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Friday, November 2, 2018

Halloween Fun & Some Additional Tidbits

Halloween Fun!

The children had a wonderful fun filled Halloween afternoon on Wednesday! The children kicked off the Halloween festivities with a parade around the Dryden neighborhood. Thank you to everyone for coming out! After the parade and a short recess, we headed back to our classroom for our Halloween party. The children enjoyed a fun Picasso themed Frankenstein craft and then rotating through 3 stations: Halloween Bingo, Mummy Bowling, and Mummy Wrapping. Thank you to everyone who sent in supplies for our party: crafts, goodie bags, decorations, and games. A very big thank you to our five party volunteers, Mrs. Pellum, Ms. Miceli, Mrs. Carlson, Mrs. Manglaris, and Mr. Tosch. A special thank you to Mrs. Pellum and Mrs. Humann for your incredible job planning and coordinating everything for our party. The children had a great time! I hope you enjoy all the photos in the link below!

Click Here for Halloween Photos

Super Sentence Heroes

On Friday, the children turned into super sentence heroes! Each child created their own super sentence hero mask. Using their graphic organizers from earlier in the week, they chose one telling, asking, and exciting sentence to glue onto their mask. The children had a lot of fun with this activity and enjoyed sharing their sentences with one another.

Star Students

Thank you to our first three star students, Hailey, Mallory, and Jessica. We enjoyed learning more about each of you!

***Jessica's Photo Coming Soon***

Royal Readers

A special thank you to Hailey’s Mom & brother, Mallory’s family friend, and Jessica's Mom who joined us over the last several weeks as our Royal Readers. The children loved listening to the stories that you all read.

Happy Birthday

A very Happy Birthday to Bilal, James, Nate, Jessica, and Alex! We hope that you each enjoyed celebrating your special day!

A Few Reminders:

-As the weather continues to get colder, please be sure your child comes to school with appropriate outdoor gear. We do go outside for recess every day, unless it is raining or the wind chill is too cold. Please be sure that jackets, gloves, and hats are labeled with your child’s name. You would not believe how many black pairs of gloves there are! Labeling their gear allows me to match lost items with the correct children!

-The first grade musical is quickly approaching! It will be held on Wednesday, November 14th, with two performances, one at 2:45pm and an evening one at 7pm. Please be on the lookout for an email from Mr. Deptula with additional information.

-Progress Reports will come home on Friday, November 16.

-There is no school Monday, November 19th - Friday, November 23rd for the Thanksgiving holiday. School will resume on Monday, November 26th.

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Pumpkin Math & Pumpkin Decorating 2018

Pumpkin Math

Today, the children became pumpkin investigators as they used their pumpkin to complete a pumpkin math packet. The investigators began by estimating the height, weight, measurement, and number of lines on their pumpkin. Then using their investigative tools they found out the correct height, weight, measurement, and number of lines on their pumpkin. We even did an experiment to see if pumpkins sink or float. What do you think the answer was? Ask your child!

Click the link below to see all our Pumpkin Math fun!

Pumpkin Picking & Pumpkin Math

Pumpkin Decorating

Toe end the day, the children loved having a family member or volunteer come in to help them decorate their pumpkin. What a sight it was to see the children and volunteers hard at work creating so many different characters and animals out of their pumpkins. Thank you to everyone for coming and making this an enjoyable event for the children. The pumpkins looked fantastic! Thank you also to all of you who helped clean up the classroom after pumpkin decorating, I appreciate all your help! Enjoy all the photos from our fun filled decorating event! I hope you enjoyed yourselves as much as the children and I did!

Click below for all our Pumpkin Decorating Photos

Pumpkin Decorating Photos

Sunday, August 26, 2018

First Week!

Meet Our Class!

First Day Photos

Click Here to be taken to a link to view all our first day photos!

We had a great first week in 1-1! The children enjoyed getting to know one another through the sharing of their "All About Me" bags. They were surprised to learn that so many classmates had similar interests and hobbies.

Classroom Rules

As a teacher, one of my goals is to create a classroom environment where all students feel safe and valued. Last Tuesday, we worked together as a team to come up with our classroom rules. Discussing the rules together gives the children ownership and lets them actively decide what they want our classroom community to look like. The children did a wonderful job of coming up with rules that will make our classroom a safe and happy learning environment. The children came up with such a long list that we had to narrow the rules down. The five rules below encompass all the rules the children came up with.

Our Classroom Rules:

1. Listen to the speaker.

2. Raise your hand to speak or leave your seat.

3. Always be honest.

4. Be a caring friend.

5. Always try your best.

Routines

The children did a wonderful job going through our classroom routines and procedures last week. They have now learned how to solve some simple problems on their own (what to do if their pencil breaks, what to do if they have a question, where to put work when they are finished, what to do if they need a restroom break, etc.) They are now experts at going through: arrival, lunchtime, and stack and pack routines.

Reading/ Writing

The children listened to the story, A Bad Case of The Stripes. After, they created a picture of themselves with a bad case of something they love. Their projects are hanging outside our classroom in the hallway.

Later in the week, the children listened to the book, Have You Filled a Bucket Today? The children learned, everyone has an invisible bucket. We are at our best when our buckets are overflowing – and at our worst when they are empty. Everyone also has an invisible dipper. In each interaction, we can use our dipper either to fill or to dip from others’ buckets. Whenever we choose to fill others’ buckets, we in turn fill our own. The children completed a Bucket Filler/ Bucket Dipper sort and then completed a poster on how they are a bucket filler both at home and at school. You can view these in the hallway at curriculum night.

At the end of the week, they also brainstormed a list of all the things the will do as first graders. Then they completed a writing titled, First Grader At Last! Each student wrote about what they will do this year as first graders. After writing, they created a paper first grader to glue their writing to. You can view their writing project at Curriculum Night. They did an amazing job!

Math

This week, the children were introduced to our calendar procedures. They learned what they will do when it is their turn to be Calendar Hopper or Mathematician. We will begin our math curriculum this coming week.

On Thursday, the children brainstormed a list of what they think they will do as Mathematicians this year. Then, they created a mathematician project.

Notes:

~ Thank you for all your support at home and your help in making the start of this school year a great one!

~Thursday, August 30th is Curriculum Night. I hope you can join me in our classroom to learn about what your child's year in first grade will look like. K-2nd grade presentations are from 6:00-6:40 pm. This is an adults only event!

Have a great week!

Friday, June 8, 2018

A Big Thank You & Last Day Fun!

Thank You!

I can't believe that today is the last day of school. The year has gone by so quickly. I have enjoyed working with your children each and every day this year! They have grown so much! I am inspired by their love of learning, wonder, and curiosity! May they always keep that passion and excitement to learn! It has been my privilege to be their teacher! They have brought me many smiles and happy memories over the course of the year! Thank you to all of you for making this year a wonderful year. I appreciate all of our parent volunteers, you made the year extra special! I wish all of you a happy, relaxing, and safe summer! Please stop by and say hello next year!

Summer Birthdays
This week, we celebrated all of our June, July, and August birthdays. Happy birthday to Ben, Mackinzie, Miko, Ellie, Josie, and Charlie F! We hope that you all had/have very special birthdays on your special day!