find in a pumpkin patch! Have your child tell you what part of our patch they were responsible for.
We learned the word "Graph" today. Ask your child to tell you about graphs.
In math, we continue to work on mastering subtraction. The kids are doing awesome! Keep practicing at home with objects around the house. Practice makes PERMANENT!
Here are a few reminders for the remainder of the week:
1. Tomorrow (Thursday) is HAT DAY!
2. Power Drills are DUE tomorrow!
3. Be sure to return your DECORATED turkey feather that went home last Friday! The note is attached with an explanation of the assignment! I have received 5 back, thus far.
4. Our Fall Party is this Friday Oct. 29 from 2:30-3:20. Feel free to come and play/help! :)
Have a great evening!
Monday, October 25, 2010
Monday Reminders!
Monday = A Tuesday = B Wednesday = C Thursday = D Friday = A
Happy Monday families! We had a perfect PUMPKIN day. We learned so much about pumpkins and the science behind how they grow. We began creating our pumpkin patch diarama and we also created a disected paper pumpkin, labeled with all of the parts. See if your child can name the 5 parts of a pumpkin. I learned something new, myself!
We also had firefighter Aaron come and visit us today. He talked about fire safety and even let us get aboard his cool yellow fire truck. Ask your child to tell you about their visitor. They also have extra homework tonight! As a family, you need to decide on a safe meeting place if you would ever have a fire at your home.
A few friendly reminders for the week:
1. Tomorrow is Camoflage Day for Red Ribbon Week! If you have some camo, wear it and join us in the "FIGHT" against drugs!
2. Our second Power Drill is coming home TONIGHT! Remember, your child has until Thursday to complete it in order to earn their ticket to "Power Half Hour" on Friday!
3. This Friday October 29 is our Fall Party from 2:30-3:25. If you have not already emailed our room rep, please look on last Friday's newsletter and email her at your earliest conveinence. Also, if you signed up to help or supply food at the party, she will be calling you this week! Thanks so much!
That's all for now, friends! Your child has an extra night to practice their sight words. Due to our firefighter visitor and all of our pumpkin work, we didn't have our sight word window today. We will test tomorrow for sure!
Have a wonderful night! Enjoy this fall weather!
Happy Monday families! We had a perfect PUMPKIN day. We learned so much about pumpkins and the science behind how they grow. We began creating our pumpkin patch diarama and we also created a disected paper pumpkin, labeled with all of the parts. See if your child can name the 5 parts of a pumpkin. I learned something new, myself!
We also had firefighter Aaron come and visit us today. He talked about fire safety and even let us get aboard his cool yellow fire truck. Ask your child to tell you about their visitor. They also have extra homework tonight! As a family, you need to decide on a safe meeting place if you would ever have a fire at your home.
A few friendly reminders for the week:
1. Tomorrow is Camoflage Day for Red Ribbon Week! If you have some camo, wear it and join us in the "FIGHT" against drugs!
2. Our second Power Drill is coming home TONIGHT! Remember, your child has until Thursday to complete it in order to earn their ticket to "Power Half Hour" on Friday!
3. This Friday October 29 is our Fall Party from 2:30-3:25. If you have not already emailed our room rep, please look on last Friday's newsletter and email her at your earliest conveinence. Also, if you signed up to help or supply food at the party, she will be calling you this week! Thanks so much!
That's all for now, friends! Your child has an extra night to practice their sight words. Due to our firefighter visitor and all of our pumpkin work, we didn't have our sight word window today. We will test tomorrow for sure!
Have a wonderful night! Enjoy this fall weather!
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Thursday Reminders!
Hi families! Just a quick reminder that tonight is the cookie dough pick-up from our fall fundraiser! If your child sold any cookie dough, you will need to come by school between 5pm-8pm to pick up your order. The boxes are arranged by grade level AND teacher, so should make for easy pick-up. Thank you so much to our PTO for all they do for us! Also, if you come between 6pm-7pm you can enjoy a free taco dinner from our PTO as well.
We worked with a pumpkin theme today! Have your child tell you about their pumpkin subtraction story that they created or about our non-fiction book we read about how a seed becomes a pumpkin.
Looking ahead:
Next week is Red Ribbon week. Each day will have it's own special dress-up theme. A letter will be coming home about it tomorrow, but just for a heads up: Monday is Mix 'n Match clothing, Tuesday is camoflouge clothing, Wednesday is wear Red clothing, Thursday is HAT DAY and Friday is Spirit Day!
Thanks for your continued support at home! We are so excited that ALL of our class members completed their Power Drill homework on time and have earned their way to Power Half-Hour tomorrow! Way to go!
Have a great rest of the day!
We worked with a pumpkin theme today! Have your child tell you about their pumpkin subtraction story that they created or about our non-fiction book we read about how a seed becomes a pumpkin.
Looking ahead:
Next week is Red Ribbon week. Each day will have it's own special dress-up theme. A letter will be coming home about it tomorrow, but just for a heads up: Monday is Mix 'n Match clothing, Tuesday is camoflouge clothing, Wednesday is wear Red clothing, Thursday is HAT DAY and Friday is Spirit Day!
Thanks for your continued support at home! We are so excited that ALL of our class members completed their Power Drill homework on time and have earned their way to Power Half-Hour tomorrow! Way to go!
Have a great rest of the day!
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Wild Wednesday
Check off another busy day in room 111! Our kids have been working hard this week and we have learned SO many new things. Have your child tell you about the chicken eggs we welcomed to our classroom. We are beginning our new science unit on life cycles and will be hatching (cross your fingers) baby chicks.
Today we learned about different ways to end our sentences. We found out that we don't always have to use plain old periods when writing a sentence. We can spice up our writing with exclamation marks and question marks. Ask your child to show you the body actions that go along with each punctuation. They should also be able to tell you telling sentences (period), exciting sentences (exclamation) and asking sentences (questions).
We did a silly sentence today using the letter "O" and we learned a new "o" word. Check your child to see if they can tell you what "ornery" means.
In math we continue to tackle the tricky concept of SUBTRACTION! Check your child's understanding of subtraction by giving them a few different problems. To make it more interesting and meaningful, put your information into a story. For example:
"Ms. Beverage made 12 cookies last night and Charlie ate 4. How many cookies did she have left?"
We have worked a lot with having our brain alarms go off when we hear key words such as "left". Our brains should be telling us that we will need to take-away when we hear this word. Today we have food math and used Goldfish to work through subtraction problems. Continue this idea at home using items around your house such as noodles, popcorn, crackers, m and m's, etc. Food math is fun and offers great hands-on manipulatives for our learning.
In art we began discussing Native Americans and have created several projects to reflect Native American culture. We have used our knowledge of patterning to make paper-woven placements. Have your child tell you about their weaving project. Today we learned the word "SYMMETRY" and began creating our symmetrical Native American False Faces. Ask your child to tell you what symmetry means. They should be able to give you examples of symmetry and non-examples, as well! All of our Natvie American art projects will be on display or used for our grade-level Pumpkin Festival later in November. More information on that to come later...
Finally, I am so proud to announce that EVERY single one of the first graders in my room have handed in their first Power Drill homework assignment! Ya-hoo! They were not due until tomorrow (Thursday) morning and I have ALL of them in my pocession now! THANK YOU SO MUCH for helping your child complete this first homework assignment successfully. They have all earned their way to Power Half-Hour on Friday! Amazing!
Don't forget that tomorrow is a Library day so bring your books back! Have a great evening!
Today we learned about different ways to end our sentences. We found out that we don't always have to use plain old periods when writing a sentence. We can spice up our writing with exclamation marks and question marks. Ask your child to show you the body actions that go along with each punctuation. They should also be able to tell you telling sentences (period), exciting sentences (exclamation) and asking sentences (questions).
We did a silly sentence today using the letter "O" and we learned a new "o" word. Check your child to see if they can tell you what "ornery" means.
In math we continue to tackle the tricky concept of SUBTRACTION! Check your child's understanding of subtraction by giving them a few different problems. To make it more interesting and meaningful, put your information into a story. For example:
"Ms. Beverage made 12 cookies last night and Charlie ate 4. How many cookies did she have left?"
We have worked a lot with having our brain alarms go off when we hear key words such as "left". Our brains should be telling us that we will need to take-away when we hear this word. Today we have food math and used Goldfish to work through subtraction problems. Continue this idea at home using items around your house such as noodles, popcorn, crackers, m and m's, etc. Food math is fun and offers great hands-on manipulatives for our learning.
In art we began discussing Native Americans and have created several projects to reflect Native American culture. We have used our knowledge of patterning to make paper-woven placements. Have your child tell you about their weaving project. Today we learned the word "SYMMETRY" and began creating our symmetrical Native American False Faces. Ask your child to tell you what symmetry means. They should be able to give you examples of symmetry and non-examples, as well! All of our Natvie American art projects will be on display or used for our grade-level Pumpkin Festival later in November. More information on that to come later...
Finally, I am so proud to announce that EVERY single one of the first graders in my room have handed in their first Power Drill homework assignment! Ya-hoo! They were not due until tomorrow (Thursday) morning and I have ALL of them in my pocession now! THANK YOU SO MUCH for helping your child complete this first homework assignment successfully. They have all earned their way to Power Half-Hour on Friday! Amazing!
Don't forget that tomorrow is a Library day so bring your books back! Have a great evening!
Monday, October 18, 2010
Monday Madness
We're back! It was WONDERFUL to have everyone back AND healthy! Yay! We kicked off second quarter with lots of pre-assesment work. The kids did a lot of journaling today about their fall break and it was fun to hear about all of their adventures and activities. At the end of the day, we buddied up with Mrs. Keister's first grade class to begin creating our jack-o-lantern lanterns. They are sure to make our room look spooky and festive for our fall party next FRIDAY OCTOBER 29th!
Today your child's first Power Drill is coming home! Remember, you and your child need to read the Power Drill agreement together and sign the commitment form. THEN, your child has today, tomorrow and Wednesday to complete both sides of their Power Drill. ALL POWER DRILLS ARE DUE BACK ON THURSDAY! If your child returns their homework, they will earn their way to our super-fun Power Half-Hour on Friday. Please help your child be successful by setting aside a few minutes each night to help them complete their homework. Thank you so much for your support. It will pay off for your child, I promise!
Thank you again to all of your who attended last week's conferences! I loved talking to each one of you about your amazing children. If you were unable to attend, I am MORE than happy to reschedule and meet you at your conveinence. Please let me know!
One more thing, if you have pretty fall trees in your neighborhood that are starting to drop their leaves, could you send some in to class? I am wanting to do some fall leaf activities and my trees are not dropping their leaves yet. We are looking for all sizes and all fall colors! Also, if you could start hunting around your work places, neighborhoods, and houses for empty coffee cans we could really use them! Thanks so much for all of your continued support at home. Have a great evening together.
Today your child's first Power Drill is coming home! Remember, you and your child need to read the Power Drill agreement together and sign the commitment form. THEN, your child has today, tomorrow and Wednesday to complete both sides of their Power Drill. ALL POWER DRILLS ARE DUE BACK ON THURSDAY! If your child returns their homework, they will earn their way to our super-fun Power Half-Hour on Friday. Please help your child be successful by setting aside a few minutes each night to help them complete their homework. Thank you so much for your support. It will pay off for your child, I promise!
Thank you again to all of your who attended last week's conferences! I loved talking to each one of you about your amazing children. If you were unable to attend, I am MORE than happy to reschedule and meet you at your conveinence. Please let me know!
One more thing, if you have pretty fall trees in your neighborhood that are starting to drop their leaves, could you send some in to class? I am wanting to do some fall leaf activities and my trees are not dropping their leaves yet. We are looking for all sizes and all fall colors! Also, if you could start hunting around your work places, neighborhoods, and houses for empty coffee cans we could really use them! Thanks so much for all of your continued support at home. Have a great evening together.
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Are you having a fun week????
Hello! I am missing my first graders and thought I would write a quick post to let them know I am ready to have them come back to me. I hope that all of my friends are healthy again and hope that everyone is having a great week of vacation! Thank you to ALL of my parents who attended Parent-Teacher Conferences. I am so thankful for your time and apreciate your dedication and interest in your child's learning! If you were unable to attend your scheduled conference, PLEASE give me a call or drop me an email. I would LOVE to reschedule! You name the time and I will be here. Second quarter kicks off on Monday, so get ready to learn! We have a lot of new things to explore when you come back.
I miss my first graders! Stay healthy and come back safe to me on Monday the 18th!
I miss my first graders! Stay healthy and come back safe to me on Monday the 18th!
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
What a day!
What a wonderful day it was to be at the zoo! We had a fabulous day together seeing all sorts of amazing animals. Your child should be exhausted tonight and I would guess an early bedtime is in their future. I know it is certainly in mine! Have your child tell you their favorite part about our zoo adventure today. A HUGE thank you to all 7 parents who took time out of their day to come along with us. Your company was so appreciated and you helped us make so many wonderful first grade memeories. Thank you!
We were sad to have three class members missing today. Please be sure you are having your child wash their hands more frequently than usual and please continue to help them remember to cover their sneeze/cough. The bugs that are going around already are icky and we are trying to keep our friends healthy.
Remember that tomorrow is our last full day. Friday October 8 is an EARLY DISMISSAL day. Our kids will be dismissed at 1pm. Please be sure you have made the appropriate arrangements.
Conferences are coming up next week. Be looking for your finalized conference time coming home tomorrow 10-7-10. Let me know if you have a conflict with your scheduled time. Otherwise, I will look forward to see you all next week.
Hope all is well at your house. Stay healthy and be sure you talk with your child tonight about our wonderful zoo adventure today!
We were sad to have three class members missing today. Please be sure you are having your child wash their hands more frequently than usual and please continue to help them remember to cover their sneeze/cough. The bugs that are going around already are icky and we are trying to keep our friends healthy.
Remember that tomorrow is our last full day. Friday October 8 is an EARLY DISMISSAL day. Our kids will be dismissed at 1pm. Please be sure you have made the appropriate arrangements.
Conferences are coming up next week. Be looking for your finalized conference time coming home tomorrow 10-7-10. Let me know if you have a conflict with your scheduled time. Otherwise, I will look forward to see you all next week.
Hope all is well at your house. Stay healthy and be sure you talk with your child tonight about our wonderful zoo adventure today!
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