Your student was sent home with a GREEN conference sheet today. Please take a moment and fill this out and send it back to school as soon as you possibly can. I am now becoming aware that I have a lot of students who have siblings in the lower grades. I have been in contact with their teachers and we will work together to make the conferences times as feasible as we can. But, please be understanding if there is for some reason a chance that your children's conferences are either not scheduled on the same day or are more than 15-20 minutes apart on the same day. We are trying our best. Thank you for this cooperation. :)
Hello! Wow! What a week it has been. We have learned a lot and also perfected a lot of our routines! The kiddos have done a great job! We have learned all kinds of letters in our phonics lessons including n, o and t! We have learned about reading to someone and reading to self for our Daily 5 and also have learned about our expectations for 1st grade writing and 1st grade pictures for Writer's Workshop. In math we have learned about 5 groups and how to make numbers greater than 5 by making a 5 group and some more ones! We have also read lots of books about the alphabet and are becoming rock stars with our letters! I am so proud! We are doing FABULOUS in first grade! BUT... there are a few minor things we need to work on... 1. bathroom--our behavior in the bathroom hasn't been the greatest! We need to remember to use 1 pump of soap, 1 paper towel and that we go in, go to the bathroom and get out! 2. We also need to work on blurting out. We have RULE #2: Raise your h...