What a week! I'm exhausted! I'm sure your children are tired too! The first week is always exciting and tiresome for all of us. It was a great week here in first grade and I think we all deserve a pat on the back for a job well done!
Congratulations to the following students who received STAR STUDENT awards this week:
Dean, Makaelyn, Tanaja, and Jaylan
What a great way to start first grade!
The brown bag biography was so fun for all of us. I love learning about my students' favorite things and what's important to them. I enjoy seeing what they bring to represent themselves. I learned a lot about them and hopefully they had fun gathering these items with you. I was SO PROUD of EVERYONE for sharing! It's not always easy to get up in front of everyone and speak but they all did a GREAT job!
Have a super duper weekend, First Grade Families!
Hugs & High Fives!
Ms. Bleich
Friday, August 26, 2016
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Back to School
Welcome back! We are on our third day of school now and things are going well!
We have been learning all about the rules and procedures in our classroom, and we reviewed the school rules and procedures at "Back to School Bootcamp." Lots of our friends are doing a great job of remembering these rules already!
We have read several fun stories this week such as:The Night Before First Grade, Pete the Cat Rocking in My School Shoes, Don't Eat the Teacher, There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Books, and Pete the Cat Too Cool for School. We have done several fun activities involving these stories, but our favorite was probably going on a scavenger hunt all over the school looking for Pete the Cat. We didn't find him, but did we worry? Goodness no! We just kept rockin' in our school shoes!
We have learned some fun math games to spark our number sense. The first graders have enjoyed playing these games with partners using my big foam dice!
Just a reminder, if you haven't read the information packet I gave you at Open House, please do so. There are answers to many of your questions in that packet.
Take home folders came home for the first time yesterday. They will come home every day and they need to come back to school every day. If your child puts things where I have told them, the papers that can stay home are on the left and papers that need to come back to school are on the right. You will also find plastic page protectors which I have labeled for you: Behavior Calendar, Reading Log, Spelling List, and Menu.
Check the behavior calendar every night to see how your child did at school that day. (The color code is on the calendar so you can see what each color means.) On the back I try to write a very brief explanation of what your child clipped down for if they receive a yellow or a pink. Please take the time to review that each night and discuss it with your child. I have been very lenient as far as the rules go these first three days. I continue to give extra reminders and warnings about our rules so that everyone can "catch on."
The Reading Log page protector is empty right now. That will be placed in your child's folder on Monday and a description of what to do with it will be in the folder that night, as well.
The Spelling List page is also empty right now. I will send home the first spelling list next week and the first spelling test won't be until the following week.
The school lunch menu stays in the page protector marked "Menu."
Specials this week and next week:
Monday- PE
Tuesday- Art
Wednesday- Music
Thursday- Library
Friday- Computer
"Brown Bag Biographies" are due on Friday, August 26. (These came home yesterday.) A few of our friends already completed this assignment and shared with the class today. Great job!
A note came home today regarding our classroom parties. Please fill out the form and send in $10 as soon as possible. This one-time fee covers the cost of ALL of our classroom parties for the year.
Thanks to all of you who have subscribed to our first grade blog. You will receive alerts when I post anything new.
Hugs & High Fives!
Ms. Bleich
We have been learning all about the rules and procedures in our classroom, and we reviewed the school rules and procedures at "Back to School Bootcamp." Lots of our friends are doing a great job of remembering these rules already!
We have read several fun stories this week such as:The Night Before First Grade, Pete the Cat Rocking in My School Shoes, Don't Eat the Teacher, There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Books, and Pete the Cat Too Cool for School. We have done several fun activities involving these stories, but our favorite was probably going on a scavenger hunt all over the school looking for Pete the Cat. We didn't find him, but did we worry? Goodness no! We just kept rockin' in our school shoes!
We have learned some fun math games to spark our number sense. The first graders have enjoyed playing these games with partners using my big foam dice!
Just a reminder, if you haven't read the information packet I gave you at Open House, please do so. There are answers to many of your questions in that packet.
Take home folders came home for the first time yesterday. They will come home every day and they need to come back to school every day. If your child puts things where I have told them, the papers that can stay home are on the left and papers that need to come back to school are on the right. You will also find plastic page protectors which I have labeled for you: Behavior Calendar, Reading Log, Spelling List, and Menu.
Check the behavior calendar every night to see how your child did at school that day. (The color code is on the calendar so you can see what each color means.) On the back I try to write a very brief explanation of what your child clipped down for if they receive a yellow or a pink. Please take the time to review that each night and discuss it with your child. I have been very lenient as far as the rules go these first three days. I continue to give extra reminders and warnings about our rules so that everyone can "catch on."
The Reading Log page protector is empty right now. That will be placed in your child's folder on Monday and a description of what to do with it will be in the folder that night, as well.
The Spelling List page is also empty right now. I will send home the first spelling list next week and the first spelling test won't be until the following week.
The school lunch menu stays in the page protector marked "Menu."
Specials this week and next week:
Monday- PE
Tuesday- Art
Wednesday- Music
Thursday- Library
Friday- Computer
"Brown Bag Biographies" are due on Friday, August 26. (These came home yesterday.) A few of our friends already completed this assignment and shared with the class today. Great job!
A note came home today regarding our classroom parties. Please fill out the form and send in $10 as soon as possible. This one-time fee covers the cost of ALL of our classroom parties for the year.
Thanks to all of you who have subscribed to our first grade blog. You will receive alerts when I post anything new.
Hugs & High Fives!
Ms. Bleich
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