June 15, 2015

Hey Everyone!  I hope you are enjoying your summer break so far.  I am teaching summer school for three weeks so my summer vacation will start in July. I am missing you guys already and remembering the great year we all had together.  Sending you lots of forget me not hugs! 

Here are some of our last week's events... 

  We went to CHS to plant trees!  Years from now when we're in high school we can see how much the trees have grown!  AND we'll be bigger too!

Let Field Day begin...

                                                         Awww resting!

                                                                    

So long friends we had a BLAST!  

I will miss all of you sweeties!  Have a great summer!  I love you!

May 23-27, 2016 Week 36

8 more days of school!  Where has the time gone?!!!  I am going to miss my little kiddos so much!  We have had a BLAST this year learning, growing, laughing and bonding as friends!  I am very proud of all the success students have had in reading and math!  Students excelled in AR this year!  I wish you could have seen them during reading groups and AR time!  They were so eager to read and take test!  

No more spelling or reading tests!

On Monday, May 23 we will go Glow Bowling in Sulphur Springs to celebrate students earning their AR goals.  I am happy to say that ALL our friends in our class reached their AR goals.

On Tuesday, May 24 we will have another AR celebration for students who earned a blue or gold AR shirt.  Please make sure that your child wears his or her blue or gold AR shirt on this day.

On Thursday, May 26 I will send home all school supplies, consumable books and journals.

On Friday, May 27 we will have our first grade picnic at the City Park.  Pleas send your child a sack lunch with 2 drinks.  Students may bring toys that fit inside their backpack. NO hard bats or balls!  Please write child's name on all objects.

Monday, May 30 is Memorial Day.  No School!

Tuesday, May 31 is Field Day.

Thursday, June 2 is the last day of school. Students will have early dismissal at 12:00.

We have a packed and busy schedule but I am looking for a day to take my students with 100 good behavior stickers to Braums for ice cream!


Congrats to Justin and Kaede for mastering 70 math facts in 6 minutes!    Math Whizzes!

Look who our "Mystery Reader" was on Friday...

 Thanks Mrs. Wilson!  We enjoyed the book!  

You did a fantastic job reading to us!  :)

Thanks for a wonderful year!  

May 16-20, 2016 Week 35

We are in the final countdown until school is out!  As of today we have 12 more days of school!  I'm sad that we will be leaving each other soon.   :(  

Last week we were very busy with Math and Reading Benchmark assessments and online STAR tests.  I am happy to say that the boys and girls did a great job!  They took their time to read the passages and questions, they showed their strategy skills when solving the math problems.  They made significant growth on the Literacy STAR test!  Congrats to you all!  :)

Your child has a "Glow Bowling" permission slip  that needs to be signed and returned ASAP.  We will go bowling next Monday, May 23. We plan to go to the Sulphur Springs park afterwards.  Please send your child a sack lunch with a drink on that day.  I will send a reminder on Friday.  

This week we will read "Alexander Graham Bell." It is a biography of his life.  We will blend and read words with vowel sound aw, au; read words with vowel sound -al (ex:ball); sequence events in a story; identify adverbs; and practice Saxon Phonics.

In Math we will keep practicing addition and subtraction facts, doubles, and fact families.  At home please make up number facts and let your child solve them.

In Science we will explore animal habitats and the environments around them.

In Social Studies we will continue to learn about inventors and their inventions.  Our main focus is Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison. Last week we talked about how technology has changed over the years. We are going to make a graph to see if more people used rotary dial phones, push button phones or cell phones when they were younger.

Upcoming Events...

May 18 - CES Family Picnic

May 23 - AR Glow Bowling

May 27- First Grade Picnic @ Park

May 30 -Memorial Day Holiday

May 31- Field Day

June 2 - Last Day of School (early dismissal)

 Aww my sweet class surprised me with a banner that they made in ART!  I love them!!!

We love our wonderful moms!  I hope you liked your Mother's Day cards and are cashing in on the jobs that your child said that they would do for you!

Roland and Saniyah were all smiles because they earned their 25 point AR shirt!  Bravo!  You guys worked very hard! :)

 Look who our "Mystery Readers" were last week...

Thanks Mr. Daniel!  You were such a fun and exciting reader!  We loved listening to you read 

"Tyrone and the Swamp Gang!"

Thanks Mrs. Ericka!  You were a great enthusiastic reader and we loved the book "Wish Come True Cat." You did a super job asking the story questions!  You are always so sweet!

Thanks for following us this week!
12 More Days!

April 25-29, 2016 Week 32 AND May 2-6, 2016 Week 33

I am sorry that I got a little behind on blogging last week.  Things have been moving very fast for me.  My younger son got married last Friday and I found out I am having ANOTHER grandson!  WOW!  I am thrilled, happy, excited and on top of the world!  God is so good! 

We will read "Dot and Jabber and the Great Acorn Mystery!"  It is a fictional story and it also teaches the reader a lesson about how a seed travels from place to place.  We will blend and read words with vowel digraph oo; compare and contrast objects and characters in a story; identify pronouns; add endings to words; discuss asking sentences (interrogative sentences); and practice Saxon Phonics.

                 And our "mystery reader" was...
                   Brooks' mom...Mrs. Kris Ann!

In Math we will continue to work on non-standard units of measurement.  We will use cubes, marshmallows, paper clips, beans, etc to measure different objects,

In Science we will put our zoo animal reports on Chatterpix and learn what our friends found out about their animal.  Everyone did a great job!  Here are a few of our reports...  

In Social Studies we will learn about inventors and their inventions.  We will discuss Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell and others.

We had fun learning about plants and growing our own plants.  

After completing our unit on Economics we walked to the store and spent $1.00. We learned about buyers and sellers AND tax!  LOL!

  

Zoe's Flat Stanley visited her uncle in New Mexico!  He went to lots of famous landmarks!

Mrs. Ashley was so sweet to come and help us get ready for the zoo!  Thanks Aubrey's mom! 

  Thanks "G" and Mrs. Arelly for 
helping us out at the zoo!

      Look at this beautiful white tiger!  

I was so excited to take this great picture of him looking at me!  Gorgeous!

                                               

                                       

 Just three more reasons I love to visit the zoo!  We had a BLAST! 

UPCOMING EVENTS...

May 2 - CES Music Program
May 6 - Mother's Day Cake Creation 
May 9 - Kona Ice Snowcones
May 18 - First Grade Family Picnic at CES
May 23 - AR Glow Bowling
May 27- First Grade Picnic at City Park
May 30 - No School (Bad Weather Day)
May 31 - First Grade Field Day
June 2 - Last Day of School

We will start our Marvelous May countdown tomorrow.  The leader will pull to find out what fun activity we will be doing each day!

Thanks so much for visiting us this week!  See you next week as we continue our countdown and class activities!     

April 18-22, 2016 Week 31

Thanks parents for signing and returning the zoo permission slips. Everyone has theirs turned in and we are ready to go next week! 

Our Flat Stanley's are all over the place!  We are getting reports and pictures of him sightseeing the country side in big trucks, eating in Scotland, and sipping tea in Japan!  We can't wait to see and hear about all the other places that he visits!  :)  

Please send $1.00 with your child by Friday.  We will end our unit on Economics by walking to the store on the corner.  For several weeks we have been learning about goods and services and identifying who are buyers and sellers.  We will be the buyers as we make choices about what we can buy with $1.00. I will have my student observer with me which will allow me to have an extra pair of eyes and hands.  I am sending a permission slip that has to be signed and returned in order for your child to walk with the class.  Please sign and return to me by Wednesday.

This week we will be reading a story in our basal called "Mole and the Baby Bird."  Our reading skills are draw conclusions; blend and read words with vowel diphthongs ou, ow; segment and blend phonemes; discuss folktales; syllables; and  practice Saxon Phonics.

In Math we will compare 2D and 3D shapes.  We will finish up fractions and equal shares.

In Science we will focus on getting our zoo animal research completed.  Students will choose an animal that they would like to write about.  We will do this in class.

We finished up our unit on plants.  We learned to identify the parts of a plant... roots, stem, leaves, flower.  We can explain what each part plays in the role of a plants life. We learned what the biggest plant is ( a tree) and we also learned how plants are used in everyday items that we use.  On Friday we planted our own plants.

In Social Studies we will end our unit on goods/services and buyers/sellers by walking to the store.  We will play a review game to test our knowledge.  Please remember to send $1.00 with your child by Friday.

Excellent job Ivan for earning 25 AR points!  He worked very hard!  He was so proud of himself!

A couple of weeks ago school board member Kathleen Hooten came to our class and read her unpublished book about her show goat Cabo.  On  Friday she brought Cabo to visit us.  He was beautiful!  Even I petted him!!!  

                                   Thanks Luke for letting us brush Cabo!

                                       Cabo was very gentle and kid friendly!

                                                 

                                                      

                                                     I did it!  I petted Cabo!

                                Our friends showed Cabo love and attention!

                                           

                              Some of our friends got in the trailor with Cabo!

      Thanks Mrs. Kathleen and Luke for answering our questions about Cabo!  It was a pleasure to see my Luke.  I had him 10 years ago in first grade!  What a super young man! 

                                                 

Cabo is one smart goat!  We enjoyed him!

For our writing assignment we wrote about Cabo!

Upcoming Events...

Kona Ice Snowcones...April 20 (paid for)

Tyler Zoo...April 28 (sack lunch needed)

No School...April 29

CES Music Program...May 3 at CMS

FYI...We only have 2 more weeks of homework.  We will continue through the last week of April.

Thanks to all who follow us each week!  We love that you peek in to see what we are doing in class! 

Have a great week!  See you all later!   :)