Week of December 8th

I apologize for not updating the blog last week, I got out of my routine after our week off. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns you have if I do forget again in the future.

For this week and future weeks we will be changing our spelling test day. We do multiple assessments on Fridays and it can be a lot for the students. We like to use our assessments to help the students to see what they are doing well and what they need to work on. With so many assessments in one day it's been difficult to be able to look at assessments with the students. So, in an effort to cut down on assessments in the same day and to make them more meaningful for students, we will be moving spelling tests to Thursdays. Starting this week, for the rest of the school year, weekly spelling tests will be given on Thursday instead of Friday. I appreciate your help with preparing your child for the test a day earlier. Please let me know if you have any questions about this.

We will be having math homework 4.4 on Wednesday and 4.5 on Thursday. Both of these homework sheets are practice with measuring in inches. There is a paper ruler attached at the bottom that you can cut out to use. However if you do have a regular ruler at home this may be easier to use in order to complete the assignments. We have only been measuring to the nearest full and half inch. Do not worry about measuring more accurately than that. This is a skill that we are introducing for the first time in first grade this week, so your child might need some help reading the ruler.

Thank you for all that you do for your child. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Week of November 8th

I have not received responses from some of you about your conference time. I will be sending new notes home with those whom I still have not heard from. Please send these back to school tomorrow or as soon as possible so we can get our conference night schedule confirmed. Thank you.

Also, we have a field trip next Monday, November 15th from 9:00-2:00. We are still looking for volunteers to go with us. We need at least 2 more parents to go along or the museum may not let us come. If you are interested in going with us on Monday, please contact me as soon as possible.

Also, if you have not yet sent back the yellow slip to let us know whether your child will be having a sack lunch from school or will be bringing their lunch on Monday for the field trip, I will be sending a new one home and need this back tomorrow. If no note is returned I will assume that your child will be eating a school sack lunch.

We will have homework 3.12 on Wednesday.

As always, please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Week of November 1st

This week we will be having homework 3.9 on Tuesday, 3.10 on Wednesday, and 3.11 on Thursday. 3.11 is two pages and deals with the introduction of dimes. *Please note, if at any time the homework instructions ask you to send real money to school for students to practice with, please ignore it. I have fake money that we can use to practice with and then students aren't tempted to spend their math money at the school store.

We've moved our library check-out day to Mondays. Please make sure students have returned books by the end of the week so that they will be able to check out again every Monday.

Thank you and as always, please let me know if you have any questions.

Week of October 25th

Thank you all for the warm welcome back and to the students for a great week. I'm so happy that things went well while I was gone and it's wonderful to be back.

This week we will have homework 3.6 on Monday, 3.7 on Tuesday, and 3.8 on Wednesday.

We are going to start checking out books during our computer lab time on Tuesdays. Please make sure to return books to school with your child on Tuesdays so that they will be able to check out new books.

Be looking for a note about our Harvest Party in blue folders Tuesday night.

As always, please contact me with any questions or concerns. Thank you so much :)

Week of August 30th

This week we will not have any math homework.

I did have a few students bring back some math homework this afternoon. Those were old homework pages, we were using the back of them as scratch paper to write some sentences during reading. I am very sorry for the miscommunication, those are homework sheets that we will not be doing until the spring. So for math homework in the future, I will be letting you know which homework page students will need to do and which day to expect it to come home. Every Monday I'll update the blog or send home a note. This note will tell you which days to expect math homework and will also tell you the number that will be on the homework. The number is in the top right hand corner and we will probably start with 1.9 sometime next week.

We will be going to the library this Friday, but I'm not sure yet as to whether students will be checking out books yet. You may want to check backpacks on Friday to see if your child has brought home a library book.

As always, please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you so much :)

Some Clarification

I sent home some starfall reading and writing journals with students yesterday. We no longer use these workbooks at school, but since I had a lot of them leftover, I thought I would send them home for your use. They are for you to keep at home and use as you like. They are great practice for students with sight words and handwriting skills.

You do not need to send these books back to school.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have.

Welcome to First Grade

Welcome to our classroom blog! I'll be using this blog to communicate what goes on in our classroom throughout the school year. This is where I will post event information, homework assignment information, and general classroom announcements each week.

In maintaining safety for our students I ask that if you ever need to contact me about something you've read in the blog, please contact me at my school phone number or email address rather than leaving a message in the comments section.

I hope that you will find this blog to be a useful tool for classroom communication. I look forward to the upcoming school year!

As always, feel free to contact me at any time.