Report cards will be sent home with your student on the last day of school, June 5, 2015. Please take a minute or two to look through the manilla envelope as there is A LOT of information to watch for as well as good resources for summer learning opportunities. I highly recommend utilizing all that is offered to ensure that your student keeps up their hard work (with a little play mixed in there of course, that's what summer is for, right?). This is SO important! The "summer slide" is the hardest thing to bounce back from. I would hate to see my students, who might I add are all either at or above grade level in both ELA and Math, dip below grade level because they didn't read or practice math for THREE WHOLE MONTHS! Please keep this in mind. I and next year's teacher thank you immensely!! :)
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...