7 days to go!

Specials

Monday - 6

Tuesday - No school!

Wednesday - 1

Thursday - 2

Friday - 3

Upcoming Events & Reminders
If you chaperoned on our zoo trip and took any fun photos and would like to share them for our end of year video, please e-mail them to me when possible. :) THANKS!

May 23 - 1st Grade Student-Lead Conferences
***New Date for Fun Day***

May 26 - Last Day of school! This day will also include our first grade awards in the classroom and a family picnic in the morning!
Part of our last week of school will include signing/decorating picture frames from our peers. I will be purchasing these $1 4x6 frames from the wooden craft section of Michaels. If you are able, please consider donating 1 or 2 of these frames to help us make our final first grade memories. 

HUGE thank you to those of you who have sent in picture frames or money donations. You never cease to amaze me with your giving hearts. It truly makes the biggest difference.

Kid Friendly Objectives

I can add and subtract.
I can compose shapes.
I can apply numbers to tell about me.
I can read, write, and identify words with aw and au.
I can write about first grade topics.
I can reflect on my school year.

Spelling Lists

None!!!
We are done with homework and spelling tests for the year :)
Please continue reading and writing at home.

Week in Review

Due to technical difficults (aka...Mrs. Carney dropped her phone too many times and needs to invest in a new phone case) we do not have pictures for this week. I am so sorry!

May 9-13, 2016

Specials

Monday - 1

Tuesday - 2

Wednesday - 3

Thursday - 4

Friday - 5

Upcoming Events & Reminders
If you chaperoned on our zoo trip and took any fun photos and would like to share them for our end of year video, please e-mail them to me when possible. :) THANKS!

May 14 - PTA Spring Carnival 2-7pm
May 16 - 1st Grade Musical (1:00 and 5:30 in the gym)
May 17 - No school (Election Day)
May 23 - 1st Grade Student-Lead Conferences
***New Date for Fun Day***

May 26 - Last Day of school! This day will also include our first grade awards in the classroom and a family picnic in the morning!
Part of our last week of school will include signing/decorating picture frames from our peers. I will be purchasing these $1 4x6 frames from the wooden craft section of Michaels. If you are able, please consider donating 1 or 2 of these frames to help us make our final first grade memories. 

Kid Friendly Objectives

I can compare stories.
I can solve double digit addition with regrouping.
I can read, write, and identify words with the oo spelling pattern.
I can correctly use the articles a and an.
I can write about Tomie dePaola.

Spelling Lists

None!!!
We are done with homework and spelling tests for the year :)
Please continue reading and writing at home.

Week in Review
We continued working on Money this week. We played a lot of different games like "Trade a Dime" to help us master the concept of 10 cents vs. 1 cent.

 We LOVED playing Bankrupt. I showed them how we could easily play this at home, if we wanted. To play, you roll a dice. The number on the dice tells you how many coins you have to pick up with your eyes closed from the center pile.

 When you've gathered your coins, you have to count the amount correctly. The bank (the other players) can determine if you are correct. If you are correct, you keep your coins. If you're incorrect, the coins go back into the pile. If you roll a 6, however, you don't get 6 coins. Rolling a 6 means you are BANKRUPT!!! All of your coins thus far must go back into the pile.

 We've got so many competitive learners. :) This game was SO much fun.

 We also spent the week working diligently on our Mother's Day calendar. I hope you loved it as much as they loved making it for you!

 At the end of the week, we had a special visit from George Ella Lyon. She showed us what motivates her to write, how she gets her ideas, and how a book even gets published in the first place! Can you believe that huge cloth is going to get cut and folded into a book?

 She sang us a special song she had written.

 She posed for a class picture - where I found out she works alongside one of my high school teachers! The kids feel like we're practically linked to a celebrity now! :)

 She inspired us to go back to our room and write some poetry about our experiences....this time, we focused on shape poems about animals we saw at the ZOO!

 Ellie worked SO hard. She had some amazing repetition and adjectives included in her work.

Here are a few pictures from the zoo...I saved the "good" ones for our end of year video! :)

May 2-6, 2016

Specials

Monday - 2

Tuesday - 3

Wednesday - 4

Thursday - 5

Friday - 6

Upcoming Events 

May 5 - 1st grade Field Trip to Cincinnati Zoo
May 6 - George Ella Lyon visits Wellington!
May 14 - PTA Spring Carnival 2-7pm
May 16 - 1st Grade Musical (1:00 and 5:30 in the gym)
May 17 - No school (Election Day)
May 23 - 1st Grade Student-Lead Conferences
***New Date for Fun Day***

May 26 - Last Day of school! This day will also include our first grade awards in the classroom and a family picnic!

Kid Friendly Objectives

I can read poetry.
I can understand and apply concepts of counting money (pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters).
I can read, write, and identify words with oi and oy spelling patterns.
I can read, write, and identify types of sentences.
I can write about a single topic.

Spelling Lists

None!!!
We are done with homework and spelling tests for the year :)
Please continue reading and writing at home.

Week in Review
"Money, money, money, mon-AY!" That song has been stuck in my head all week as we have studied coins in math workshop. In first grade, we are determined to learn the values of pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. We are also going to master the amounts of each of these coins and the various ways to make given amounts.

To start, we simply sorted our coins by name/look/value, etc. This helped us really figure out what the differences are between those pesky nickels and quarters.

 We shared what we noticed about each coin (this smart thinker noticed how some of our coins actually say their names!)

 We practiced skip counting and how to write the cent symbol.

 We also began balancing equivalent coin amounts. Next week, we will practice making specific amounts of coins. This will help us as we practice buying items worth a certain amount.

During Comprehension, we practiced telling the author's purpose for writing. We probably had the most fun with persuasion...we wrote letters to "Mr. Derby" about whether we thought other animals should be allowed to race in the Kentucky Derby.

 We learned about the "rough" letters that say, "OWWWWW!!!"

 But their favorite part of the week (I think) was learning about the Kentucky Derby. We've been in love with this fun horse and jockey that my grandmother cut out and painted for us! Impressive, right?!

We had a horse trainer visit us on Thursday. We could have sat outside and listened to her all afternoon! She gave us some great information and even let us ask our most pressing questions.

 This is the silk her jockeys use when they race her horses!

 Some of the different foods that horses can eat.

Let's have another great week!!!