Remember that I will test on last week's spelling words tomorrow (the /or/ sounds). There are also two sentences that will be counted towards the final score starting this week.
Tomorrow we will be having a little classroom party, where we will be making turkey cookies. Thank you Dane, for provided Oreo cookies to help out. If any of you would still like to help donate something by tomorrow send me a quick e-mail and I can assign you something. We will be having the party around 2:30. If any of you would like to come and help with the cookie assembly I would love to have you.
When we get back from our Thanksgiving holiday, it will be December--crazy!! We will write letters to Santa that week, and have some wonderful elves from CHS help answer those letters. On December 2, we will be walking over to the Heritage Center for a violin concert by Jenny Oaks Baker. If you signed that coral paper about field trips that is all you need to sign. If you would like your child to opt out of this field trip please let me know.
A couple of other things that we will be doing in December is our annual first grade Gingerbread house making extravaganza! I will be sending home a note after Thanksgiving asking for donations for this activity. We will do that on Wednesday, December 17 in the morning, if any of you want to mark that date on your calendar and come and volunteer that day also. We will also be making a "secret" Christmas gift. If you could send your child with $1.00 to help with these gifts that would be appreciated. I encourage my students to do some kind of chore or service around the house to earn their "$1.00.
Your child will not have math homework this week. Today Mrs. Williams is teaching a lesson on subtraction stories and then we will work on fact families before getting back into our Go Math Lessons.
I hope that you all have a fabulous Thanksgiving Break. Travel safely--count your blessings--and enjoy time with family and friends! REMEMBER that the November Reading Record will be due after the holiday! Please turn this in to help our school reach 3,000,000 reading minutes, but more importantly read with your child for their benefit!
Happy Reading!
Monday, November 24, 2014
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
November 17 - 21
For this week's spelling test, I will have two dictation sentences included as part of the test. Please help your child with these sentences--I can tell most of you are, as I have been pleased with the majority of our spelling test results.
Tonight I sent home the math Chapter 3 Test Review homework. If possible could you please help your child with that tonight, as we will start testing Chapter 3 tomorrow. For Chapter 4 (subtraction strategies), our student teacher Mrs. Williams will teach lesson 4.1 and then we will focus on the concept of "Fact Families" (4 + 5 = 9, 5 + 4 = 9, 9 - 5 = 4. and 9 - 4 = 5) before we move to lesson 4.2. As that lesson deals with related facts, that my students do not have the necessary background knowledge for.
This week we will be doing a writing/art activity about Piligrims. We will write about about what Pilgrim can..., what Pilgrims are..., and what Pilgrims have... and make a boy or girl Pilgrim to display our writing.
We have a new visual arts teacher here at East Elementary, Mr. McDonald. He replaces, Mr. Seeley, our theater arts teacher who took another position at Fiddler's Elementary. Mr. McDonald has an art degree from the University of Utah and will be a great asset to our school. He will visit our classroom bi-monthly for 45 minutes and integrate the visual arts into our core curriculum. His first visit will be this Thursday. I am so excited about this as his expertise far outweighs mine in the area of art and art instruction :)
I can't believe I'm saying this (where is the time going), but we will have a little Thanksgiving party next Tuesday, November 25 before school dismisses for the holiday. We will have it in the afternoon after our computer time at approximately 1:30. We will be making "turkey cookies". I need various items for these cookies. Things like double-stuffed oreos, mini-chocolate chips, whoppers, icing among other things like that. If you would be willing to donate something for this activity, could you please contact me (e-mail is the best and I can assign you something or give you an option). Also, since I'm asking for donations we are about out of pencil top erasers. The next time you go to Wal-mart and feel inclined could you please buy a package of pencil top erasers for our classroom use. I would appreciate it!
Happy Reading!
Tonight I sent home the math Chapter 3 Test Review homework. If possible could you please help your child with that tonight, as we will start testing Chapter 3 tomorrow. For Chapter 4 (subtraction strategies), our student teacher Mrs. Williams will teach lesson 4.1 and then we will focus on the concept of "Fact Families" (4 + 5 = 9, 5 + 4 = 9, 9 - 5 = 4. and 9 - 4 = 5) before we move to lesson 4.2. As that lesson deals with related facts, that my students do not have the necessary background knowledge for.
This week we will be doing a writing/art activity about Piligrims. We will write about about what Pilgrim can..., what Pilgrims are..., and what Pilgrims have... and make a boy or girl Pilgrim to display our writing.
We have a new visual arts teacher here at East Elementary, Mr. McDonald. He replaces, Mr. Seeley, our theater arts teacher who took another position at Fiddler's Elementary. Mr. McDonald has an art degree from the University of Utah and will be a great asset to our school. He will visit our classroom bi-monthly for 45 minutes and integrate the visual arts into our core curriculum. His first visit will be this Thursday. I am so excited about this as his expertise far outweighs mine in the area of art and art instruction :)
I can't believe I'm saying this (where is the time going), but we will have a little Thanksgiving party next Tuesday, November 25 before school dismisses for the holiday. We will have it in the afternoon after our computer time at approximately 1:30. We will be making "turkey cookies". I need various items for these cookies. Things like double-stuffed oreos, mini-chocolate chips, whoppers, icing among other things like that. If you would be willing to donate something for this activity, could you please contact me (e-mail is the best and I can assign you something or give you an option). Also, since I'm asking for donations we are about out of pencil top erasers. The next time you go to Wal-mart and feel inclined could you please buy a package of pencil top erasers for our classroom use. I would appreciate it!
Happy Reading!
Monday, November 10, 2014
November 10 - 14
I hope that you all had a wonderful weekend. I just have a few items today.
In math, we are finishing our Unit #3 (Addition strategies) this week. Thank you for helping your child with their homework. Today the strategy is "Making a ten". This is where students "make a ten" in order to add. For example: 7 + 5 = 12. Students would "take" three from 5 to "make a ten" and then add 10 + 2 = 12 so 7 + 5 = 12.
The November Scholastic book order is due this Friday, November 14. Remember that I can hide any books that you might like to order for Christmas.
I sent home a field trip permission form for all field trips. It is on coral paper. Please read the note and sign the permission slip about the district's policy for field trips.
I am noticing a decline in the return of take-home books. Please read every night with your child. It's so important!
Since this is "thankful month", I want you all to know how grateful I am for my beautiful class of first graders. I love all of my students, and feel it a privilege to be their teacher. They bring joy into my life and it's so exciting to watch their growth in learning.
Happy Reading!!
In math, we are finishing our Unit #3 (Addition strategies) this week. Thank you for helping your child with their homework. Today the strategy is "Making a ten". This is where students "make a ten" in order to add. For example: 7 + 5 = 12. Students would "take" three from 5 to "make a ten" and then add 10 + 2 = 12 so 7 + 5 = 12.
The November Scholastic book order is due this Friday, November 14. Remember that I can hide any books that you might like to order for Christmas.
I sent home a field trip permission form for all field trips. It is on coral paper. Please read the note and sign the permission slip about the district's policy for field trips.
I am noticing a decline in the return of take-home books. Please read every night with your child. It's so important!
Since this is "thankful month", I want you all to know how grateful I am for my beautiful class of first graders. I love all of my students, and feel it a privilege to be their teacher. They bring joy into my life and it's so exciting to watch their growth in learning.
Happy Reading!!
Monday, November 3, 2014
Newsletter November 3 - 7
Welcome to November and snow! It's chilly outside and all students will go outside for break, unless snow or rain is falling from the sky or temperatures get way below freezing. Please send your children with proper warm clothing (coats, hats, gloves, boot etc.). This is especially important for lunch recess as it is longer break time.
We had a great Halloween. The kids and I were so excited, but we remarkably were able to complete a spelling test, and some "Halloween math" that day. I think the tradition of dressing up and having a costume parade will continue at East Elementary (at least I hope it will).
This week in math we are going to continue with Chapter 3. This is a unit where there are many addition strategies that are taught. Right now we are doing "double plus one". That is where there is an addition problem where the numbers are right next to each other on the number line (7 + 8). We are teaching the students to double the smaller number and then just add one (7 + 7 = 14 so one more than 14 is 15 or 7 + 7 +1). My student teacher Andria Williams will start teaching math today and will continue until she is finished with her time with us. She has been a great addition to our classroom!
We are going to start a Close reading unit on Spiders--I know I'm a bit behind (spiders would have fit better in October), but the students love this unit. Close reading is a way where students actually get into a text many times to find out certain focus points (author's point of view, non-fiction text features as examples). We will be reading from Gail Gibbons book Spiders for this unit. We will also be doing some list writing, and letter writing this month, and will specifically focus on what we are grateful for.
October home reading records are now due. I sent home a new November reading record today. That will be due the first day back in December. Please read with your child every night. Many of you are NOT regularly sending back your child's take home book. Please take advantage of this program. It will greatly benefit your child and your child's reading success. Your child should be working on at least Sight Word List #3. I also sent home new spelling words and a new Scholastic book order. That will be due November 14. If you would like me to "hide" and save any of those books for Christmas let me know.
I will post some recent pictures from Red Ribbon week and from Halloween. Scroll down to see them and...
Happy Reading!
We had a great Halloween. The kids and I were so excited, but we remarkably were able to complete a spelling test, and some "Halloween math" that day. I think the tradition of dressing up and having a costume parade will continue at East Elementary (at least I hope it will).
This week in math we are going to continue with Chapter 3. This is a unit where there are many addition strategies that are taught. Right now we are doing "double plus one". That is where there is an addition problem where the numbers are right next to each other on the number line (7 + 8). We are teaching the students to double the smaller number and then just add one (7 + 7 = 14 so one more than 14 is 15 or 7 + 7 +1). My student teacher Andria Williams will start teaching math today and will continue until she is finished with her time with us. She has been a great addition to our classroom!
We are going to start a Close reading unit on Spiders--I know I'm a bit behind (spiders would have fit better in October), but the students love this unit. Close reading is a way where students actually get into a text many times to find out certain focus points (author's point of view, non-fiction text features as examples). We will be reading from Gail Gibbons book Spiders for this unit. We will also be doing some list writing, and letter writing this month, and will specifically focus on what we are grateful for.
October home reading records are now due. I sent home a new November reading record today. That will be due the first day back in December. Please read with your child every night. Many of you are NOT regularly sending back your child's take home book. Please take advantage of this program. It will greatly benefit your child and your child's reading success. Your child should be working on at least Sight Word List #3. I also sent home new spelling words and a new Scholastic book order. That will be due November 14. If you would like me to "hide" and save any of those books for Christmas let me know.
I will post some recent pictures from Red Ribbon week and from Halloween. Scroll down to see them and...
Happy Reading!
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| Thank you PTA for our t-shirts! |
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| Nash and Zoie--dressed up as their heroes--their grandpa and grandma! |
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| Enoch and Kylee--dressed up as heroes for Red Ribbon week. |
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| Dane and Kaden's heroes are their dads! |
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| Sweet Kaitlee dressed up as "me"! |
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| Halloween fun! |
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