Spelling City



Are you looking for a fun way to help your child learn to spell words at his/her level?  If so, check out Spelling City.  The kids have been working in Spelling City for quite some time at school now.  It is an awesome website that lets me create spelling lists and group students.  This way, students are working on learning words that are at his/her level.  The girls and boys really seem to enjoy working with this program.  If you would like your child to use Spelling City at home and they do not remember their log in information, shoot me an email or send a note in their assignment notebook.

Writing Letters

We are working hard on writing letters.  Students are writing letters and then we are editing and revising them together.  The students are then making a final copy to deliver to someone in our school.  When they finish their first letter, they get to choose anyone they want to write a letter to.  Most of them are choosing Mom and Dad.  :)  In a few weeks we will be mailing letters to family members.  Please watch for a letter to come home for you to fill out addresses for us!  We are very excited about learning to write letters and we can't wait to get to mail them.

 

 

We are in the middle of another Success Maker contest!  The kids are working so hard, and really enjoy the added challenge of out scoring the other first grade classes. 

Fundations: Unit 7

Extra Words and Sentences to practice for unit 7 in Fundations:

Week 1:
bang, ring, sang, long, song, lung, king, wing, hang, sing, fang, hung, thing, rang, sung, gong

Sentences:
Try to run up that long hill.
Kim will sing at the shop.
Why did Bob hang this up?


Week 2:
think, junk, rink, sink, thank, tank, chunk, bank, dunk, link, bunk, Hank, sunk, wink

Sentences:
Thank Dad for the gum.
Put the cash in the bank.
Ed sank two shots to win.
Put the junk here.

Week 3:
banks, rings, things, honks, songs, lungs, wings, hangs, kings, thinks, winks, thanks, fangs, rinks, sinks, sings, tanks, chunks

Sentences:
The kids are at the rink, too.
Bob has very bad lungs.
The wings on the bug are pink.
The kings had very bad luck.

Just A Few Reminders...

*Please remember to sign and return the sheet that came with your child's report card.  You may keep the report card at home for your record.

*Friday is an early dismissal day.  Students are dismissed at 11:05.  There will be no lunch served that day.

*No school Monday, January 20th!

*Wednesday will be our Carrie Lynn Presentation.  I have everyone's permission slip returned.  Thank you for getting them back to me.

*Book orders are due on 1-21-14.  If you would like to order online go to: https://clubs2.scholastic.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/LogonForm 

Our class code is GNTTC

Every student that places an order in January will receive a free bracelet.

*February 7th first graders will be singing the National Anthem at a basketball game.  Please watch for more information to come home soon.

*Our Valentine's Day Party will be on Friday, February 14th.  More information will be coming home in the next couple weeks.

Happy New Year!

We have been having too much fun since coming back from break!  We talked about making goals for the year 2014.  I thought the kids did a good job coming up with things they wanted to accomplish.  Some of them are very ambitious!

 

In math we started to talk about place value.  Today we played a dice game to practice!



Assembly Fun!

Today we celebrated coming back from our LONG winter break with an assembly to honor good behavior at our school.  We had a Minute to Win It assembly where kids and teachers were the contestants.  Each child whose name was called to play a game will come home with a certificate.  Some kids also received a ruler for getting their name called, but they did not get to play a game.  The kids had so much fun.  Unfortunately, I did not get to play any of the games, because I was busy calling names and setting up games for the kids to play.

Mrs. Wanke had to inch worm her way through the cones as fast as she could!

Mrs. Log was very excited when she won Face the Cookie!

Working hard to stack those cups as high as he could!

 



Mrs. Brockway was a participant in block head!  She had to stack the blocks as high as she could on her head!

We had so much fun!  I am so happy to be back.  I missed these kids like crazy.  I can't believe how many of them lost teeth over break.  They all look so different!

 

We are SOOOO excited to be back together!

 

Brrrr....It is COLD!

I hope everyone is staying nice and warm on these frigid days!  We will extend the due date of the homework to Thursday and begin presentations on Friday due to not having school.  Just a reminder, Wednesday is an early dismissal day.  Students are released at 1:35.

 

Fundations

We will begin a new unit in fundations on Wednesday.  This week, and most of next week, we will be focusing on words that have the glued sounds ang, ing, ong, and ung.   Think fang, ring, song, lung.  There will be no fundations homework this week, we will resume fundations homework next week.  Our word wall words this week will be put, some, and come.

 

I can't wait to see my students!  I miss them like crazy!

 

Stay Warm!