Week of Sep. 12th

Language Arts: we will work on the short u sound and high frequency words. The Spelling list this week will consist of 15 words: 10 words that follow the rule for the week and 5 HFWs. We will have the Spelling test on Friday morning.

Math: we will work on patterns

Science: we will work on recording and observing traits of different objects

PYP: We are wrapping up the Who We Are planner.  We will continue reviewing the PYP profile and attitudes and the Choose-Act-Reflect cycle.

Working on Kindness Quilt squares

Week of September 5th

Wow, we made it through the first week with homework and capped it off with a Spelling Test!

Please make sure your child returns the homework on Fridays, most everyone did this first week = Great Job!

Language Arts: we will work on short e sound and high frequency words.  The Spelling list, from now on, will consist of 15 words: 10 words that follow the rule for the week and 5 HFWs.  We will have regular Spelling tests on Friday mornings.

Math: we will work on comparing and ordering numbers

Social Studies: we will focus on leaders and rules.

PYP: We will continue working on Who We Are and reviewing the PYP profile and attitudes.

Jeffrey and Toby model to the class how to work at the Library Workstation.

 The kids FINALLY got to go on the Spider!!!!  For safety reasons, first grade gets to go on the Spider on days that the class' ancillary is Spanish.

We went on a Listening Walk and tracked the different sounds we heard, many which we don't notice when we walk down the hallways making noises ourselves!

"I heard Ms. Fromen's flip-flops making noise!"

 Sharing Journal!  It's amazing how much more the kids are writing in just one week :)

Welcome to our first week in First Grade!

We had a great first week!  The activities were planned so that we can get to know each other and become a class community.  The children shared their summer activities, made a 'house,' drew a portrait of their family, and drew self-portraits.  Below are some pictures of the children at work :)

This week: Homework will be sent home on Monday, in the yellow folder, and is due back on Friday.  It will include Spelling and Math practice, along with a reading component.  This week the Spelling homework will consist of high frequency words review and numbers to 12 will be the focus of Math.  There will be a spelling test on Friday morning.

We continue working on the Who We Are planner and reviewing the PYP profile and attitudes.  In Science we will focus on the senses.

The children worked on making patterns.

My house: the children made rooms for their houses in which they included things about themselves.

We had Recess indoors on Thursday due to rain.  Some of the activities were puzzles, free drawing, and PBS kids

Our Calendar Leader and Calendar Helper leading the class in the daily routine

Working on Self-portraits, follow-up to "Happy to be Me!"

Week of May 9th

NO HOMEWORK THIS WEEK DUE TO STANFORD TESTING!!!!

Make sure your child gets plenty of sleep, a good breakfast (at home or at school), and gets to school timely :)

Since the testing will take up the majority of the morning we will rotate through workstations in the afternoon and also work on the planner.  The kids brought in great projects from empty water bottles.  Please make sure your child submits one, if they didn't bring one on Friday.

Thank you for attending the Student Led Conferences!

Week of April 25th

Our daily schedule this week will be a little off due to the different testing taking place, mainly TAKS. As a result, our ancillary time will be in the morning on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

Math: we will work on making equal parts, equal parts of a whole and parts of sets (fractions); we will continue to work on Fact Families

Language Arts: this week we will work on Long i sound made with -ie and -igh, as in pie and high. The genre for this week is Expository Text which tells about real people, places, and events.

In both Math and Language Arts we will continue to practice test-taking strategies.

Planner: we continue learning about natural resources, the environment, our responsibilitiy as inhabitants of the Earth, and how our actions today impact the environment

After reading The Lorax, the children drafted a letter to the Once-ler to express their thoughts about his actions (Sloppy Copy) ...beginning the Writing Cycle ...

After completing their draft, they exchanged letters and had a partner edit ...completed Final Copies have been posted outside our classroom, take a look!

 How much more money do you need to be able to purchase the eraser?

Making Words: we have been busy making words from the letters in one word.  In the example below, thunder is the word that a student wrote in his journal and then found two other words, then the class helped out with the others ...