Hello, all!
It was another busy week here in first grade-completing assessments, learning routines, and adjusting to our schedule!  Thank you for helping us at home as we get used to it all!

Congratulations to Elliott and Jack-they are taking Darla and Kola home this week! :) Great job following directions and helping your friends do their best work!

We completed Leader Books for Darius, Damon, Aubrey, and Jordan!  We enjoy this fun activity to help us get acquainted with each other.

Thank you for sending back the forms-I know there are a lot of them (and, I have to process all of them for each child before sending them to the office, so I know just how many there are :) ), and I appreciate your sending them all back together.

I can tell that several children did a lot of practicing this summer with sight words/reading and working with numbers-great work!

Today we got to use the Smartboard to do a couple of math activities that had us comparing numbers, putting them in order, and finding numbers from 1-120 on a number grid.  We also learned the expectations for Read to Self and Read to Someone times.  Our first visit to the Library was today as well-thank you in advance for returning your library books in the special library bags no later than Thursday so that the librarians can have time to check them back in before our next library session.

We also had fun with our first Sharing Day!  Our next one will be on Friday, October 12, as there is a Teacher Workshop Day on Friday the 5th.

Be sure to check the Upcoming Events calendar in the menu on the right-hand side of the blog!

Have a great weekend!  The play I'm in opened this week, and I am hoping to get our kayaks in the water at least once more before it gets too chilly-I hope you have some fun plans too!

Becca

Happy First Weekend of the School Year!

We have had a very busy first week!  Thank you for the supplies, communication, and everything you do to help your child come to school ready for the day! :)

Eagle News envelopes are in the kids' backpacks.  A folder with all of those wonderful forms is included :)...thank you in advance for filling them out and returning them on Tuesday!

There are also a couple of book order flyers and a sheet explaining how book orders work-this first book order is due on September 10.

Two friends are taking home our classroom bears today-Darla and Kola.  Thank you to Soren and Brielle for working so hard and making good choices this week!  I wonder who will earn the privilege of taking the bears home next weekend? :)

As soon as I have all of the forms back, we'll post photos and other images of our week here on the blog! 😄

Have a terrific long weekend!  I'll see all my friends on Tuesday!

Becca

Welcome to our classroom blog!  This will be the place to check each week for photos, information, updates, and celebrations about our work in first grade!  Thanks for checking it each week! :)