October 26-30, 2015 Week 10

This week in learning we will read "Who Works Here?" It is story that tells about real people and events. Our reading skills are to blend and read long i words; identify the author's purpose for writing the story; special titles (Mr, Mrs, Dr, etc;) digraphs wh, tch, ph, ch and Saxon Phonics.

In Math we will continue to practice numeration. We will work on place value using base ten blocks and writing the expanded notation form.           (Example)                            
                                           draw 3 tens/9 ones

                                           3 tens and 9 ones 

                             30+9=39

In Science we will explore force, motion, and sound.  We will have hands on activities so that students can better understand this concept.

In Social Studies we will discuss the needs and wants in a family.  We will learn what is a need and a want. 

*Friday will be a busy day!  Students can wear their Halloween costumes and we are having a movie and popcorn and another surprise activity!  Since it is so much we will take our spelling test on Thursday.  Please help your child practice!  

 Upcoming Events...

Red Ribbon Week  (refer to dress sheet that I sent)


Progress Reports will go home on Thurday

On Friday we will have a movie and popcorn!

November 2 is 50's Day!  Dress in 50's style clothing! Wear poodle skirts, white T's and rolled up jeans!  Get ready to rock and roll!!! 

*We have also started a new AR incentive to encourage students to read!  Students who read and earn 25 or 50 AR points will receive an AR tshirt and sunglasses!  Right now we are in the early stages of taking tests so we look forward to earning more and more points.  We are off to a super start!  

We have the best class and best parents!  :) 
Thanks for everything that you do to help us!  We are learning so much and the boys and girls are doing a great job!  We are truly a class family and I enjoy watching the students work together!  I love them and I can tell that they care about each other!  

                    The hardest little workers in Texas!  

We are using base 10 blocks for place value!

The Clean Desk Fairy strikes again!

Congrats Trinity for keeping your desk neat and clean!

Mrs. Allison stopped by with a visitor...  a cute little frog!  :)

She knew we were a froggy class!

Thank you for following us!  

Please come back next week!  

Happy Halloween!  

October 19-23, 2015 Week 9

Whew!  We had a busy last week!  We went to Dallas to the Arboretum. It was filled with beautiful flowers and the kiddos enjoyed the pumpkin patch and waterfalls!  Thanks to our wonderful parents for chaperoning and helping us out.                     

                    Arboretum here we come!

                                           
                                                            Pumpkin Patch!

                     Kiddos and parents having a picnic on the grounds!

                                                
                                  Inside the pumpkin patch!

 

This week in learning we will read "The Farmer in the Hat."  We will blend and read long a words; identify cause and effect; proper nouns; antonyms (opposites); consonant c/s, g/j sounds, soft g and c sounds like in cage and face; and Saxon phonics.

In Math we will continue numeration and compare and order numbers; place value using tens and ones.

 The boys and girls are off to a great start working on tens and ones.  We discussed place value and expanded notation.  

In Science we will study force, motion, and energy and explore heat, light, and sound.

In Social Studies we will learn about the roles and responsibilities in a family.
      

                                                                   Nouns

                        Person, Place, Thing

Pink Out Pep Rally at High School

                                                   
                                            Aboss getting ready for race!

Upcoming Events...

October 21  Kona Ice Snowcones

October 26-30  Red Ribbon Week

October 27  Reading and Writing Night

October 29  Progress Reports

Thanks for following our class...please come back to visit us next week!   :) 

October 12-16, 2015 Week 8

 "Thank you" for coming to your child's report card conference.  I enjoyed visiting with you.  

This week we will be very busy.  We will go to the Arboretum in Dallas on Tuesday.  We will leave at 8:20 and plan to be back at 2:20. We have brand new field trip t-shirts for students to wear.  Your child will need to bring a lunch with 2 drinks. Please pack student lunches in a plastic bag.  Please NO LUNCH BOXES!  I will bring my cooler to put drinks in.  Write name on lunch bags please.  This saves time for me because I will be putting all our lunches together in a box.  If you are going with us please make sure that you go online and get your parking permit. Please read over all Arboretum notes that I have sent home.

On Friday we will go to CHS for the pink-out pep rally.  Our little cheerleaders will perform.  I'm excited to see them cheer!  Go little cheerleaders!

In reading this week we will read a fictional story called "A Big Fish for Max."  Our reading skills are:  sequencing; digraphs sh and th; common nouns; vowel sound a: al (ex: ball); daily Saxon Phonics practicing letter sounds, blending, reading fluency sentences, and coding words.

In math we will continue working with numbers to 20.  We will compose and decompose numbers and learn the base ten system.

In Science we will identify the three states of matter:  liquid, solid, gas

In Social Studies we will continue our study of good citizens.

Last week we had to earn 10 DOJO points to be able to eat lunch and play at Eddie Moore Park.  Congrats to these "good citizens" for doing a fabulous job!  :)

Hmmm! I wonder what next week will be?

Upcoming events...

October 13- Arboretum in Dallas

October 16- CHS Pep rally

October 21- Kona Ice Snowcones

October 26- Red Ribbon Week

October 27- Reading and Writing Night 

October 29- 2nd six weeks Progress Reports

Thanks for following our blog!  Have a wonderful week!   :)

October 5-9, 2015 Week 7

I hope that everyone had a nice weekend!  I am enjoying the cooler weather and excited about having many more days like today!  :)

WOW!  This is the start of the 2nd six weeks!  

I will be having parent/teacher conferences all week.  I'm excited to conference with you about your child's performance in class!  

This week we will read "Animal Park," it is a nonfiction story about animals in Africa.  Our reading skills are: blend and read short u words, identify cause and effect, identify exclamatory sentences (excited sentences), final consonant blends, and practice Saxon Phonics daily.

In Math we will compose and decompose numbers up to 20 by drawing objects and using manipulatives.

In Science we will learn about the 3 states of matter.  (solid, liquid, gas)

In Social Studies we will discuss the role of a good citizen.

We started an incentive called "Attendance Dollars!"  All students who come to school everyday will get a play dollar and at the end of each month they will be rewarded with a prize from the office.  Some days we will have double dollar day.  :)

Upcoming October Events... 

October 5-13  Parent/Teacher Conferences

October 8 - Early Release at 12:00

October 13 - Dallas Arboredum 

October  21- KONA ICE Snowcones

October 26-30  Red Ribbon Week

October 27 - Reading/Writing Night 

Each week we have a DOJO reward for good behavior!  Last Friday was 'luscious lollipops!" 

                                           

       We created birds in a nest to go along with last week's story "Get the Egg!"

                       We learned to tell time to the hour! 

                       "The Clean Desk Fairy" strikes again!  

Thanks for visiting our blog!  

See you next week!  :)

Sept. 28-Oct.2, 2015 Week 6

This week our reading story is "Get the Egg."  It is realistic fiction.  It is a made-up story that could really happen.  Our reading skills are main idea and details; interrogative sentences which are asking sentences; blend and read short e words; initial consonant blends (ex: br, cl, sn); abc order; and practice Saxon phonics.

In Math we will tell time to the hour on a digital and analog clock.

                       We worked hard last week on subtraction. 

                   We used cubes and our whole- part -part mats.

In Science we will identify the properties of matter.

In Social Studies we will discuss citizenship.

Upcoming Events...

October 5-13   Report Card Conferences

I will send each of you your day and time on Monday attached to newsletter.  Please sign and return.

HIP HIP HOORAY to Sam for being one of the top fundraisers for the CES Ball.  He was the top selling boy in first grade!  YAY !!!

                              Kamdyn was looking adorable!

      Awe! Aboss was so handsome!

        I was excited to see 2 of my former students represent NHS!   Makayla and Shamra!  They are Juniors now!  WOW!

                                

 Another former student Kendall, now a 

4th grader with her sister Greenlee.

Everyone looked like they had a "ball!"   LOL!

Friends T'annie and Zoe enjoying recess!  

The "Clean Desk Fairy" visited our classroom last week! 

 Congrats to Kamdyn for having a clean and organized desk!  

September 21-25, 2015 Week 5

Wow!  We are starting our 5th week of school!  Monday will be day 20.  I am very happy to share that we have settled in to our routines and classroom procedures.  Things are going well in class!  I am enjoying the boys and girls and they are enjoying each other. :)  

This week in reading our story is "A Fox and a Kit."  It is a nonfiction story about the life of a mother fox and her baby.  We will blend and read words with inflected endings -s, and -ing.  (EX: naps, napping); identify a declarative sentence (a sentence that tells a fact about something) We will also have our daily Saxon Phonics lessons where we blend and clap sounds, code, read, spell words, and read sentences.

In Math we will work on subtraction using cubes and continue to review addition to 10.  

In Science we will continue to study the weather.

In Social Studies we will keep learning about patriotic symbols and make the USA flag, and bald eagle. (We created the Liberty Bell)

BRAVO to the boys and girls for continuing to do a great job on their spelling tests!  I can tell that they are practicing at home.  The Tic Tac Toe sheet that I send on Mondays is just something extra that you can use to help your child practice their words.  They can also practice the weekly sight words using this too.  It does not have to be returned BUT please use it at home.  

Starting the 2nd six weeks I will take a grade on the sight words that we have each week.  I already have them read the words to me one on one after the reading test on Thursdays, but in a couple of weeks I will enter the grades as part of reading.  (I wanted to get them used to practicing them first)  Their sight word grade will be on the back of the reading test.  We play games with the words everyday, but they still need to practice them at home too.  Thanks!

If you have money for the "Back to School Ball" raffle tickets please send it by Wednesday.  The drawing for the winning girl and boy will be held on Thursday. They will be crowned Mr and Miss CES. The "Ball" will be from 6-8 pm in the cafeteria.  Hope to see you there!  :) 

In a couple of weeks I will be sending report card conference notes for 1st six weeks report cards.  I would like to conference with you about your child's classroom performance, strengths, behavior, etc. :)  When you get the conference note please let me know if this day and time works for you.  I will do my best to accommodate your work schedule. 


We had a busy week!  Here are some highlights from last week!  

The students get DOJO points for their behavior and each week we work toward a special treat or reward.  This weeks reward was to earn 10 pts and eat with me in the ArboReadum!  Great job guys!

Reading to each group during primetime!  

In science we've been learning about weather symbols, weather patterns and weather tools used to measure heat, cold, rain, and wind. We made a thermometer, rain gauge, and a wind vane.  We put these in our science journal.  We made a water cycle wheel and sang our water cycle song.

Have a super week and thanks for following us!  

See you next week!  :)

September 14-18, 2015 Week 4

This week in learning...

Reading:  The Big Blue Ox  (animal fiction); blend and read short o words; identify the character and setting; and Saxon Phonics lessons

Math:  We will continue addition and begin subtraction to 10.

Science:  Explore the weather

Social Studies:  USA Patriotic Symbols

Look what we did today...we took an AR test!  I know that it's early in the year but I wanted the boys and girls to see how much fun reading and AR testing over a book can be.  We read and took our first AR test in first grade!  BRAVO to all my little smarty pants!  They did a fantastic job!  :)

                            Way to go Levi!

                                   Keep up the great work Zoe!

                                                 

                                             Terrific job Tre'vion!

                          Elias was excited to see his score!

                                Sam was a pro because he had 
               taken tests before! Awesome job!

 Brooks was all smiles and did a fabulous job!

           Justin said he needed no help!  Way to go!

                  Ana was carefully paying attention                           to the answer choices. Super job!  

We took our AR tests during our reading primetime,  so everyone wasn't in the classroom with us!   Everyone will be included.  The other students will also have opportunities to test. 

 I am also sending your child's username and password along with the AR website in Monday's folder. Once you log on to the site then type your child's username and password and enter, then type in the title of the book and enter. Press start to begin the test.  

Please assist them with taking AR tests over our weekly basal stories, library books, and many of the paper books that I send home. This is a great way to increase reading comprehension skills.  Please let them use the book to go back and check for the answer if they get confused.  If you can't test at home just please read.  The important thing is reading everyday! https://hosted55.renlearn.com/224670/

Upcoming Events...

September 16 - Kona Ice will be here to sell snowcones.  The costs of the snowcones are on the  little purple flyer that I sent home in the folder. If you send money please send it in an envelope or baggie.  

September 17 - Picture Day and students will bring home their first six weeks progress report.  It will be sent home in the red folder.  

September 24 - CES Back to School Ball

FYI:  If you ever come to eat lunch with your child you can eat in the AboREADum.  :)

That's All Folks!  See you next week!