Welcome to my revised blog!

We have a big week ahead.

*Picture retakes Tuesday, November 12
   - second night of conferences

* Book fair - Our day to visit is Friday, November 15 at 12:30.

October 28, 2012

Here comes Halloween!!!

We are coming to a fun and exciting week. Kids get very excited during the week of Halloween. We will be enjoying the season this week along with our regular learning.

Our story this week is Pig in a Wig. A very fun, silly story. We will focus on Who helps Animals?

Our spelling words are:                                                                                               
in     it     did
sit    fix    lip
mix   pin  wig
she    take

Our sight words are: up, what, she, take, play

In math, we will continue exploring doubles +1 and doubles -1, adding and 10 and adding more.

Have a safe and happy Halloween.

October Birthdays - Happy Birthday, Avery!!

Week of October 15, 2012

We are already at the half way point in the month of October! We are really enjoying our new math program and the tools that go with it. We will be taking our second math test this week and beginning Chapter 3. This chapter continues learning and exploring addition and subtraction.

Our Reading Street story is Farmer's Market. We have noticed that our stories are getting longer now and we are reading more and more.

The sight words for this week are: for, go, me, here, where. The sounds we are reviewing are: u, q, v, y and z.

A good way for your child to practice sight word reading is a tool you can download to your computer called Sightword Buddy. You can download it free at this site: http://www.quiz-tree.com/sight-words-buddy.html

 I have used this game/tool in the past and students enjoy using it.

Looking forward to another great week!

Week of October 5, 2012

Welcome to October! We have a busy month ahead with lots of exciting things to look forward to.... Picture Day, Red Ribbon Week, COSI Science Assembly, and the Bookfair.

If you want your child's picture made at school, please return their picture money in the envelope that went home.

This week's Reading Street story is The Big Top. Our sight words:
are have  that  they two and the sounds we will focus on are: d  h  l  o. 

We will continue learning about subtraction in Math.

Mrs. Hale

9/17/2012

We are beginning our second full week of school. We continue to review and practice procedures. We have also been doing general assessments of our first grade students, checking letters, sounds and sight words.

Students seem to enjoy our new math program, Go Math. It has kept us very busy.

Here are the sight words from last week and those for this week:

Week 1                              Week 2

I                                                    we
see                                                like
a                                                   the
green                                            one

We are collecting Boxtops points to earn things for our school and our Fall Fundraiser started Friday.

Looking forward to another great week,

Mrs. Hale

Welcome Back 2012

I want to welcome you to First Grade!

We had a very good first week of school! It was busy and filled with learning-- how to line up for lunch, how to play safely on the playground, where to go for fire drills, where to line up for dismissal, etc., etc., etc.

We will continue to work on all those procedures as the weeks go on, but we will begin our reading and math this week.

Reading   Our focus is What is around us at home? We will review the letters and sounds of m, s, t and a. Our story is Sam.

Math   We will begin our new math program this week. Our focus will be how you can model adding within 10. 

We will be doing some diagnostic testing for the next week or two in addition to math and reading.

Thank you for your patience in the first week of dropping off and picking up your child.

I look forward to another great week in first grade!

Mrs. Hale