September 12-16, 2016

Specials
(Refer to your flipbook for a reference of what each day is)

Monday - 3

Tuesday - 4

Wednesday - 5

Thursday - 6

Friday - 1

Upcoming Events & Reminders
Homework needs to come back in the blue folder every day.
September 9-26 - PTA Bumblebee Fundraiser
September 14 - Field Trip to Evan's Orchard - WEAR YOUR WELLINGTON TSHIRT!
September 19-23 - Bookfair
September 21 - All Pro Dad's Breakfast 6:30-7:15am
September 22 - Grandparents Day Lunch
October 4 - PTA family Night @ Burger - Fi!

Wish List items:

electronic pencil sharpener

magnetic tape

Spelling Lists

jet

men

yes

web

get

Teacher's App of the Week

Here is a "teacher recommended" app that will help your first grader practice a skill that we are working on.

Sight Word Ninja is a free app in the style of Fruit Ninja! Use this fun app as a way to reinforce sight word fluency at home.

Kid-Friendly Objectives
I can write about a small moment.
I can read, write, and identify short e words.
I can write a complete sentence with proper capitalization and punctuation.
I can identify the characters in a story.
I can identify the setting of a story.
I can fluently add within 10.

Week in Review
I hope you've had a restful weekend! Here is a fun look back at the hard work we put in this week.

Can you believe we're already at a "review" week? We reviewed the types of nouns: person, place or thing. To take it a step farther this week, we had to practice finding nouns within sentences!

We introduced 2 new jobs this week: Calendar Helper and...

 Morning Work Helper! Some serious independence in first grade! :)

We are still getting in the swing of our daily schedule so my groups who met with me during Daily 5 were learning some of their Word Work options.

These kiddos are learning how to "Pyramid Write" their spelling words.

These girls are doing Rainbow Writing for their Word Work!

We practiced how to share our Writing pieces during Writer's Workshop! We are about to begin our big Personal Narrative piece and it is so important to receive feedback about our hard work.

We practiced our addition strategies in Math this week. To wrap it all up, we built a LIFE-SIZE number line from 0-100!

Talk about some serious teamwork!

Have a great week! :)

September 6-9, 2016

Specials
(Refer to your flipbook for a reference of what each day is)

Monday - NO SCHOOL!

Tuesday - 5

Wednesday - 6

Thursday - 1

Friday - 2

Upcoming Events & Reminders
Homework and Spelling Tests start this week. Homework needs to come back in the blue folder every day.
September 5 - NO SCHOOL!
September 6 - PTA Family Night @ Chick Fil A in the mall
**Please return your field trip permission slips on this date!**
September 8 - Jon Agee Author Visit 
September 9-26 - PTA Bumblebee Fundraiser
September 14 - Field Trip to Evan's Orchard
September 19-23 - Bookfair. 
September 21 - All Pro Dad's Breakfast 6:30-7:15am
September 22 - Tentative Grandparents Day Lunch
October 4 - PTA family Night @ Burger - Fi!

Wish List items:

*magnetic tape (it looks like a tape dispenser but the tape is magnetic!)

Spelling Lists

tug

sun

nut

fun

rug

*snug

*slug

* signifies bonus words.

Teacher's App of the Week

Here is a "teacher recommended" app that will help your first grader practice a skill that we are working on this week. 

Kids A-Z is an app that we use constantly in the classroom. Download this app for a simple way to see on-level texts for your child.

The teacher username you will need is: acarney8

Find your child's account in our class page and their password is the picture of the bunny.

Kid-Friendly Objectives
I can write about a small moment.
I can read, write, and identify short u words.
I can identify common nouns in a sentence.
I can identify a story's central message.
I can solve an addition problem using different strategies.

Week in Review
We made it through another full week of school! I hope you are able to relax and celebrate by spending time with your family over this long, holiday weekend. :) Your first grader worked so hard this week they absolutely deserve that extra time outdoors!

Here is a fun look back at our week.
We learned the entire phonics dance!! We are able to get some of our wiggles out before starting phonics each day by saying the chants for all of the letters. Soon we will be adding chants and dances in for other common spellings. This week, our focus was on short i.

For Language, we talked about MINTS.

We even enjoyed some mints while checking some "brain-burp" sentences to fix those funky capitals.

These girls are using "COPS" to fix their sentences.

 Sadie was fixing some of our sentences on the board!

We continued building our reading stamina for Daily 5.

We started using Book Buddies.

 We learned how to do READ TO BUDDY!!! (and how to lounge in the Big Joe chairs in our class library!)

Probably the most exciting of all...We learned how to use IPADs!! We love to use iPads to help us during Daily 5 and during math groups. This group was checking out Sight Words Ninja

We were able to work so hard on Daily 5 that we actually made it to all of our small groups on Friday! 

The last rotation we have left to learn is Word Work. After that, Daily 5 will be in full swing!

Our focus during Comprehension was on Retelling. 

We used strategies like the 5-Finger Retell

and the retelling rope.

Here are some of the stories we focused on this week:

By the end of the week, we were able to make our own Stellaluna bats to tell the BME (Beginning, Middle, End)

Math was JAMPACKED. We are working to become fluent on ways to make 10.

One of our favorite ways is playing "Shake and Spill."

At the end of the week, we started our Rainbows to 10 Addition Facts. We will finish this up on Tuesday. :)

Thank you for letting me spend another week with your first grader!

Aug. 29-Sept. 3, 2016

Specials

Monday - 6 (PE)

Tuesday - 1 (Art)

Wednesday - 2 (STEM)

Thursday - 3 (Technology)

Friday - 4 (Music)

Upcoming Events & Reminders
August 29 - 1st Grade Curriculum Night. 
September 5 - NO SCHOOL!
September 6 - PTA Family Night @ Chick Fil A in the mall
September 8 - Jon Agee Author Visit 
September 9-26 - PTA Bumblebee Fundraiser
September 14 - Field Trip to Evan's Orchard (More info soon!)
September 19-23 - Bookfair. 
September 21 - All Pro Dad's Breakfast 6:30-7:15am
September 22 - Tentative Grandparents Day Lunch
October 4 - PTA family Night @ Burger - Fi!

Useful Links
First Grade Curriculum Night: Click here to RSVP! :)

 Sign up for Remind texts with this link! 

Wish List items:

*magnetic tape (it looks like a tape dispenser but the tape is magnetic!)

Teacher's App of the Week

Here is a "teacher recommended" app that will help your first grader practice a skill that we are working on this week. 

Franklin's Friends of Ten is a free app that will help your first grader practice the ways to make 10 in a fun, engaging way!

Don't worry - IT'S FREE!!!

I'll be introducing this to the class sometime this week, too! :)

Kid-Friendly Objectives
I can choose a topic.
I can read, write, and identify short i words.
I can use capital letters.
I can retell a story.
I can make 10 in many ways.

Week in Review
Now that the official business is out of the way, let's get to the FUN STUFF!

We did it: our first 5 day week of first grade. Are you feeling it? I know I did come Saturday morning! We made SO much progress towards making our way into our normal routines. Here's a glimpse into our classroom. :)

We want to become better writers. Real authors practice writing every day - and we want to be real authors! One of our daily 5 choices is Work on Writing. The best part of Work on Writing is that it doesn't have to be done at your desk!

We also continued to practice Read to Self. We made it to OVER 15 MINUTES IN STAMINA!!!!!

We were able to make our Daily 5 choices (between work on writing and read to self) for the first time on Friday!

In Writer's Workshop, we learned the three steps to writing a story:

1. Choose a topic.

Here we are gluing our heart maps into the middle of our writing journals. We use these heart maps to keep our favorite topics close to our hearts!

2. Draw a picture. Kali was drawing a beautiful picture of a field trip she took in Kindergarten!

Step 3: Write it out! (We practiced this but we'll get more into it next week). 

We got our spelling dictionaries as one step to practicing COPS. Capitalization, Organization, Punctuation and Spelling are important to keep our writing from breaking the law!

Our vocabulary word to piggyback on respect from last week was kindness. Here are some of the texts we read to help us understand it more clearly.

Lily learned that sometimes, "Today wasn't a good day. Tomorrow will be better." 

We learned everyone has an invisible bucket above their heads! Huh?!?! Ask your first grader for more details :)

Here are some of the notes that were OVERFLOWING our class bucket.

This book introduced our first grade project. We each decorated a quilt square to show how we can be kind. It will be hanging up soon!

We learned the first two choices for Math Centers. These two girls are working on putting together a hundreds chart puzzle to help them practice counting to 120.

Groups at my table worked on ways to make 6, 7, and 8 with ten frames, cubes, and rekenreks.

(This shows 4+2=6).

Sometimes Mrs. Carney takes the picture too soon...

All of the kids wanted me to pass along how to make a rekenrek at home. They LOVED it!

-foam sheet

-2 pipe cleaners

-10 blue pony beads

-10 red pony beads

Put 5 of each color on each pipe cleaner. Poke it through the foam board, secure to the back. 

by the end of the week, we were cracking up at Spill the Beans!

(2+4 = 6)

Thank you SO much for all of your kind feedback on the blog. I hope it helps you have a clear picture of what we are working on each week in the classroom. Your first graders take so much pride in their work and learning and it is my pleasure to share it with you each week. :) 

Have a great week!!