Classroom Celebration 2022
What a fun day we had together. Sledding on the fluffy snow, sharing gifts with friends and enjoying yummy snacks! Happy Holidays to all of you. Thank your sharing your amazing students with me :)
Thursday, December 22, 2022
Sunday, December 18, 2022
The Week of Dec. 12
Upcoming Events
Winter Concert
Dec. 20th @ 5:30
Students will meet in our room at 5:15 . They can leave their coats and boots in the classroom and return after the concert to get them.
Secret Santa Gift Making Workshop
Dec. 20th from 10-11
We will continue this fun tradition again this year! Each child will pick a name from a hat and make a special gift for that friend. Students will travel to different classrooms, and have the opportunity to work with other teachers and staff to make that special gift. At our holiday party on Thursday, we will exchange gifts!
Classroom Celebration/Sledding Party
Dec. 22
On Thursday, we will have a Classroom Holiday Celebration! We will exchange our handmade Secret Santa gifts with our classmates, enjoy some special treats and spend time outside sledding!
This year, I created a google doc for families. Please sign up if you can bring something to share at our Classroom Holiday Celebration.
Please bring your child's sled to school any morning this week (they can NOT be sent on the bus). I can store them in the classroom until our party. Families will need to pick up sleds at WES.
Writing Celebration
What an AMAZING way to celebrate our learning! Thank you to all of the families and staff who were able to come and support our wonderful students :)
I hope you were all able to see your student's comment poster and had a chance to read over some of the excellent comments left for each student!
Monday, December 12, 2022
The Week of Dec. 5th
Upcoming Events
Meet the Authors Celebration!
Dec. 13 @ 12:00-12:45
You’re invited to a special writing celebration! Our class has been learning to write Small Moments stories. We have edited, revised and published them like authors do! We want to read them to you! Come to our class on Tuesday, Dec. 13th @ 12:00 to meet the authors!
Winter Concert Date Change
Dec. 20th @ 5:30
Students will meet in our room at 5:15 . They can leave their coats and boots in the classroom and return after the concert to get them.
Fundations/Spelling
This week in spelling, we continued reviewing letter sounds and 4 sound words. We focused on digraphs and welded sounds. As a class we are learning about suffix endings. This week we learned about the suffix s and the different sounds it can make. We have new Power Words this week and students are practicing writing and reading these words each day!
Morning Meeting Share Time
Design Your Own Hat
The WES students have earned another whole school celebration! Students in the first and second grade class are using their PAWS each day. We will all wear our hats to Community Meeting on Dec. 16th.
Congratulations to all WES students :)
Readers' Workshop
In reading, we are meeting with our new reading partners to read our nonfiction books with fluency and expression! Students are meeting in their small reading groups each week to practice decoding strategies. Together we practice retelling our books and have learned to ask and answer questions about our books. Students have become more confident and independent while writing in their reading response journal.
Thank you Adrianna for the yummy reindeer cookies! They went so fast, I couldn't get a picture :)
Sunday, December 4, 2022
The Week of Nov. 28
**Colder weather has arrived and we hope to have some fluffy, white snow soon! Please pack mittens, hats, snow pants and boots each day. Thank you!
Upcoming Events
Report Cards Go Home
Dec. 9
Early Release Day @ 11:30
Dec. 9
Meet the Authors Celebration!
Dec. 13 @ 12:00-12:45
You’re invited to a special writing celebration! Our class has been learning to write Small Moments stories. We have edited, revised and published them like authors do! We want to read them to you! Come to our class on Tuesday, Dec. 13th @ 12:00 to meet the authors!
Winter Concert
**TIME CORRECTION BELOW**
Dec. 14 @ 5:30
Students will meet in our room at 5:00 . They can leave their coats and boots in the classroom and return after the concert to get them.
Fundations/Spelling
In spelling, we are reviewing digraphs ch, sh, wh, th and ck and welded sounds am, all and an. Students are using a variety of tools to help them read and write words with these spelling patterns.
Students build words with magnet boards, write on whiteboards and use words sorts to help identify spelling patterns.
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Readers' Workshop
In reading, the first and second graders are working on strategies for tackling hard words. This week, we practiced finding parts of words we knew ( am, an , ing ), ran our finger under tricky words to do a slow check, and thought about what word would make sense. We watched a fun Wild Kratts video and noticed how smooth and lively Martin and Chris talk about nonfiction topics. We practiced reading and rereading our favorite nonfiction books just like them!
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Writers' Workshop
This week, we began learning about writing nonfiction books. We began reading some great mentor texts that helped us identify how nonfiction books go, and their important elements. Students identified headings, table of contents, captions, important vocab, close-ups and glossaries. Next, week we will begin writing a class book together all about Lizzy our gecko.
First Grade Math
In first grade, we are continuing to build our addition and subtraction skills. We learned two new fun games to help build math fact fluency and fun! Drop the Beans and Sort the Sum were a fun way to practice.
In the coming week, we will review facts that make 10 and begin adding onto 10 i.e. 10+9=19. We will also review our doubles facts and build onto that knowledge by playing a game called doubles +1 -1.
Special Snack
Thank you for the brownies and chocolate chip cookies! They were so yummy:)
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