Hola Parents, 

This week:

Spanish Language Arts

Essential Question: How do plants change as they grow?

Next week: 

What is a folktale?

Math:   Length and addition facts

Month of December:

Social Studies:  
Customs
Holidays Around the world

Survey: Please if you have not completed the district survey I sent last week try to fill it out. It provides important information to our district and your input is GREATLY appreciated. I will resend the link. 

Next week: 

* There will be NO Santa's Shop this year. 

Room 17 Holiday Book Exchange

To celebrate the spirit of the holidays, our class will be participating in a holiday book exchange with one another!

·      Please bring a new or gently used book WRAPPED by Wednesday, December 20^th.

·      Write “From: (and the name of your child)” on the wrapped book.

·      Do not write “To:” as students will be able to pick any of the books spread out on the table.

Please spend less than $5. If you are not able to for any reason, please email me and I will make sure your child has a book to hand out as a gift during our Holiday Party on Thursday, December 21^st.

Wednesday Dec. 20: Students will participate in Holidays around the world rotations with the rest of first grade. Students will "travel" to all first grade classrooms and will do an activity or play a game from a different country. 

Thursday Dec. 21:
Pajama Day! 
Holiday Book Exchange
We will have our Holiday Party after lunch. We will watch the Polar Express movie. Students will have hot chocolate, popcorn and cookies. 

Field Trip: I sent the permission slips yesterday. Please try to return those by next Thursday Dec. 21st before we go on Winter Break. We are going to the Birch Aquarium on Tuesday January 9th. So far I received 16 permission slips already. Thanks for being so prompt!


Winter Break: Dec. 22-Jan. 5- There will be no homework packet assigned! Enjoy your family time.

See you back on January 8th!

Welcome Back

Hola Parents, 

This week:

Spanish Language Arts

Essential Question: How do we measure time?

Next week: 
Review

Math:   Number Stories, Parts to total number, Counting to Add and Subtract, Skip Counting

Month of December:

Social Studies:  Sorry I have not sent the timeline videos. I am struggling with my computer. It is not letting me upload because apparently I ran out of space. I am working on it to be able to free enough space to upload the videos and send them your way. You are also welcome to see them during our parent conference time next week. 

Customs- We will start learning about Customs, students will be doing their Customs presentation next week. The project is due this Friday December 1st. We will also we learning about Customs Around the World. 

Next week is Parent/Teacher Conference. Please make sure you have signed up for a time slot. The schedule is  posted outside our classroom, you can also e-mail me. The information was sent via e-mail two weeks ago. 

Students will be released at 12:15 every day next week. 

Hello All

Hello Parents!

Next week:

Spanish Language Arts

Essential Question: How can you find your way around?

Math:   Number Stories, Parts to total number, Counting to Add and Subtract, Skip Counting

Month of November:

Social Studies:  Changes over time (timeline presentations). I have recorded all timeline presentations. I will upload those into my computer and will be sending them to all parents in the next week. 

Coming up in November!

I was told that all fundraiser items and picture orders should arrive sometime next week. 

I will be out Tuesday, November 7th and Tuesday November 14th due to Next Generation Science Standards planning and teaching outside of our school campus.We will have a substitute teacher those days. 

No School Friday, November 10th in observance of Veteran's Day.

Family Lunch Day: Friday, November 17th

Thanksgiving break November 20-24th

Have a great weekend! 


  

Next Week

Hola Parents,

Hope you all had an amazing weekend.

Next week:

Spanish Language Arts

Essential Question: How do people help out in the community? 

Math:   Number Stories, Parts to total number, Counting to Add and Subtract, Skip Counting

Science: Sound waves will end next week. 

Hello Everyone, 

English rotations started this week! Students are loving it. Our first English spelling test was today, thank you Mrs. Carrie for helping us! 

This Saturday is our Fall Carnival from 4:00 p.m.- 8:00 p.m. Don't forget to volunteer 30 minutes of your time in our booths if you are available. You can sign up in the sheet outside our classroom. Contact Mrs. Carrie for any questions. 

Reminder: Our first Home project is due next Friday October 27th. Instructions were sent last Wednesday and you can find a copy in the Homework tab. 

Spanish Language Arts

Essential Question:  Where do animals live together? 

Math:   Number Stories, Parts to total number, Counting to Add and Subtract, Skip Counting

Science: Sound Waves for the month of October

Hello Parents, 

It is time for our first home project. It consists of a timeline and an optional "Día de los muertos"(Day of the Dead) picture sharing presentation. Our room mom will be setting up an altar and students can bring pictures to share between October 30th-November 3rd. 
The timeline will be Friday October 27th. I sent a hard copy home with the directions for the project today in the orange folder . You can also find a digital copy in our homework tab. 

English words have been added to the homework. We will be having our first English spelling test next Wednesday October 25th. The test will be for the words that will be assigned in the homework on October 18th. 

This week: 

Spanish Language Arts: 

Essential Question: "What jobs need to be done in a community?" 

Math:

Decomposing Numbers, Number Stories, Counting on to add, inverse addition 

Next Week: 

Spanish Language Arts

Essential Question: What buildings do you know? What are they made of?

Math:

Decomposing Numbers, Number Stories, Counting on to add, addition math inverse

Science: Sound Waves for the month of October

 English Rotations: We will be starting next week. Students will be rotating Monday's, Tuesday's, Thursday's and Friday's to Sra. James class for English in the afternoon. 

Coming up: Our school Carnival on October 21st! Thank you all for the donations you have made so far! Don't forget to volunteer, your help is greatly appreciated by PTA and myself. 

Happy Wednesday

Hello Parents,

I hope you are all having a great week! The homework for this week has been posted. 

This week: 

Spanish Language Arts: 

Essential Question: "What do friends do together?" 

Math:

Decomposing Numbers, Number Stories, Counting on to add, inverse addition 

Next Week: 

Spanish Language Arts

Essential Question: How does your body move?

Math:

Decomposing Numbers, Number Stories, Counting on to add, addition math inverse

Science: Sound Waves for the month of October

Our fall carnival is approaching, on October 21st. I am looking forward to seeing all of you there. Don't forget to volunteer if have some extra time, you can take a look at the e-mail I sent last week with more information about this. 

Happy Wednesday!

This Week

Good Morning Parents,

As I mentioned during back to school night, I won't be sending graded homework back home weekly. I only sent the first one graded so you can see my expectations. You can see what the number means in the rubric posted in the Homework tab. I am mostly looking at completed work, even if it is not correct. I don't deduct points for incorrect responses, just for being incomplete or missing (unless I get a note saying the student was unable to understand what he/she had to do).


This week we are working on:

Spanish Language Arts: What makes a pet special?
Math: Skip Counting, tally marks, number stories
Citizenship

Homework

Hello Parents,

The homework for this week is posted in the Homework tab. Sorry it was posted so late, it was a bit of a crazy day with Back to School Night :)... in the future the homework will usually be posted by 4 p.m. on Wednesday's. Thank you for your  understanding! It was so nice seeing so many of you tonight!

Have a great rest of your week.

Hello Parents!

Our theme this week is  Where I live, the essential question: "What is it like where you live?"

For math we are continuing with Counting using different kinds of tools (ie. number line, hundredths charts)." and Counting using different kinds of tools, comparing numbers.


This week the BOOK FAIR will be open from Monday through Thursday before and after school in the multi-purpose room. A flyer went home this past Wednesday.

Wednesday September 13

 Back To School Night:

Time 5:15-5:45 PTA membership meeting @ the blue lunch tables. *If you have not joined PTA, please consider doing it. PTA memberships are a big deal! This money funds fundraisers for our kiddos, assemblies, field trips, and supplemental materials for our classrooms.
I already joined! Proud Gold Member here :D There will be two sessions, you can attend the one that accommodates best to your schedule. 6:00-6:25
6:35-7:00

Important Information

Good Afternoon Parents,

I know this post is fairly long, but it contains tons of important information. Please take a couple of minutes to read it thoroughly.

HOMEWORK: Today I assigned the first HOMEWORK packet. As I had mentioned before, this homework packet is a practice. Every student received a printed copy today. Starting next week I will not send printed copies of the homework. Instead I will post the homework in our classroom blog for you to print. The homework is assigned on Wednesdays and is due the following Wednesday. IF YOU CANNOT PRINT THE HOMEWORK PLEASE E-MAIL ME AND I WILL CONTINUE SENDING YOU A WEEKLY PRINTED COPY.  Only the first homework will be sent back home with corrections or comments for your reference. From there on I will not be sending homework back home. I will e-mail you if I have any concerns or doubts about your child’s homework. Students will take a math home links book. In the homework’s directions page you will notice I assigned pages. These pages are from such math book. Complete the assigned pages, tear them out and staple them with the rest of the packet. This book is in English to assist parents in helping their children understand how to better acclimate to first grade math. The vocabulary can be difficult and directions are often fairly long and require reading. Later on the school year I will be sending the Spanish version, but you can keep the English version as a reference.

Spelling Tests: Students will have a spelling test every Wednesday. The words they will be tested on will be sent home every Wednesday in the homework. They will have a week to practice; we will see them every day in class as well.  We will have a PRACTICE TEST next Wednesday with the set of words that were sent in today’s homework.

Please remind your child that they must be taking their book bag and orange folder with their daily behavior chart home every day. Both of this should be brought back to school every morning. Students are paid class money for bringing their book daily.

SNACK/ LUNCH: It would be super helpful if snacks and lunch are packed separately. You can use a small baggie for snacks or if it is something that is already packed just write your child’s name with a sharpie. The reasoning behind this is that when we go to snack we only take the snack red basket with us, if students leave their snacks in their lunch bags they constantly forget to take them out. Meaning that they are constantly wasting recess time walking back to the classroom and searching for their lunch bags in the blue bin. If you are already doing this, thank you so much!

Ice cream: The cafeteria will start selling ice cream Friday September 15. We highly encourage students to bring only exact change to buy ice cream.. Each student should only buy one ice cream.

Math Racers: The first math racer worksheet went home today. We will be doing these pages every Tuesday and Thursday to practice math facts & fluency (I time them for 5 minutes). I will send the corrected sheets Wednesdays and Fridays. If your child scores a 98% or higher they will pass on to the next racer sheet. If they miss more than 2 they will stay in the same racer until they pass it.

CLASS CENTS: In class students earn class money (fake cents) for following our school and classroom rules. They can use this money to buy from our classroom store.

Classroom store: I will be selling from our classroom store every other Friday. Students can use their class money to buy at such time; I will usually have them take what they bought home. It can stay in the classroom if it is something that can be used in here (ie. a pencil).

Birthdays: District policy prohibits distribution of food outside of lunch and two classroom parties per year due to allergy and health concerns. Any food sent for a child's birthday will have to go back home. Instead, goodie-bags with things like erasers, pencils, stickers, etc can be distributed for birthdays. Another idea is to give the classroom a gift, such as a book that can be read to the class at the end of the day. Thank you for your understanding as this will help ensure the safety of our students!

Morning drop-off: Students can play in the lower playground when there is a teacher present to supervise. Parents and siblings cannot be on the playground due to safety concerns and district policies. Please be aware that if you drop off your child after the bell has rang they will be marked tardy. If you drop off your child in the morning and our door is already closed, please make sure to get a tardy slip from the office. I usually take roll first thing when we come into the classroom.

Afternoon pick-up: Students that are not picked up in the classroom by 3:15 will be walked to the pick-up circle, pick up your child there.

Volunteers: For those willing to volunteer click on the Google document below. If you are interested in any positions described in the document please e-mail me with your request.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l_wxXJc6g5SnkjjCLfehhPtIuAKxBMynaYG6XxsRQRM/edit?usp=sharing

Back to School Night: Sept 13   6-7pm

 I look forward to seeing you all there! Please remember that back to school night is only for parents, students should not attend. 

Thank you for your attention please let me know if you have any questions J

First Week of School!

Hello Parents,

The first week of school has gone by so fast! I am so lucky to have this class and I am sure we will accomplish great things.

A couple of things:

Orange folders should go home daily with Behavior Chart and should be sent back to class daily.

Book Bags: All students should have taken a book back home starting Thursday (there were a a couple that forgot them). I will have them change their books every 2-3 days. I will be calling students to read with me at different times throughout the week. I will talk about this and moving up reading levels in more depth during back to school night.

Next Wednesday I will send out information about volunteering positions.

Our theme next week is "What do you do at your school?" and Counting using different kinds of tools (ie. number line, hundredths charts).

This month we will be focusing on Citizenship. The three main rules in our school are: Be Safe, Be Respectful and Be Responsible.

Reminder: There will be NO SCHOOL MONDAY September 4th in observance of Labor Day.

Have a great weekend!