Happy Sunday evening, families! I hope this message finds you all warm and cozy in our homes as we await this next blast of winter. Just a few reminders about tomorrow:
IT'S 100's DAY!!!!
Don't forget to bring your bag of 100 things (remember they can be 100 different things, or 100 of the same thing!).
Don't forget to wear clothing with numbers, too!
Also, don't forget to return you Flat Stanley blue paper with the name and address of the person you want to send your flattie to.
Finally, if you haven't returned your conference time request sheet please do so ASAP. I am trying to finalize our schedule and am looking forward to seeing each one of my families!
Thanks so much. Stay warm and be safe!
Here is our Specials Rotation for the week, too. Remember those library books on "C" days!
Monday = A Tuesday = B Wednesday = C Thursday = D Friday = A
Miss Beverage's First Grade!
Soaring like an EAGLE!
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
The First Full Week of the Year!
Monday = A Tuesday = B Wednesday = C Thursday = D Friday = A
Hello families! We have almost made it to our first full week of school in 2011! No snow days, no holidays, just time for learning and LOTS of catch-up from all of these missed days. Be sure to check tomorrow's newsletter carefully for updates on many of our upcoming activiites. Some important dates and things to remember:
1. Friday (tomorrow) is MOVIE NIGHT! First grade is sponsering tomorrow's movie night. We will be showing Shrek Forever After. It starts at 6pm and ends at 9pm. Hope to see you!
2. Monday January 31 is 100's Day! Can you believe we've been in first grade for nearly 100 days? In honor of this big day, the kids have been given an assignment. They need to try and wear clothes with numbers on them on Monday as well as bring their bag of 100 items (a note went home two weeks ago, with another reminder earlier this week).
3. Conference slips are due back ASAP. I have received almost all of them back, but am missing a few. Please let me know when a good time is to meet and talk about all of the wonderful things your child is doing!
4. Valentine's Day party is Monday February 14.
5. Conferences are February 16-17.
6. No school February 18-21!
Have your child tell you about all of the amazing things we've been learning about in first grade. Here is a list of conversation starter-themes:
*Martin Luther King Jr.
*Penguins
*Venn Diagrams
*Mr. Munch
*Matter
Let me know if you have any questions. Hope to see many of you tomorrow at movie night!
Hello families! We have almost made it to our first full week of school in 2011! No snow days, no holidays, just time for learning and LOTS of catch-up from all of these missed days. Be sure to check tomorrow's newsletter carefully for updates on many of our upcoming activiites. Some important dates and things to remember:
1. Friday (tomorrow) is MOVIE NIGHT! First grade is sponsering tomorrow's movie night. We will be showing Shrek Forever After. It starts at 6pm and ends at 9pm. Hope to see you!
2. Monday January 31 is 100's Day! Can you believe we've been in first grade for nearly 100 days? In honor of this big day, the kids have been given an assignment. They need to try and wear clothes with numbers on them on Monday as well as bring their bag of 100 items (a note went home two weeks ago, with another reminder earlier this week).
3. Conference slips are due back ASAP. I have received almost all of them back, but am missing a few. Please let me know when a good time is to meet and talk about all of the wonderful things your child is doing!
4. Valentine's Day party is Monday February 14.
5. Conferences are February 16-17.
6. No school February 18-21!
Have your child tell you about all of the amazing things we've been learning about in first grade. Here is a list of conversation starter-themes:
*Martin Luther King Jr.
*Penguins
*Venn Diagrams
*Mr. Munch
*Matter
Let me know if you have any questions. Hope to see many of you tomorrow at movie night!
Monday, January 17, 2011
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Winter Waddle
Wednesday = A Thursday = B Friday = C
Hello families! Welcome back after our surprise snow days! I hope you all stayed warm with your kiddos and enjoyed a little extra time with them. We braved the cold today and returned to room 111. I was so happy to see my friends walk in this morning with their red cheeks! We did a lot of journaling this morning about our snow days. Then, we read the story The Snowy Day. We used the character in the book, Peter, and compared what Peter did on his snowy days with the things that we did during our snow days. The kids created another Venn Diagram comparing themselves and Peter. It was fun to see what activities they shared with our book character today.
We also read book 2 in the Tacky series. Today was Three Cheers for Tacky. The kids think that Tacky is a halarious character. Ask your child to tell you what kind of an animal Tacky is and what makes him so funny. They may also want to recite the cheer from today's story. Ask them to preform Tacky's funny cheer or his friends' proper cheer. Check their retention of this story by asking them to reflect and re-tell you about it.
We introduced the vocabulary word "FACTS". We began our list of penguin facts, too! Have your child tell you three facts about these unusual birds.
In math, we jumped into learning about 10's and 1's. This is a tricky concept for many children. We learned how we need to group things in sets of 10 and tried to figure out how many 10's are in the number 34, and also how many ones are in that number. Help your child at home by giving them a large group of similiar objects (marbles, Q-tips, cottonballs, raisins, etc.) have them group the items into sets of 10. The left-overs (those that do not have enough to make a 10-set) will tell them how many ones are in their number. For example, if I had two sets of 10 Q-tips each and 6 left over my number would be 24. See if they can group the items and then tell you their number.
Your child is bringing home a Reading Rewards packet today. Please be sure you read it and fill out the enclosed forms. It is a program that helps our kids recieve our TIME for kids magazines at no cost for parents. You do not have to buy anything (yay!) just fill out 7 of the forms. Thank you in advance for your support!
Have a wonderful and warm evening. Be safe if you have to venture out and let me know if you have any questions.
Hello families! Welcome back after our surprise snow days! I hope you all stayed warm with your kiddos and enjoyed a little extra time with them. We braved the cold today and returned to room 111. I was so happy to see my friends walk in this morning with their red cheeks! We did a lot of journaling this morning about our snow days. Then, we read the story The Snowy Day. We used the character in the book, Peter, and compared what Peter did on his snowy days with the things that we did during our snow days. The kids created another Venn Diagram comparing themselves and Peter. It was fun to see what activities they shared with our book character today.
We also read book 2 in the Tacky series. Today was Three Cheers for Tacky. The kids think that Tacky is a halarious character. Ask your child to tell you what kind of an animal Tacky is and what makes him so funny. They may also want to recite the cheer from today's story. Ask them to preform Tacky's funny cheer or his friends' proper cheer. Check their retention of this story by asking them to reflect and re-tell you about it.
We introduced the vocabulary word "FACTS". We began our list of penguin facts, too! Have your child tell you three facts about these unusual birds.
In math, we jumped into learning about 10's and 1's. This is a tricky concept for many children. We learned how we need to group things in sets of 10 and tried to figure out how many 10's are in the number 34, and also how many ones are in that number. Help your child at home by giving them a large group of similiar objects (marbles, Q-tips, cottonballs, raisins, etc.) have them group the items into sets of 10. The left-overs (those that do not have enough to make a 10-set) will tell them how many ones are in their number. For example, if I had two sets of 10 Q-tips each and 6 left over my number would be 24. See if they can group the items and then tell you their number.
Your child is bringing home a Reading Rewards packet today. Please be sure you read it and fill out the enclosed forms. It is a program that helps our kids recieve our TIME for kids magazines at no cost for parents. You do not have to buy anything (yay!) just fill out 7 of the forms. Thank you in advance for your support!
Have a wonderful and warm evening. Be safe if you have to venture out and let me know if you have any questions.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Thursday Tidbits
It's snowing in our classroom! We finished our symmetrical snowflakes and made them "glisten" today. See if your child can tell you what "glisten" means and ask them to tell you what we added to our snowflakes to make them fancy. Today, we read a different version of "The Mitten" that we had read yesterday. We talked about how folktales have been passed down and how parts of the stories get changed slightly when they are re-told. Today we read Jan Brett's version of The Mitten and had a great time finding out things that were the same between the two versions and also finding the things that were different. In order to organize our findings, we introduced Venn Diagrams and the kids created their own Venn Diagram to compare the 2 versions. This is a tricky concept, but they did great. We went on to compare members of our classroom family and look for ways in which we are different and the same. See if your child can remember you how Eli and Kye were the same or different, or how David and Ms. Beverage were the same or different. Continue this at home by having your child create their own Venn Diagram comparing the similarities and differences between themselves and a sibling or parent. It's a great excercise to get your child thinking on a higher level!
In math we continued to do lots of review. Our first grade goal for this quarter is to write our numbers in order to 100. We did some candy cane math to practice and many of our children earned their 100 prize today. Ask your child to tell you about it.
In art we learned about primary and intermediate colors. Check your child's understanding by asking them to tell you about each one.
Tomorrow wraps up our short welcome-back week. Be ready for the cold air that is supposed to be arriving and be sure your kids are bundled up next week!
Have a great evening!
In math we continued to do lots of review. Our first grade goal for this quarter is to write our numbers in order to 100. We did some candy cane math to practice and many of our children earned their 100 prize today. Ask your child to tell you about it.
In art we learned about primary and intermediate colors. Check your child's understanding by asking them to tell you about each one.
Tomorrow wraps up our short welcome-back week. Be ready for the cold air that is supposed to be arriving and be sure your kids are bundled up next week!
Have a great evening!
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Welcome to 2011!
Thursday = A Friday = B
Happy New Year in room 111! Our first day of the new year together was wonderful! It was so great to have all of my friends back. They were ready to rock this morning and stayed energized all day! We welcomed our new friend, Kassidy, today. Everyone was so loving and kind to her. I was very proud of each one of them. We did a lot of journaling about our winter break. It was so fun to hear about all of their adventures and treasures! It sounds like Pillow Pets, DS's and Snuggies were hot items this year! Way to go.
Our story today was an old Ukrainian folktale called, The Mitten. Your child listened to the story, used visualization to imagine the story, learned several new vocabulary words such as "trudged" and worked on sequencing events in this old tale. Tonight they are bringing home their yellow mitten with an assignment on the front. They should be able to use their mitten and the character squares inside of it to re-tell the story. The concept of re-telling is crucial improving your child's reading comprehension! Please encourage them to re-tell or summarize the important events in all the stories they read with you at home. During their re-tell tonight, encourage them to include details about the boy, Ivan, in our story.
Ask:
What was Ivan doing when he lost his mitten?
Where did Ivan lose his mitten?
How do you think Ivan felt when he lost his favorite mitten? Why do you think that?
Why did the mouse tell the owl that he could come in if he had good manners?
Questions like this will help your child remember important events from this story and strengthens their comprehension skills, which will help them a great deal in the upcoming semester.
In math today we did lots of review to make sure our brains hadn't turned too mushy over break! I am happy to report that we were all sharp as tacks! We worked on our January calendar and used a number chart to solve big addition problems
(92 + 8 = ?).
This afternoon we worked on making fancy snowflakes and it took some muscle power! We haven't unveiled our creations yet, but tomorrow we will see the result of our hard work.
Welcome back! I am so excited for this semester with your child. As always, let me know if you ever have any questions or if you need anything. Happy New Year!
Happy New Year in room 111! Our first day of the new year together was wonderful! It was so great to have all of my friends back. They were ready to rock this morning and stayed energized all day! We welcomed our new friend, Kassidy, today. Everyone was so loving and kind to her. I was very proud of each one of them. We did a lot of journaling about our winter break. It was so fun to hear about all of their adventures and treasures! It sounds like Pillow Pets, DS's and Snuggies were hot items this year! Way to go.
Our story today was an old Ukrainian folktale called, The Mitten. Your child listened to the story, used visualization to imagine the story, learned several new vocabulary words such as "trudged" and worked on sequencing events in this old tale. Tonight they are bringing home their yellow mitten with an assignment on the front. They should be able to use their mitten and the character squares inside of it to re-tell the story. The concept of re-telling is crucial improving your child's reading comprehension! Please encourage them to re-tell or summarize the important events in all the stories they read with you at home. During their re-tell tonight, encourage them to include details about the boy, Ivan, in our story.
Ask:
What was Ivan doing when he lost his mitten?
Where did Ivan lose his mitten?
How do you think Ivan felt when he lost his favorite mitten? Why do you think that?
Why did the mouse tell the owl that he could come in if he had good manners?
Questions like this will help your child remember important events from this story and strengthens their comprehension skills, which will help them a great deal in the upcoming semester.
In math today we did lots of review to make sure our brains hadn't turned too mushy over break! I am happy to report that we were all sharp as tacks! We worked on our January calendar and used a number chart to solve big addition problems
(92 + 8 = ?).
This afternoon we worked on making fancy snowflakes and it took some muscle power! We haven't unveiled our creations yet, but tomorrow we will see the result of our hard work.
Welcome back! I am so excited for this semester with your child. As always, let me know if you ever have any questions or if you need anything. Happy New Year!
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Are you ready????
Wednesday = D Thursday = A Friday = B
Hi friends! I hope this post finds you all doing great and ready to come back to school tomorrow! I am so excited to see each one of you and hear about all of the fun and exciting things that you did over winter break. I have some exciting news! Tomorrow we will be welcoming a new friend to our class family! Please be ready to greet our friend, Kassidy, with kindness and smiles. I know you will all help Kassidy feel right at home in her new school and show her what a wonderful place Sunflower is!
We have lots of fun things to learn in 2011. I hope you are rested and ready to come back and see me. I have missed you! I will be waiting for you tomorrow at our door!
Hi friends! I hope this post finds you all doing great and ready to come back to school tomorrow! I am so excited to see each one of you and hear about all of the fun and exciting things that you did over winter break. I have some exciting news! Tomorrow we will be welcoming a new friend to our class family! Please be ready to greet our friend, Kassidy, with kindness and smiles. I know you will all help Kassidy feel right at home in her new school and show her what a wonderful place Sunflower is!
We have lots of fun things to learn in 2011. I hope you are rested and ready to come back and see me. I have missed you! I will be waiting for you tomorrow at our door!
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