8.23.19

Working Together!

Next Week:

SOCIAL/SPIRITUAL

Jesus Time - Adam & Eve and the Fall

Memory Work - 1 John 4:4

COMMUNICATION

Reading - Benchmark Assessments

Spelling - Lesson 2 /an/ pattern

Phonics - Locating sounds in words

Grammar - What a sentence needs

Literacy Stations - Working at stations independently!

EXPRESSIVE

Art - Piet Mondrian

Music

WELLNESS

PE - Throwing and Catching

Recess - Mileage Club

PVF Break

DISCOVERY

Math - Ordering and Matching

Social Studies - School and learning from each other

News and Notes:

Substitute Teacher
On Wednesday, Mrs. Gregory will be teaching the class and I will be taking turns meeting with each first grader to read with me.  I will do benchmark assessments so that I can find a good starting point for each of the kids!

No School

There will be no school on Friday, August 30th for a teacher's conference with area Lutheran schools.  There will also be no school on Monday, September 2, for Labor Day.

Spelling Test

We took our first spelling test today and it was a practice one.  I will send it home on Monday in your child's red folder so you can see how it is graded.  I usually won't send it home the following Monday, it will be in your child's Friday folder the following week.  However, I will send it home Monday for the first few weeks.  Please be sure to practice with your child writing all words with lower case letters except for the first letter in the sentence or special names once in a while.

CAR

If your child has CAR written at the top of any papers, please help your child fix the mistake and send it back in so I can recheck it.

PVF Break

The boys and girls have really enjoyed having a snack during the school day!  Just a reminder that it needs to be a Protein, Vegetable, or Fruit.  Please no bars (Kind, Larabar, granola, etc.) they often have extra sugar.  Also, no peanuts or peanut butter!

Developmental Scale

There may be some assessments that have letters from our developmental scale on them:

P proficient- consistently at grade level

NP near proficient - initial signs of understanding but not consistently at grade level

N not proficient - consistently not at grade level

Photo Gallery:

We made a book about Creation!

We practiced reading, making and writing words we see all the time!

We are so proud of our footies!

Practicing our spelling sentence!

Indoor recess fun!

Representing numbers with towers

More 5 in a bag!

We sure do love playing Bobcat Pit!

We practiced our literacy stations!

We read Mouse Paint and learned about primary and secondary colors - 

first, we made mice out of clay!

We finished our hikers!  We are almost ready to start Bobcat Mountain!

Ordering numbers!

We learned how to use the listening app on the iPads!

We highlighted words we were looking for in a poem!

We used our literacy/play station schedule to practice our play stations.

Reading Buddies

Observation Window

Create Station

Hermit Crabs

Building Station

Puzzles at the Round Table

We observed our Hermit Crab and came up with things we wondered about crabs and put them on the Wonder Wall!

Our student of the day leads us in our Math Meeting!

Throwing and catching in PE

To finish our Mouse Paint art project, we mixed the primary colors the way the mice did to get secondary colors.  Our mice helped us too and got a little paint on themselves! ;-)

It was a fun week!