ROCKin' around this winter scene

Only a few days left until Winter Break!

Upcoming events this week:

12/19-Wednesday: Wear your Pajamas! 

12/20-Thursday: Winter Parties will be at 2p.m. in your student's room.

12/21-Friday: Early Release. Students will be released at 12:00 p.m.

We Wanna ROCK!

This week our students have been geologists! We are discovering rocks around us and why they are important. This group of students really did enjoy thinking outside of the box and making predictions about what we use these rocks for, where they may be from and what they might be made of.

Such great brain power they have!

like 

spike

ride

hide

bike

mine

make

came

how

there

 We all hope everyone has a safe and wonderful winter break! Classes resume on 

January 8th, 2013

It's beginning to look a lot like WINTER!

BRRRR!

We started off our week with a nice surprise! We hope with these dropping temperatures that everyone remembers to send your students with heavy coats.

We also hope that you remember to LABEL these coats, hats, mittens and other outer wear! :)

We are very proud of all your generous donations! Thanks again!Our school successfully donated OVER 2,000 items for our food drive!!Each first grade class passed their goals! WAY TO GO!!

You might see something like this coming home....

Our classes have been exploring the world around us. After talking about maps we are exploring a little deeper. Our classes are looking closely at those features that make up our maps and the world around us!

take

came

game

gate

late

shop

with

why

school

Keep practicing and studying these words for our test on Friday!

Upcoming dates:

12/19: Wednesday is Pajama Day! Celebrate reaching our school goal in donations.

12/21: Friday is Early Release! The students will be released at 12:00p.m.

Have a wonderful week!

Together We "Can"

We are continuing our food drive this week and it will end on Friday 11/7/12

This week is our review week of what we have been working on in Unit 2:

There are 30 words to review. On Friday only 10 will be chosen for our test.

hop     leg       spill     run      fish

top      beg      spin     fun      shop

log       men    grab    nut      ship

hog      hen     grass   cut       with 

hot      let        drop    bug     thin 

 lot        get       drip     rug      thank

For this week our homework will be to write 5 sentences with at least 2 words from the list above in each. 

Ex.  The men can cut the grass. 

Remember:

Label Coats

Keep reading each night

Turn in homework by Thursday

Thank you for all that you do!

Welcome Back

Welcome Back!

We had a fun short week last Monday & Tuesday.
Here is a sneak peek of what our classes were working on:

Last week the school had also started a can food drive!

Our goal is to raise 1200 cans for the entire school. Any non perishable food item is welcome!

Thanks for helping our students help others in need! 

Today we sent home information about the 6 Flags read to succeed.The paper attached should explain any questions you may have. This is not due until February. If there are any questions left unanswered this FAQ site may help.

* Your child's reading folder time may be recorded for this log*

Here are our weekly words:

fish

shop

ship

with

thin

thank

run

bug

all

want

Please remember to be reading your books each night and study for the spelling test Friday!

You can always check out our PISD class page also! 

                                             

Veteran's Day

 

HAPPY VETERAN’S DAY! 

We hope everyone took the time to thank those who served in our military today.
We had a beautiful assembly today in honor of those who have served and are still serving today. 
Thank you to those that joined in our celebration by either helping, reading, singing or being in attendance to be honored. We were very pleased to spend such a special day with you all.

This week we are focusing on short u with some review words.
Here is this week’s spelling list

rug
fun
cut
nut
bug
run
could
one
grass
spin

These are other words we will be practicing this week: visual vocabulary cards

Don’t forget:

Your child’s reading folder should only return on the day listed at the bottom of their folder.
Log your reading at least 3 times per book.

We have been talking about diversity in our Integrated Curriculum.
We wrapped up this part of the unit with classifying different types of food to compare how things can be the same yet different. Our classes worked on this diagram together:

These upcoming weeks we will be looking at maps. We will be talking about the compass rose while learning how to locate, direct, and navigate directions on a map.

Just a quick reminder:
We have noticed a collection of coats that get left behind on a daily basis, please make sure to put your child’s initials or name on their clothing so we can find their homes! 

I will try to update every Monday with the new spelling words and a weekly recap. I will try my best to have another update towards the end of the week so check back weekly.

Thank you for all that you do!

We are thankful

We are thankful for...

This week our classes have been focusing what we are all thankful for.

Below is a little sneak peak of a friend that might be making their way home to you.

These fine feathered friends were a fun way for everyone to stop and think of what we should all be thankful for 

Giving thanks to....

On Monday, November 12th Saigling will be celebrating those veterans who have served in our military.

The assembly is at 1:30 p.m. in the cafeteria.

This list will be tested Friday! Good luck! 

spill
spin
grab
grass
drop
drip
men
let
out
many

Thursday night is. . . 

Come and stop by the 1st grade hall to have a little fun! Our exciting insects will be making their move around 6:30 p.m. Hope to see you there!

**Don't forget the book fair will be open also!** 

Please don't forget:

• Each student has their weekly reading folder. This should be read each night and returned on the day assigned (1 week later). (ex. your child brings home their books Wednesday night, it will return the following Wednesday) 

Here are also some websites that may be fun to do at home to practice on some of the skills that we have been working on this past few weeks:

• This is fun way to watch the base blocks explode into pieces across the place values!
• This is a fun way to free play with pattern blocks

• This is a new concept we are working with: geoboard practice.

Thank you for all that you do!