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Friday, March 25, 2011
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Happy Spring!
Hello parents and students! Happy first day of Spring! We have a very busy week ahead of us. Monday and Wednesday are regular days for us with no interruptions.
Tuesday morning at 9:00 we have Play Day outside on the track. Our students will be competing against the other first grade classes in a number of relays. The students were able to choose the events in which they wanted to compete and they are each in 5 or 6 different relays. Parents are definitely invited to attend, so please come out and join us! Don't forget to sign in at the front office before you come out to the track! Another reminder...please make sure that your child is wearing sneakers on Tuesday. For safety reasons, he or she will not be able to compete in the relays if they are wearing any other type of shoe.
Thursday, we are going on our field trip to the JSO Sheriff's barn. Once again, please make sure your child is wearing his/her green Bartram Springs shirt (or another green shirt if you don't have the BSE one) and sneakers. Also, please make sure that you send a bag lunch and drink with your child. It is supposed to be fairly warm on Thursday, so if you would like to send an extra water bottle, that would be great! Also, it is extremely important that you have your child to school ON TIME on Thursday. We are leaving by 9:00 and if your child is not there, he/she will not be able to attend the field trip.
Finally, Friday is a teacher planning day and the start of Spring Break for the students. YAY!! We are all getting spring fever and it will be nice to have a little rest. Please make sure that your child reads every day over Spring Break. Also, please continue to ask him/her questions about what they are reading. Ask them to retell the story, ask them to name the characters, ask them to tell what happened at the beginning, middle, and end of the story. All of these questions require them to THINK about what they are reading. It will also let you know whether or not they are really understanding what they are reading. Word calling may sound like reading, but it isn't. Comprehension is the most important part of reading.
Have a wonderful week and enjoy your Spring Break! The secret word for this week is, of course, SPRING!!
Tuesday morning at 9:00 we have Play Day outside on the track. Our students will be competing against the other first grade classes in a number of relays. The students were able to choose the events in which they wanted to compete and they are each in 5 or 6 different relays. Parents are definitely invited to attend, so please come out and join us! Don't forget to sign in at the front office before you come out to the track! Another reminder...please make sure that your child is wearing sneakers on Tuesday. For safety reasons, he or she will not be able to compete in the relays if they are wearing any other type of shoe.
Thursday, we are going on our field trip to the JSO Sheriff's barn. Once again, please make sure your child is wearing his/her green Bartram Springs shirt (or another green shirt if you don't have the BSE one) and sneakers. Also, please make sure that you send a bag lunch and drink with your child. It is supposed to be fairly warm on Thursday, so if you would like to send an extra water bottle, that would be great! Also, it is extremely important that you have your child to school ON TIME on Thursday. We are leaving by 9:00 and if your child is not there, he/she will not be able to attend the field trip.
Finally, Friday is a teacher planning day and the start of Spring Break for the students. YAY!! We are all getting spring fever and it will be nice to have a little rest. Please make sure that your child reads every day over Spring Break. Also, please continue to ask him/her questions about what they are reading. Ask them to retell the story, ask them to name the characters, ask them to tell what happened at the beginning, middle, and end of the story. All of these questions require them to THINK about what they are reading. It will also let you know whether or not they are really understanding what they are reading. Word calling may sound like reading, but it isn't. Comprehension is the most important part of reading.
Have a wonderful week and enjoy your Spring Break! The secret word for this week is, of course, SPRING!!
Friday, March 11, 2011
Happy Weekend!
Good afternoon parents and students! I am updating the blog early this week in hopes to remind you of a few things for next week. First of all, please remember that you are invited to visit your child's music class on Monday, March 14th from 10:30-11:00. Ms. Dix, our music teacher, and our class have worked very hard on their performance and can't wait to show you! You will just need to sign in at the front office and they will direct you to the music room. We will go to lunch immediately after music, so if you would like, you are welcome to also join your child for lunch!
Next Wednesday, March 16th, we will be having Spring pictures and class pictures taken. Please remember that if you want to order your child's individual pictures, you must PRE-PAY in the envelope that was sent home earlier this week. A separate order form will be sent home for our class pictures. We also have P.E. on Wednesdays so if your child is wearing shoes for pictures that would be unsafe for P.E.or the playground, please send a pair of safe shoes for him/her to change into.
Finally, if you have books that your child is tired of reading, please consider donating them to our classroom library! We have all reading levels in our class and as long as they are at least Kindergarten level, we can get use out of them! Thanks so much!
Have a fabulous weekend! The secret words for this week are St. Patrick's Day!
Next Wednesday, March 16th, we will be having Spring pictures and class pictures taken. Please remember that if you want to order your child's individual pictures, you must PRE-PAY in the envelope that was sent home earlier this week. A separate order form will be sent home for our class pictures. We also have P.E. on Wednesdays so if your child is wearing shoes for pictures that would be unsafe for P.E.or the playground, please send a pair of safe shoes for him/her to change into.
Finally, if you have books that your child is tired of reading, please consider donating them to our classroom library! We have all reading levels in our class and as long as they are at least Kindergarten level, we can get use out of them! Thanks so much!
Have a fabulous weekend! The secret words for this week are St. Patrick's Day!
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Trivia Question
Good morning! The students have requested that I put the Eagle News Network trivia question on the blog this week since it is pretty long! The question is this: What is the name of the Confederate general who surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in 1865, ending the Civil War? If you choose for your child to look up this information and turn in the answer, it should be written on a sheet of paper with your child's first and last name and my name. It must be turned in by tomorrow. This is not mandatory, but a fun way for your child to practice finding facts on the internet!
Have a fabulous day!
Have a fabulous day!
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Happy Sunday!
Good afternoon! I hope you are all having a great weekend! I told the students I will not be at school tomorrow (Monday). I have to take one of my children to the doctor and it usually takes most of the day. They have a wonderful "guest" teacher and I am confident that all will go well!
You may have heard that we now only have 17 students. Khyle Ponds has left us to go out of state. We will miss his sweet smile tremendously, but we wish him and his family the best of luck in their new home and their new school!
On Monday, March 14th, you are invited to join your child in Music class. They have been working very hard on a surprise for you and would love for you to join them if you can. Our class goes to Music from 10:30 to 11:00.
We are taking our end of theme Benchmark Test this week for theme 7. We only have 3 themes left in reading! This year is just flying by! As a reminder, we do quite a few of our tests on Fridays and Mondays so if at all possible, PLEASE make sure your child is at school on these two days. If they are sick, that is completely understandable, but please try your best to have them at school. Our day is very packed, so it is difficult to find time for them to make up the tests as some of them are very lengthy.
Another reminder: A lot of our birthdays are coming up in the next couple of months. Please only send in birthday invitations for your child to pass out if they have invited the ENTIRE class. It causes hurt feelings when some children are invited and some are not. It puts me and your child in a very awkward position. If you are only inviting some of the children, please find another avenue to get them the invitations.
Now that we are finished with the celebration of Dr. Seuss, we are going to be hitting hard our next genre in writing. We are doing report writing and our topic will be animals. All of their work will be done in class, but if you make trips to the public library, it would be great if you could pick up a book or two on your child's assigned animal. As soon as we get to the point where the animals are assigned, I will let you know which one your child has chosen.
Have a wonderful week and please let me know if you have any questions or if there is anything here that is unclear! Secret word: nonfiction
You may have heard that we now only have 17 students. Khyle Ponds has left us to go out of state. We will miss his sweet smile tremendously, but we wish him and his family the best of luck in their new home and their new school!
On Monday, March 14th, you are invited to join your child in Music class. They have been working very hard on a surprise for you and would love for you to join them if you can. Our class goes to Music from 10:30 to 11:00.
We are taking our end of theme Benchmark Test this week for theme 7. We only have 3 themes left in reading! This year is just flying by! As a reminder, we do quite a few of our tests on Fridays and Mondays so if at all possible, PLEASE make sure your child is at school on these two days. If they are sick, that is completely understandable, but please try your best to have them at school. Our day is very packed, so it is difficult to find time for them to make up the tests as some of them are very lengthy.
Another reminder: A lot of our birthdays are coming up in the next couple of months. Please only send in birthday invitations for your child to pass out if they have invited the ENTIRE class. It causes hurt feelings when some children are invited and some are not. It puts me and your child in a very awkward position. If you are only inviting some of the children, please find another avenue to get them the invitations.
Now that we are finished with the celebration of Dr. Seuss, we are going to be hitting hard our next genre in writing. We are doing report writing and our topic will be animals. All of their work will be done in class, but if you make trips to the public library, it would be great if you could pick up a book or two on your child's assigned animal. As soon as we get to the point where the animals are assigned, I will let you know which one your child has chosen.
Have a wonderful week and please let me know if you have any questions or if there is anything here that is unclear! Secret word: nonfiction
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