Renzulli Learning and Explorations

Our class has now been registered to use Renzulli.  Renzulli is a system that has selected hundreds of enrichment activities and other resources specifically geared to your child's interests. In order to find activities that meet your child's interests, you will need to update your child's profile by logging in through the student tab at: http://www.renzullilearning.com/ .  After you sign in, click on "Profile" and help your child answer a series of questions.  Once all the questions have been answered your child will be able to access activities geared to his/her interests!  Check your email for your child's username and password.

Inside, outside, and how many in all ...

Explorations: the children explored different mathematics materials in rotations.

Making geometric figures on Geoboards

Comparing numbers while playing Top-It

This week's happenings

Happy Eid al Fitr!  Thank you to Lulu, Yusuf, Taha, and Rodayna's families for sharing their celebration with the class and bringing goodies for everyone.  In the haste of dismissal I forgot to thank all the families that collaborated in the effort, my apologies.
Practicing capitalization, punctuation, and spelling with Daily Fix-It

How many times did you roll a 6, a 5,...?  Learning about Outcomes by rolling a die

The Spider and the Bunny!

It was finally our class' turn to go on The Spider!  The kids have been anxiously waiting for Spanish ancillary and we got rained in yesterday :(  They definitely made the most of it today and spent as much time as possible on it.

Let's play Top-It!

Playing Bunny Hop!

Dismissal procedure

Dear Parents:
In order to ensure a safe and orderly dismissal and so that we can account for every child, we respectfully ask all children in grades 1 through 5 be picked up from the cafeteria only. Kindergarten parents may pick up at the classroom at 2:45. If you arrive at school before 2:45, you must get a visitors’ badge from the front office and wait for your children in the cafeteria, front rotunda, or outside unless you are going to Kindergarten at 2:45.
This will ensure that teachers know the whereabouts of all children at all times. Thank you for helping us keep your children safe.

John Baker
Principal
Mark Twain Elementary

Welcome!

Welcome to first grade!!! We have one week of first grade under our belts, it's gone by so fast. We have been extremely busy learning about each other, learning new rules and procedures, learning about numbers and graphs, writing in journals, etc. It has been quite exciting!

Please feel free to email me at dnathan1@houstonisd.org with any questions.

Below is a small sample of a few things we did this past week.