Our Star of the Week this week was Student #10. We learned that Student #10 has 2 brothers and 3 sisters. They are all older than she is. She has 3 pet cats and 3 pet dogs at home. Their names are Gracey, Andy, and George for the cats and the dog’s names are Summer, Sammy, and Tess. Her favorite color is pink and her favorite school subject is PE. When she is not in school she likes to play with her Barbies. Student #10's favorite animals are horses. Her favorite TV show is Tom and Jerry. She has a rock collection. She plays T-ball in the summer. Her favorite food is cheese pizza. Student #10 celebrated her 7th birthday on Wednesday, March 16th. We enjoyed learning a little bit more about Student #10. Our next star of the week will be Student #9 next week.
Happy Birthday, Student #10!
Student #9 will be celebrating his 7th birthday on Sunday, March 20th.
Happy Birthday, Stiudent #9 !
The first graders are doing an awesome job of reading to meet their reading goal for Camp Read-A-Lot. As of Thursday afternoon they have read 1036 books leaving them with only 364 more to go to meet the 1400 book goal.
Please mark your calendars for Monday, March 21st. The annual spring music concert will be held at the High School at 7:00.
Mark your calendars for Saturday, March 26th. Washington Township’s Family Fun Night will be held at the school that evening. The first graders will be making a Chocolate Lover’s Basket.......so be on the look out for all things chocolate to help fill the first grade basket. We have a some boxes of chocolates, chocolate covered raisin, a couple of packets of hot cocoa, some Lindor Truffles, a chocolate recipe box, a German chocolate cake mix, and some Ghiradelli chocolates. I will be buying a basket this weekend and continuing to collect chocolate themed items all of next week.
If you ever have any concerns or questions, please let me know. You can call me at school or shoot me an email and I will respond as quickly as possible. I would rather answer questions and concerns when they are small rather than let them snowball into a huge problem.
Check out the First Grade Blog to see more of the happenings of the week.
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We will have our next spelling test next Friday, March 25th. If you want a head start on the new words they are:
1. checking
2. missed
3. filled
4. sleeping
5. landed
6. telling
Challenge Words
7. bluffing
8. planted
Art News
The art fundraiser is here! Students will be coming home with a packet that will include their art, a brochure, a letter explaining the process of ordering and also includes prices of items, and an order form. If you plan on ordering something have your child return their artwork along with payment and order form to their classroom teacher no later than March 25!
Another reminder for everyone to attend the FIRST ANNUAL ART SHOW starting at 6:30 p.m. on March 21st before the spring Music concert located in the high school gymnasium.
Student #19 celebrated his 7th birthday on Wednesday, March 9th.
Happy Birthday, Student #19!
Mrs. Caskey came on Wednesday for a short time. She read the book “An Egg is Quiet” and then went on to talk about hummingbirds. We learned that hummingbirds are very small........only as big as a stick of gum and that they weigh as much as a penny. We also learned that even though they are small, they still migrate........sme of them as far as to the Gulf of Mexico. Mrs. Caskey also shared a hummingbird nest. It was quite small.
The first graders are becoming quite the reading machines. The fifth graders have continued to come and help out with giving labeled book tests, but I am also transitioning the first graders into doing their own tests. As the end of the year approaches and the there may be more and more times when it is not possible for the fifth graders to help out, so the independence of the first graders will be very helpful.
The first graders are making great strides in reaching thier reading goal. As of Wednesday at the end of the day they had read and passed tests on 865 books. They only have 535 to go by the end of the year. I think this goal is definitely doable.
Please mark your calendars for Monday, March 21st. The annual spring music concert will be held at the High School at 7:00.
Mark your calendars for Saturday, March 26th. Washington Township’s Family Fun Night will be held at the school that evening. The first graders will be making a Chocolate Lover’s Basket.......so be on the look out for all things chocolate to help fill the first grade basket.
If you ever have any concerns or questions, please let me know. You can call me at school or shoot me an email and I will respond as quickly as possible. I would rather answer questions and concerns when they are small rather than let them snowball into a huge problem.
We will have our next spelling test next Friday, March 18th. The new words are:
1. cow
2. now
3. house
4. down
5. found
6. out
Challenge Words
7. pouch
8. crowded
Art News
The art fundraiser is here! Students will be coming home with a packet that will include their art, a brochure, a letter explaining the process of ordering and also includes prices of items, and an order form. If you plan on ordering something have your child return their artwork along with payment and order form to their classroom teacher no later than March 25!
Another reminder for everyone to attend the FIRST ANNUAL ART SHOW starting at 6:30 p.m. on March 21st before the spring Music concert located in the high school gymnasium.
Our Star of the Week this week was Student #12. We learned that Student #12 has 6 sisters and 7 brothers. She has two dogs at home called Shorty and Snow. Her favorite color is red. Her favorite school subject is Art. When she is not in school she likes to play with her dolls. Her favorite animals are zebras. Her favorite book is a Little House on the Prairie book called Going West. She really doesn’t have any favorite foods. She has a rock and a seashell collection. She likes to play the game of Life. Student #12 also celebrated her 7th birthday on Wednesday, March 2nd. We enjoyed getting to know Student #12 a little bit better.
Happy Birthday, Student #12!
Mrs. Caskey came on Wednesday. The topic of discussion this time was eagles. We learned that eagles usually lay 2-4 eggs and of those they have an average of 3 babies a year. Eagles are five years old before they build their own nests and have babies of their own. They have more feathers on their heads than they do on their wings. The children have been quite interested in everything she ha taught us. She will be coming in again in the near future.
The first graders are becoming quite the reading machines. The fifth graders have continued to come and help out with giving labeled book tests, but I am also transitioning the first graders into doing their own tests. As the end of the year approaches and the there may be more and more times when it is not possible for the fifth graders to help out, so the independence of the first graders will be very helpful.
If you ever have any concerns or questions, please let me know. You can call me at school or shoot me an email and I will respond as quickly as possible. I would rather answer questions and concerns when they are small rather than let them snowball into a huge problem.
We are got our new spelling words today. The new words are in the Friday Folders. We will have our spelling test next Thursday, March 10th. The new words are:
1. cup
2. cups
3. frog
4. frogs
5. tree
6. trees
Challenge Words
7. gloves
8. birds
Please mark your calendars for Monday, March 21st. The annual spring music concert will be held at the High School at 7:00.
The first graders and I did some goal setting this week. One of our goals is a reading goal. If the students can read 1400 labeled books by the end of the year we will have Camp Read-a-Lot. I told them that Camp Read-a-Lot was a day where we did no work at all........but we did spend the day reading books. We will push our desks and chairs to the side of the room and bring in our sleeping bags and blankets and spend the day reading. We also talked about what we would need to do to attain our goal. Since setting this goal, the children have really been reading up a storm. Each day I show them how much closer they are to reaching this goal.........right now we are at 757 books read with 643 books left to go. The first graders read and tested on over 100 books just this week!!! They seemed VERY excited.
