First and Second Grade Laptop Learners!
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Monday, October 26, 2020
The Week of Oct. 19
Upcoming Events
Parent/Teacher Conferences -Oct. 27 and 28
Please contact Ms. Debbie to schedule a conference!
First Day of Computer Work at Home -
Wednesday Oct. 28
Early Release Day- Friday, Oct. 30 @ 11:30-
Students will eat lunch and then be dismissed. There will be NO after-school program on Friday.
Book Orders Due
Friday, October 30
REMOTE DAYS
On Oct. 28, your child will begin using their laptops at home on remote days. For the first few weeks, we will begin by using Dreambox a math practice app, and EPIC our online library. All students have the EPIC icon on their desktop and can access it from there.
Your child will have a TECHNOLOGY menu which I will put in the back of their home-folder. This menu will have their usernames and passwords. I will send out an assignment packet each week just as we did all along including their work for "homedays".
LAPTOPS NEED TO BE RETURNED TO SCHOOL ON YOUR STUDENTS' NEXT SCHOOL DAY :)Technology Update
The first and second graders are learning to safely handle and use their laptops. This week we focused on:
- Carrying our laptops
- Navigating the keyboard
- Using the touchpad
- Using the touchscreen (some laptops have this feature)
- Turning on and off
- Logging onto laptops
- Using EPIC and Dreambox apps
- Cleaning our laptops safely
By meeting these classroom expectations, students are working on earning their Laptop Learners License!
Readers Workshop
This week, we chose new books to read during readers' workshop and worked on reviewing the Habits of a Good Reader! We are working on reading stamina and have been setting goals for our reading each day. We really loved checking out EPIC and reading some fun books!
Writing Workshop
Our little authors are working hard on their small moment stories! This week, we organized our writing folders and learned about elaboration. Students created a red sticker and a green sticker for their folders. The red side will hold stories that are finished, and the green side will hold those that we are still working on. We looked through all of our stories and noticed ways we could go back to add more detail. This week, we added more to our pictures!
HOPES AND DREAMS
I can't wait for you to see them at Parent/Teacher Conferences
Math
In math, we tried out a new station which the kiddos LOVED! This week we explored 3D shapes with building blocks and polydrons. We continue to work on subitizing and recognizing sets without counting. We also explored DREAMBOX and enjoyed playing some fun games!
Thursday, October 15, 2020
October Book Order
Oct. 15, 2020
Dear First Grade and Second Grade Families,
October book order catalogues are here for this month. There
is a great selection of books and a wide range of reading levels. If you wish
to order, please look through the flyer and return the order form and a check
made out to Scholastic. Please use the
code below to access our classroom online. Just visit https://clubs.scholastic.com and enter in LDRGD. All
orders will be due by Oct. 30th.
PBIS Classroom Celebration
Congratulations First and Second Grade!
We can clean up and pack up quickly, quietly and safely at the end of the day.
The first and second graders would like to have Pajama Day on 10/20 and 10/23 to accommodate both Group A and B Students. Students can wear their pajamas and slippers to school if they would like to! We are so excited!
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
The Week of October 5
First and Second Grade
Related Arts Schedule
Monday- P.E. Class and Library Class
( Return your library books on Monday)
Tuesday- Music Class
Thursday- P.E. Class and Guidance Class
Friday- Art Class
Wednesday Check-in
Please be sure to check for your attendance/check-in email on Wednesday mornings! Ms. Debbie and I will be using this to take attendance. Your child will be marked absent if we don't receive a response. Thank you!
Upcoming Events
No School- OCt. 16
Parent Teacher Conferences- Oct. 27 and 28
Oct. 27-3:00-5:00 Oct. 28. 12:00-6:00
Early Release Day- Oct. 30
(Students will eat lunch and then be dismissed @ 11:30)
It looks like teachers are able to use their laptops and phones in school again. I wasn't able to snap any pictures of the kiddos this week, but hope to do so soon! :)
Parent/Teacher Conferences
This year, I will be holding parent/teacher conferences on Oct. 27 and 28th via Google Meet, Zoom or over the phone. We will have a chance to talk about your child's strengths and areas of improvement in: social/emotional learning, mathematics, literacy, and have a chance to go over their fall assessments. We can set goals together and I will have time to answer any questions you have. I hope to have time to share information about Seesaw and Epic. I will be sharing a conference schedule with Ms. Debbie in the office. Please contact her to set up a time. If Oct. 27th or 28th don't work for you, please let me know and we can set something else up! Thank you for all you do to support your children!
Mind Up/Social Emotional Learning
Readers' Workshop
In reading we are building up our "good reading habits". This week we worked on doing something at the end of each book. Students practiced reading a book again, rereading their favorite part or retelling the whole story from beginning, middle to end. On Friday, we read from our National Geographic magazine and learned that we can learn lots of information from the pictures and the text!
Writers' Workshop
The first and second graders really like writers' workshop already! On Tuesday, we worked on our pre-assessment for our upcoming unit on small moments stories. We wrote about our favorite activity to do during our favorite season. Later in the week, we read a mentor text which is helping us get to know how narrative stories should go! Our favorite book so far is The Night of the Veggie Monster by Andrew Clements!
Technology Update
I am excited to begin working on our new laptops next week. We will begin by learning computer handling skills, navigation of the keyboard, how to log-on and proper shut down procedures. Later, we will begin to use Seesaw and Epic. Epic is one online library we will use in class. I will share more with you at our parent/teacher conference!
Math
In math, we are working on combinations of ten. We are using many different manipulatives from our math boxes. We are working more and more on subitizing and using our number racks efficiently. We love our daily counting practice, and this week we are working on counting to 120 by 1s and 10s.
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
The Week of Sept. 29
First and Second Grade
Related Arts Schedule
Monday- P.E. Class and Library Class
( Return your library books on Monday)
Tuesday- Music Class
Thursday- P.E. Class and Guidance Class
Friday- Art Class
Upcoming Events
No School- Oct. 16
Early Release Day 11:30- Oct. 30
(Students will eat lunch and then be dismissed)
Hopes and Dreams
This week, we worked more on our Hopes and Dreams for the year. Students brainstormed ways they wanted to improve this year. We wrote out our goals and made a cool cloud display in our room. We will use these goals to form our First and Second Grade rules and expectations that will help support students in achieving their goals for Trimester I.
Putting Your Best Foot Forward
We read the book How Full is Your Bucket by Mary Reckmeyer and Tom Rath. Students noticed when they put their best foot forward they help fill others buckets. Together we made our own buckets and have really enjoyed writing notes to our friends sharing ways we notice them being kind and helpful! Our students are making our world a better place :)
Readers' Workshop
The first and second graders are developing some great reading habits! This week, we worked on identifying just right books, making a reading plan and building our reading stamina. On Mondays, Ms. Marie is doing her best to select books of high interest and at a just right reading level for our kiddos. Students keep their books for the week and on Thursdays we place them in our BOOK REST tub for 3 days of quarantine. Ms. Russin has finished up our Fountas and Pinnell Reading Assessments and I will begin small group/individual instruction in the coming weeks.
FUNdations
We are working on a review of letter names and sounds, formation of lowercase letters and have begun using our cool new magnet boards! In the coming weeks, we will begin working on word building and TRICK words. Trick words are tricky because they don't follow the regular spelling rules! Trick word examples are: was, the, are etc.
Fall CRAFTIVITY
On Friday, we read a fun fall poem! Students loved checking out different kinds of poems and noticed lots of great details (rhyming, poem looked like falling leaves, and rhythm). We read the poem together and made up movements for different parts. Later we explored different kinds of leaves and did some leaf rubbing!
Math
In Math, we are working on subitizing with our eyes. We are using ten and twenty frame cards to quickly group dots to tell the total amount. We have played a lot of fun subitizing games and practiced counting by 5s. We also have learned a few new station activities: Geoboards and Ten and Some More. These first graders are so much fun to work with! We LOVE math time!
Monday, September 28, 2020
The Week of Sept. 21
Our view from the recess field!
**Please send a change of clothes (including socks) to school! Also, rain boots are encouraged! We do take lots of mask breaks throughout the day and our socks and shoes get wet and soggy**
Upcoming Events
Picture Day - Sept. 29 Please send your child's envelope to school on Sept. 29
Book Order Due- Sept. 30
Please look through the flyer and return the order form and a check made out to Scholastic. All orders will be due by Sept. 30, or you can access our account online and enter the user code below.
CLASS CODE
LDRGD
Technology Update
I am hoping to begin computer handling, care and safety with the first and second graders soon. We are still waiting for our computer cases and chargers. When those supplies come in, and students have demonstrated computer safety, we will begin taking home our laptops. Our class will be using Seesaw! I have used this platform for years and really LOVE it!
PBIS Puzzle
This week, we uncovered more of our whole school PBIS puzzle. The first and second graders are working so hard and learning about our PAWS rules in class. We have a pretty good idea of what our whole school reward will be... :)
We are also making our own PAWS booklet in class. Students are working to brainstorm ideas, write and draw to show their thinking.
Art Class with Ms. Jenni
Readers' Workshop
This week, we took a reading survey to identify the genres of books we enjoy reading! Ms. Marie was an amazing book shopper and selected books for each child. During readers' workshop, we set our class expectations. Our class has worked to read words and pictures, stay in our reading spot the whole time, have a quiet voice and clean up and take care of our books. Each day we work to read for a bit longer. On Friday, each child got their own National Geographic magazines to keep in their book bags. Ms. Russin is also working with each child to do some early reading assessments. This will help us plan for upcoming reading and strategy groups.
Math Time
In math, we have begun working at our math stations! Each child has their own math tool kit with the materials they need. It is a bit different this year as we are not able to play games with each other but we are making the best of it!
We are enjoying our daily counting practice... so far we have counted forwards and backwards from 30, all the way to 120 and have learned a fun counting by 2s song! We made a popsicle graph and asked lots of questions like:
How many people voted for each popsicle, how many more people like cherry than orange and some kids even came up with their own questions.
Here are some photos from our stations!
Dominoes, Pattern Shapes, and Unifix Cubes
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