This is a gentle reminder that tomorrow, Wednesday, April 27 will be a Delayed Start day. School will begin at 10:14am. Busses will run on their normal routes 90 minutes later than a typical school day. School will end at our normal 3:50pm time.
Also, the Harlan Art Fest and Pasta Palooza dinner will be held tomorrow after school.
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Monday, April 25, 2016
Spelling Challenge Words for the Week of 4/25 - 4/29
We will be practicing the following words for this week's Spelling Challenge:
just
ride
some
help
as
We will also be working on words in the -an family. These may include:
man
can
than
ran
plan
fan
scan
pan
Thank you for the continued support from home as we move towards more conventional spelling of high frequency words. If you have any questions, please let me know.
Sunday, April 24, 2016
Schedule for the Week of 4/25 - 4/29
Monday (C) - PE & Music
Tuesday (D) - Art
Wednesday (A) - Music
Thursday (B) - Media Center
Friday (C) - PE & Music
Please remember to bring gym shoes on days we have PE and return library books on days we visit the media center.
Wednesday, April 27
Delayed Start Day
School begins at 10:19am
Harlan Art Fest
6:00 - 7:30pm
Thursday, April 28
Husky Packs
Caring for the environment
Friday, April 29
Science-poolza
Thursday, April 21, 2016
Spelling Challenge
This is a gentle reminder that our Spelling Challenge will be tomorrow, Friday, April 22. The list of words for this week are:
ate
any
find
out
was
There will also be 5 suprise words from the -ut family. Examples include nut, rut, cut, but, shut, gut and hut.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Friday, April 15, 2016
Bulletin Board Volunteers
Our class is currently looking for a volunteer or two to help change our bulletin board in the hallway. The volunteers would be taking down our March bulletin board and replacing it with our April bulletin board materials. If you are interested and available in doing this next Monday or Tuesday, please let me know.
Thank you in advance!
Schedule for the Week of 4/18 - 4/22
Monday (B) - Media Center
Tuesday (C) - PE & Music
Wednesday (D) - Art
Thursday (A) - Music
Friday (B) - Media Center
Please remember to bring gym shoes on days we have PE and return library books on days we visit the media center.
Monday, April 11, 2016
Schedule for the Week of 4/11 - 4/15
Monday (A) - Music
Tuesday (B) - Media Center
Wednesday (C) - PE & Music
Thursday (D) - Art
Friday (A) - Music
Please remember to bring gym shoes on days we have PE and return library books on days we visit the media center.
Tuesday (B) - Media Center
Wednesday (C) - PE & Music
Thursday (D) - Art
Friday (A) - Music
Please remember to bring gym shoes on days we have PE and return library books on days we visit the media center.
New Spelling Challenge
Hello First Grade Families!
The first grade teachers are excited to introduce another area of focus to our day this spring! After studying our most recent writing samples, we feel that we would like to increase the amount of conventional (i.e. correct!) spelling our students do within their daily work. While our writing work often focuses on “spelling the best we can and moving on” as an attempt to avoid disrupting the writing process, we’d like to encourage our young writers to begin to focus a little more on spelling words correctly as we prepare for second grade.
Each week from now until June, we will have a “spelling list” comprised of 5 word wall words and one word family. Each Friday, students will participate in a “Spelling Challenge” in which they will attempt to spell the five word wall words correctly, as well as correctly spell 5 surprise words from the given word family. For example, if the family of the week is “-ot,” children might be asked to spell “dot, spot, got, shot and hot” on their spelling challenge.
We will be practicing our words and word families at school in a variety of ways and also encourage your child to practice the words at home. We are attaching a packet full of creative ways to practice the words; we hope your child can enjoy this learning process!
Each week, the words and word family will be outlined in the newsletter. Please let us know if you have any questions! We are confident that this extra emphasis on conventional spelling will help our young ones blossom as writers!
Thanks for your continued support!
The First Grade Teaching Team
The first grade teachers are excited to introduce another area of focus to our day this spring! After studying our most recent writing samples, we feel that we would like to increase the amount of conventional (i.e. correct!) spelling our students do within their daily work. While our writing work often focuses on “spelling the best we can and moving on” as an attempt to avoid disrupting the writing process, we’d like to encourage our young writers to begin to focus a little more on spelling words correctly as we prepare for second grade.
Each week from now until June, we will have a “spelling list” comprised of 5 word wall words and one word family. Each Friday, students will participate in a “Spelling Challenge” in which they will attempt to spell the five word wall words correctly, as well as correctly spell 5 surprise words from the given word family. For example, if the family of the week is “-ot,” children might be asked to spell “dot, spot, got, shot and hot” on their spelling challenge.
We will be practicing our words and word families at school in a variety of ways and also encourage your child to practice the words at home. We are attaching a packet full of creative ways to practice the words; we hope your child can enjoy this learning process!
Each week, the words and word family will be outlined in the newsletter. Please let us know if you have any questions! We are confident that this extra emphasis on conventional spelling will help our young ones blossom as writers!
Thanks for your continued support!
The First Grade Teaching Team
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Blast from the Past!
Here some of us are rockin' our 80's gear! Since I was in first grade in the mid 80's, these were right up my alley!
Way cool! Awesome! Totally rad!
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