Don't forget we will be celebrating being 100 days smarter tomorrow, January 30. Please help your first grader remember to bring their bag with 100 things and encourage them to wear clothing with numbers on them! We have a fun-filled day of counting and celebrating all of our accomplishments in 100 days together!
This week's Specials rotation:
Monday= A Tuesday= B Wednesday= C Thursday= D Friday= A
See you tomorrow!
Miss Beverage's First Grade!
Soaring like an EAGLE!
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Monday, January 23, 2012
Already Wednesday?!?!
Monday= D Tuesday= A Wednesday= B Thursday= C Friday= D
I am so sorry that both last week and this week have gotten away from me and I didn't update you with all of the things we are working on in room 111. We hit the ground running every morning and I didn't get a chance to stop and fill you in on all of the great things we have been doing!
First, your child should have brought home a Conference Sign Up sheet today. Please check your calendars and return the note to me with your preferred conference time. If these forms could be returned by Friday, that would be wonderful. I will do my best to accommodate every one's schedule.
Did your child bring home a new sight word folder? I hope they told you all about it. Please be sure to practice a list each night with your first grader. I try to test them 2-3 times each week. The words on these lists are critical "have-to-know" words for first graders. Classic practice will help make their recognition automatic.
Did your child come home and tell you about the word "perspective"? If not, be sure to ask them what perspective is. We are focusing a lesson around this important vocabulary word. We have also had some fun changing our perspective and looking at things differently.
This Friday is FIRST GRADE'S Movie Night!!! We are hoping to have lots of kids in attendance. This month's movie is Kung Fu Panda 2. We will be having Tae-Kwon-Do demonstrations, games and of course the movie with a popcorn intermission.
Can you believe that next Monday January 30 is our 100th day of first grade? I can't believe it myself. We will be celebrating this monumental day with various counting activities. A letter will be coming home with more information, but a heads up--the kids are invited to wear clothing with numbers on them (jerseys work great) and they will also be asked to bring a bag of 100 things. The items can all be the same,or they can be mixed. Some ideas: marshmallows, M&Ms, Q-tips, cottonballs, craft sticks, pennies. Small items from around the house work perfectly. Have your child start thinking about their collection now and get a head start on their weekend homework.
Did your child tell you about Randy Nadler coming to visit us yesterday? We got to see a wonderful picture scrapbook for Mr. Nadler's trip to Vietnam. Ask your child to tell you about his visit.
Tomorrow is Library day! Help your child remember to bring back any Library books.
Don't forget to send your conference form back! Also,remember you can access our student reading book online by logging into ThinkCentral.com. The directions to log-in can be found on the bottom right-hand side bar of this blog page. Please help your child to read each and every night. We are in both a critical and monumental stage of first grade this quarter. Extra encouragement and support at home will help immensely!
Have a wonderful evening!
I am so sorry that both last week and this week have gotten away from me and I didn't update you with all of the things we are working on in room 111. We hit the ground running every morning and I didn't get a chance to stop and fill you in on all of the great things we have been doing!
First, your child should have brought home a Conference Sign Up sheet today. Please check your calendars and return the note to me with your preferred conference time. If these forms could be returned by Friday, that would be wonderful. I will do my best to accommodate every one's schedule.
Did your child bring home a new sight word folder? I hope they told you all about it. Please be sure to practice a list each night with your first grader. I try to test them 2-3 times each week. The words on these lists are critical "have-to-know" words for first graders. Classic practice will help make their recognition automatic.
Did your child come home and tell you about the word "perspective"? If not, be sure to ask them what perspective is. We are focusing a lesson around this important vocabulary word. We have also had some fun changing our perspective and looking at things differently.
This Friday is FIRST GRADE'S Movie Night!!! We are hoping to have lots of kids in attendance. This month's movie is Kung Fu Panda 2. We will be having Tae-Kwon-Do demonstrations, games and of course the movie with a popcorn intermission.
Can you believe that next Monday January 30 is our 100th day of first grade? I can't believe it myself. We will be celebrating this monumental day with various counting activities. A letter will be coming home with more information, but a heads up--the kids are invited to wear clothing with numbers on them (jerseys work great) and they will also be asked to bring a bag of 100 things. The items can all be the same,or they can be mixed. Some ideas: marshmallows, M&Ms, Q-tips, cottonballs, craft sticks, pennies. Small items from around the house work perfectly. Have your child start thinking about their collection now and get a head start on their weekend homework.
Did your child tell you about Randy Nadler coming to visit us yesterday? We got to see a wonderful picture scrapbook for Mr. Nadler's trip to Vietnam. Ask your child to tell you about his visit.
Tomorrow is Library day! Help your child remember to bring back any Library books.
Don't forget to send your conference form back! Also,remember you can access our student reading book online by logging into ThinkCentral.com. The directions to log-in can be found on the bottom right-hand side bar of this blog page. Please help your child to read each and every night. We are in both a critical and monumental stage of first grade this quarter. Extra encouragement and support at home will help immensely!
Have a wonderful evening!
Friday, January 13, 2012
That's a Wrap!
Whew! What a busy week in first grade. We spent today filling our brains with information about Dr. King. Your first grader should be able to tell you many facts about this important leader in our nation's history. Be sure to ask your child to teach you something interesting about Dr. King. They are bringing home many projects and mini books we made to help them remember some interesting facts. Have them tell you about Rosa Parks and what her impact was on Dr. King.
We focused on 2 fancy pants words today: "peaceful" and "mercy". Ask your child to tell you what each of these words means. We made handprint doves to represent Dr. King's mission for peace. Come on by our room and check out our peaceful display.
Today was Power Half-Hour and ALL of our class family was able to participate! Yippee! I am so proud of my first graders for getting their homework completed and returned in time. Way to go!
Many of you had a hard time completing the reading homework this week. I am so sorry that I am unable to send our reading books home. Please remember that you can access our weekly stories by logging into ThinkCentral.com. The directions to log on and find the week's story are located at the bottom sidebar of this webpage. Thank you so much to all of you for helping your child complete their reading homework on time, too!
Looking ahead, please remember:
1. NO SCHOOL Monday January 16
2. Friday January 27, First grade movie night
3. Monday January 30, 100th Day of School
Be sure to read each day over this long weekend with your first grader! Enjoy your time together while you celebrate the greatness of Dr. King.
See you next week!
We focused on 2 fancy pants words today: "peaceful" and "mercy". Ask your child to tell you what each of these words means. We made handprint doves to represent Dr. King's mission for peace. Come on by our room and check out our peaceful display.
Today was Power Half-Hour and ALL of our class family was able to participate! Yippee! I am so proud of my first graders for getting their homework completed and returned in time. Way to go!
Many of you had a hard time completing the reading homework this week. I am so sorry that I am unable to send our reading books home. Please remember that you can access our weekly stories by logging into ThinkCentral.com. The directions to log on and find the week's story are located at the bottom sidebar of this webpage. Thank you so much to all of you for helping your child complete their reading homework on time, too!
Looking ahead, please remember:
1. NO SCHOOL Monday January 16
2. Friday January 27, First grade movie night
3. Monday January 30, 100th Day of School
Be sure to read each day over this long weekend with your first grader! Enjoy your time together while you celebrate the greatness of Dr. King.
See you next week!
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Midweek Update
We packed lots of learning into our day! We kicked off our day reviewing the word families: _at, _it, and _ot. Ask your child to tell you three different words in each word family such as: hat, bat, cat; hit, pit, quit; pot, not, hot. We reviewed nouns and adjectives. Have your child tell you about both of these parts of speech. We came up with lots of adjectives to describe a snowman. Your child chose 4 different adjectives to describe their imaginary snowman and then we began creating the snowman using our writing as a guide. We have some very creative first graders! Come on by our room later this week and check out our creative snowmen.
In math we continued to work on learning place value. So far, we are tackling tens and ones. Have your child tell you what they know about the tens place and the ones place. Also, challenge your child by having them tell you to identify what number has 4 tens and 6 ones (46). Play this game with your first grader to help them strengthen their concept of this important skill.
We also learned about the "Zero Smash" when adding in math. See if your child can tell you the shortcut trick to addition using the zero smash. (For example: 10 + 8,
the eight hops over and smashes the zero to take its place, so the answer is 18!)
In honor of Dr. King's upcoming birthday, we ended our day with an introduction to this great leader. I was so impressed with what our first graders already knew about Dr. King. We will spend the remainder of the week learning more about this peaceful and important leader in history. Invite your child to share something they learned about Dr. King today.
Tonight is Dominoes Pizza Night! Stay warm, it sounds like we may finally get a little taste of winter at last.
In math we continued to work on learning place value. So far, we are tackling tens and ones. Have your child tell you what they know about the tens place and the ones place. Also, challenge your child by having them tell you to identify what number has 4 tens and 6 ones (46). Play this game with your first grader to help them strengthen their concept of this important skill.
We also learned about the "Zero Smash" when adding in math. See if your child can tell you the shortcut trick to addition using the zero smash. (For example: 10 + 8,
the eight hops over and smashes the zero to take its place, so the answer is 18!)
In honor of Dr. King's upcoming birthday, we ended our day with an introduction to this great leader. I was so impressed with what our first graders already knew about Dr. King. We will spend the remainder of the week learning more about this peaceful and important leader in history. Invite your child to share something they learned about Dr. King today.
Tonight is Dominoes Pizza Night! Stay warm, it sounds like we may finally get a little taste of winter at last.
Monday, January 9, 2012
Here we go!
We are back and ready for our first full week in 2012! I hope you all had a great weekend. We were very busy getting back into our routine today. Your child is bringing home this week's spelling words to practice, as well as their two homework pages (reading and math). Please help your child practice responsibility and encourage them to complete their homework before Friday. Our sound of the week is the bossy R! Please encourage your child to play some of the new games located under the "Reading Games" section on our blog page. These games with strengthen your child's recognition of this bossy sound and hopefully they will have a little bit of fun, too. We read the story "A Perfect Lunch" together today. Please invite your first grader to give you a summary of the story. They should be providing lots of details about this fiction story. We also read aloud the fable of the Lion and the Mouse. Be sure to check our question of the day on our blog page and see if your child can answer it!
In math we began the journey of writing our numbers to 100. We looked for patterns and highlighted similarities we found on our chart. I have included some new games under our "Math Games" section of our website, too. Have them use the interactive 100's board or "Dog Bones" to help them strengthen their understanding of number relationships. We are about to dive into the concept of place value and this week. We reviewed that numbers love to be a in group of 10. Give your child a handful of coins, raisins, M&Ms, paperclips, etc. and have them sort the pile into groups of ten. See if they can count each group using 10 groups and figure out how many total objects they have. (2 groups of 10 plus 4 left over = 24)
Looking ahead for the week, don't forget:
1. PTO meeting tomorrow at 7pm
2. Dominoes Pizza Night Wednesday
3. Time for Kids envelopes can still be returned! Remember it doesn't cost any money and for every postcard addressed, we get 2 subscriptions to Time for Kids!
4. No School next Monday January 16
Let me know if you have any questions or if you need anything. Please help your first grader get lots of sleep this week. I want to keep everyone healthy! Have a great night and get ready for that predicted blast of winter ahead!
In math we began the journey of writing our numbers to 100. We looked for patterns and highlighted similarities we found on our chart. I have included some new games under our "Math Games" section of our website, too. Have them use the interactive 100's board or "Dog Bones" to help them strengthen their understanding of number relationships. We are about to dive into the concept of place value and this week. We reviewed that numbers love to be a in group of 10. Give your child a handful of coins, raisins, M&Ms, paperclips, etc. and have them sort the pile into groups of ten. See if they can count each group using 10 groups and figure out how many total objects they have. (2 groups of 10 plus 4 left over = 24)
Looking ahead for the week, don't forget:
1. PTO meeting tomorrow at 7pm
2. Dominoes Pizza Night Wednesday
3. Time for Kids envelopes can still be returned! Remember it doesn't cost any money and for every postcard addressed, we get 2 subscriptions to Time for Kids!
4. No School next Monday January 16
Let me know if you have any questions or if you need anything. Please help your first grader get lots of sleep this week. I want to keep everyone healthy! Have a great night and get ready for that predicted blast of winter ahead!
Friday, January 6, 2012
Back in the swing...
Monday= C Tuesday= D Wednesday= A Thursday= B Friday= C
It was great to have these two days to get back into the swing after such a long winter break. Today we read a different adaptation of our story The Mitten. We made Venn Diagrams and compared the similarities and differences between the two versions of this folktale. Thank you to all of my responsible first graders for completing this assignment and returning their yellow mittens today! Ask your child to tell which version of The Mitten they liked better. Have them tell you why by recalling details from the story. In math we did lots of review to make sure our brains hadn't forgotten anything over break. We did lots of calendar activities today to get ourselves organized for the month of January. Be sure to ask your child to share their calendar with you that we completed this afternoon. This month we celebrate 100's day and host a movie night! It's a busy time to be a first grader.
Looking ahead to the upcoming weeks, here are some highlights that you may want to mark down on your calendar:
1. Tuesday January 10 = PTO Meeting 7pm
2. Wednesday January 11 = Dominoes Pizza Night
3. Monday January 16 = No School
4. Friday January 27 = 1st Grade Hosts Movie Night
(We'll be showing Kung Fu Panda 2)
5. Monday January 30 = 100th Day of School!
Please check your child's backpack tonight. There are several important things coming home. Please read the letter coming home tonight about the TIME for Kids postcards. If your child completes any of the postcards they will get a frog next week. And be sure that you find their 2nd quarter Report Card coming home tonight, as well.
Enjoy the beautiful weekend. Please help your child get back on a schedule and help them get plenty of sleep. This is an amazing semester for first graders and we need all of them to be healthy and ready to learn!
It was great to have these two days to get back into the swing after such a long winter break. Today we read a different adaptation of our story The Mitten. We made Venn Diagrams and compared the similarities and differences between the two versions of this folktale. Thank you to all of my responsible first graders for completing this assignment and returning their yellow mittens today! Ask your child to tell which version of The Mitten they liked better. Have them tell you why by recalling details from the story. In math we did lots of review to make sure our brains hadn't forgotten anything over break. We did lots of calendar activities today to get ourselves organized for the month of January. Be sure to ask your child to share their calendar with you that we completed this afternoon. This month we celebrate 100's day and host a movie night! It's a busy time to be a first grader.
Looking ahead to the upcoming weeks, here are some highlights that you may want to mark down on your calendar:
1. Tuesday January 10 = PTO Meeting 7pm
2. Wednesday January 11 = Dominoes Pizza Night
3. Monday January 16 = No School
4. Friday January 27 = 1st Grade Hosts Movie Night
(We'll be showing Kung Fu Panda 2)
5. Monday January 30 = 100th Day of School!
Please check your child's backpack tonight. There are several important things coming home. Please read the letter coming home tonight about the TIME for Kids postcards. If your child completes any of the postcards they will get a frog next week. And be sure that you find their 2nd quarter Report Card coming home tonight, as well.
Enjoy the beautiful weekend. Please help your child get back on a schedule and help them get plenty of sleep. This is an amazing semester for first graders and we need all of them to be healthy and ready to learn!
Thursday, January 5, 2012
December 2011
So sorry to not have gotten this posted earlier. What a great time we had before the holidays! Enjoy!
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Welcome Back!
We are having a super-duper first day back! We spent all morning catching up and sharing details about our winter break. It sounds like a good time was had by all. We did a reflection activity and talked about the past and the future. Your child is bringing home a "mirror" with a favorite memory from 2011 and something they are looking forward to in 2012. We also read an old folktale today called The Mitten and your child has a homework assignment tonight! Here is what they need to do:
1. Your child is bringing home a paper mitten tonight
2. They need to retell you the story from memory, using the character cut-outs to help guide their story in order of events.
3. They do not have to read anything, but rather re-tell the main events to someone at home, using their mitten and characters for guidance.
Tomorrow we will read a different version of this same folktale and compare the 2 stories. Please be sure to have your child re-tell you today's story with their mitten prop. This activity helps with comprehension and sequencing. Encourage them to provide you with details and have them talk about the different characters when they have finished telling you their story.
I am so happy you all had such a nice break together! My first graders have grown up a LOT over this break. Have a wonderful night and welcome back! Happy New Year!
1. Your child is bringing home a paper mitten tonight
2. They need to retell you the story from memory, using the character cut-outs to help guide their story in order of events.
3. They do not have to read anything, but rather re-tell the main events to someone at home, using their mitten and characters for guidance.
Tomorrow we will read a different version of this same folktale and compare the 2 stories. Please be sure to have your child re-tell you today's story with their mitten prop. This activity helps with comprehension and sequencing. Encourage them to provide you with details and have them talk about the different characters when they have finished telling you their story.
I am so happy you all had such a nice break together! My first graders have grown up a LOT over this break. Have a wonderful night and welcome back! Happy New Year!
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Happy New Year!
Thursday= A Friday= B
Hi everyone! Are you ready to come back tomorrow? I can't wait to see you and hear all about your winter break. I hope you had lots of fun. I missed you all so much and I will be waiting for you at our door in the morning! See you soon.
Love,
Ms. B
Hi everyone! Are you ready to come back tomorrow? I can't wait to see you and hear all about your winter break. I hope you had lots of fun. I missed you all so much and I will be waiting for you at our door in the morning! See you soon.
Love,
Ms. B
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