Friday Aug. 31

Thoughts from a few students:

We went to the computer lab today! -Ciklali

We learned about tens and ones, ten frames, and bundling in math. -Delaney

We read the story Chrysanthemum. It's about a mouse who loves her unique name. Then she starts school and the other students make fun of her name.
We each had a paper heart that we got to crumple up each time Chrysanthemum's feelings were hurt in the story. In the end, Chrysanthemum's music teacher makes her feel better about her name because she has a really long name too and her name is a flower also.
Then we wrote about the beginning, middle, and end of the story. -Hunter

Mrs. Powell's class invited us over at the very end of the day to watch the vide of Chrysanthemum. We really enjoyed it. -The Whole Class

We all got to go to the treasure box! - Caden

4th Day

I had a PB&J sandwich for lunch and we went to recess.- Camden

We went to the Media Center- Chloe

We played a math game with a partner where we rolled the dice and colored in the squares for the number we rolled.  The person who colored in the most squares won the game. - Ian

We read Manners at School and David Goes to School.  We used a Venn Diagram to write how the two books were the same and how they were different. -Grant

We read a book (Brand New Pencils and Brand New Notebooks) about a boy name Gilbert going into First Grade. He made a new friend and his little sister went to preschool and made a new friend too. -Delaney

We practiced writing the letters Gg and Hh.- Ciklali

Callie was our calendar helper.- Hunter

We colored our AR seahorses for the AR wall. - Emerald

We wrote as many numbers as we could on a hundred's chart. Some of our students wrote all the way to the number 200. -Madison

Third Day of School

We read The Crayon Box that Talked.- Delaney

We did our morning work.-Hunter

We did our calendar activities.-Camden

We talked about how we felt the night before school started and drew a picture.-Ty

We went to PE and met our new PE teacher. She's a girl! -Natalie

We did math.-Leyna

We played outside. It was hot!-Katelyn

We read a book called The First Day of School.- Callie

We did a making words activity and at math time we filled in a graph for how we go home.-Catherine

We learned the alphabet in sign language! -Chloe

We ran around the track once-Caden

Our First Day

We had a great first day in First Grade! Below are some photos of most of our activities today. I take a lot of pictures each day so I can share with you what we are learning.

• We drew a picture of ourselves on the first day of school.
• We went to music class.
• We reviewed the letters A and B. Then in our writing notebooks we practiced our handwriting and brainstormed words that started with those letters.
• We read a story called The Day the Monster Came to School. Then we sequenced 6 pictures from the story.
• We made class graph of how we go home.
• We had a fire drill. We read a story called, The Night Before First Grade.
• We practiced all our procedures such as "Hallway Procedures", "Lining up Procedures", "Carpet Procedures", "Cafeteria Procedures"...
• We learned about our behavior clip chart. Everyone had a "Super Student" day. :)
• Chloe is a friend in our class who has diabetes. She shared with us a wonderful book about diabetes and showed us how she checks her blood. The class was very interested and listened wonderfully to Chloe as she explained to the class. She was a wonderful teacher about diabetes. Great Job Chloe!
• We packed up to go home and everyone got in their bus, van, car, or made it to ACES smoothly.

Thanks to the kids for being such great listeners and hard workers. I can't wait for tomorrow! :)

Our Door

WELCOME

A little over a week until I get to welcome 21 sweet faces into my newly moved in to classroom! I moved to a bigger and better room over the summer. Long hours have been put it to make it perfect. (Well worth the time spent.) Thanks to my wonderful husband, my mom, and my two kiddos (Who am I kidding? The kids didn't help, if anything they sometimes made it harder...so Thanks to my Mother-in-Law for babysitting so I could go to school kid-free! Below are some photos of our classroom.