March 7 - 11, 2016

Specials
Monday - 5
Tuesday - 6
Wednesday - 1
Thursday - 2
Friday - Arty Party Day

Upcoming Events 

March 11 - Arty Party Day (Nonrotation Day for Specials)
March 15 - Super Reader Night for 1st Grade! 5:30-6:30
***Make sure to RSVP!***
March 18 - Snow Makeup Day
March 28 - April 1 - Spring Break!
April 6 - Spring Pictures
April 8 - Snow Makeup Day 
April 11 - 15 - Book Fair!
April 13 - All Pro Dad's Breakfast
April 14 - Celebrate the Arts Night
May 14 - Spring Carnival 2-7pm
May 25 - Snow Makeup Day

Kid-Friendly Objectives
I can read, write, and identify words with r blends (gr, pr, tr, dr, pr, fr, etc.).
I can identify who is telling the story.
I can identify and use pronouns (he, she, it, they, etc.)
I can write a fictional story using a setting and characters.
I can solve word problems using subtraction.

Spelling List
Please continue to practice writing your spelling words in sentences! 

List A (Purple Cats, Green Frogs)
drip
drum
frown
free
price
grass
crab
crib
graph
trash

List B (Blue Dogs, Yellow Ducks)
fruit
friends
drink
prize
driving
triangle
dragon
graph
crocodile
practice

Week in Review
I know I say this every week but your kids truly blow me away with how wonderful they are! I tried to capture as many pictures as I could of their sweet faces and costumes for every day of Read Across America week but there is no way to express how absolutely lucky I am to spend every day with these kiddos. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for letting me spend every day with these first graders!

Monday started off with some Dr. Seuss silliness. We wore silly socks and immediately read "Fox in Socks!" We used it as an opportunity to brush up on our rhyming skills and write some seriously crazy Dr. Seuss style rhymes with a partner.

 
Tuesday was super silly...we came to school wearing all kinds of hats!

We read Cat in the Hat and learned how to draw one of Dr. Seuss' most familiar characters. The book left us with the question, "What would you do?" So...we wrote about it!

We squeezed in some practice with suffixes...while wearing mustaches.

On Wednesday, Amber Phillpott from WKYT made a special trip to Wellington to read "Oh the Places You Will Go" to ONLY the first graders! We found out she even put a short clip of us on the news that night!

On Friday, the first grade team reminded us that it can take a "village" to teach kids to read. :) 

Have a great week!