Savanna – Math Whiz

Brianna – Cafeteria Champ

Ameri-Shaye – Assembly Champ

Emma – Music Champ and Cafeteria Champ

Alexis – Great Reader

Kenzie – Assembly Champ

Caleb – Great Friend and Respectful

Colton – Assembly Champ

Elijah – Respectful and shows Self-Control

Kaiden – Great Reader

Wow!  Look how many CHAMPS are in this classroom!  I am so proud of all of you!  Keep up the great work!  I can’t wait to see who else gets an award next week!

Our class will be teaching about RESPECT at our Champs Assembly this Friday! It will begin at 8:00 and end around 8:30. We would love for you to join us in the cafeteria to celebrate our Champs for the week!

Our 100th Day Celebration will be on Monday, January 30th!

We have an inference activity that your child can complete at home.  Please checking your child’s folder for this important and fun activity.

We will read 100 books as a class!

We will write 100 words as a class!

We will do 100 Brain Gym exercises as a class!

We will also skip count in many ways to 100!

It will be a great day!  Don’t forget your clues and items on our special 100th day!

We started learning about time today.  We drew pictures telling about what we do in the morning, afternoon, and evening.  Tomorrow we will work with clocks and learn how to tell time to the hour.  This is always such a fun math learning time for first graders.  They have a letter for you to read in their planner to discuss time together at home.

Ladybug Blog Spot!

What have you learned about Antarctica?

Next week we will begin an author study on Tacky books by Helen Lester.  Tacky is an odd bird, but he really is a great friend.

Please don’t forget to check their planner each night and listen to them read.  The consistent reading will help them progress in their great ability to enjoy books and read fluently.  I am so proud of each of them and their progress!  Keep it up!

Please remember we do not have school next Monday, January 16, 2012 in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. day.

We have been researching about penguins and today we began writing our non-fiction stories.  Next week we will combine the true facts we learned about our penguins and the story elements that we have learned in fiction books to write a new story!

Ladybug Blog Spot!

1.  Go to facts4me.com

2. Choose a place to research.

3.  Tell me two facts about this place.

Please look at the papers in your child’s folder.

There are graded papers and dental page to complete if your are interested!

The students are doing a great job with research and commenting about their learning on the blog.

We are now researching about a penguin with a partner and will then write a non-fiction story about that penguin.

We will have our chapter test on subtraction Friday.

We will have our spelling test tomorrow.

Don’t forget that next Monday will be a school holiday to honor Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ladybug Blog Spot!

1.  Facts4me.com

2.  Look up any animal.

3.  Tell me what you researched and a two facts that you learned.

We will have a mid-chapter review tomorrow to see how well the students are understanding subtraction and we will also review reading a graph, problem solving, and addition.

I think the kids are really liking the research part of the blog.  I have seen many new comments being made about the facts they are reading about when they research penguins.  Way to go kiddo’s!  Keep up the hard work!

Ladybug Blog Spot!

Fun Facts with Research!

1.  Go to facts4me.com

2.  Click on penguins.

3.  Click on Emperor Penguin.

4.  Tell me one fact that you learned about this penguin.

We have been discussing setting goals.  We have read Martin Luther King, Jr’s book about what dream and goal he had as a little boy and talked about things we may want to do better.  Ask your child what their goal was and the steps they need to take to achieve that goal.

Ladybug Blog Spot!

Fun Facts with Research!

1.  Go to facts4me.com

2.  Click on penguins.

3.  Click on Emperor Penguin.

4.  Tell me one fact that you learned about this penguin.