An Absolutely Amazing First Week of School!

IT HAS BEEN A GREAT WELCOME BACK TO SCHOOL WEEK!

We are all excited about being OWLs!  Outstanding, Working, Learning Students.

This week the students have been making their own snacks and enjoying the creativity and taste! Please check your child’s folder for a note about Snack Sign-Up.

Ask your child which OWL snack was their favorite?

On the second day of school one of my students ask me, “When are we going to have Daily 5?”  These students love Literacy!  

Our First Family Project “Owl” About Me Craftivity excited all students both when presenting or listening!

Would you like to be a Mystery Reader in our classroom?

A Mystery Reader would come and read one of their favorite children’s books to our class.  Times can be flexible!  Just let me know and I will see what we can fit into our Literacy Schedule!

Our first Reader’s Theater will be on September 18, 2015 at 8:30!

The students will be presenting “Mother Goose to the Rescue”!  Here is our cast:

Mother Goose	Emma and Kali
Humpty	Xander
King Cole	Tripp
Cow	Ben
Jack Horner	June
Willie Winkie	Carter
Tommy Tucker	Abe
Miss Muffet	Vivian
Rhymeland Rhymers	Kara, Mikenzie, Hailey, Presley, Trenton, Madelyn, Emmaline, Jonathan

PLEASE PRACTICE NIGHTLY WITH YOUR CHILD.  IT IS OKAY TO ECHO READ OR HELP THEM FIGURE OUT UNKNOWN WORDS USING OUR READING STRATEGIES :)

ASSIGNMENT NOTEBOOKS

Also when you are checking your child’s Assignment Notebook, please initial the Assignment Notebook.  That way I know you have seen any important messages. Thanks.

We are always ready to add our silly faces to make you smile and laugh especially at the end of the day!

First Day of School!

One of the reasons I love having a looping classroom is creating the relationships between home and school.  As the students came in today they greeted their previous classmates and welcomed a couple new faces with friendly smiles and engaged in conversation if they hadn't been gone all summer.

We began our day with a song (as we always do) and then we had ART Class.  Our ART teacher this year is Ms. Martiny.  The students were creative and followed directions while having a blast designing their new, colorful patterns.

After ART Class we went outside for Peaceful Playground Rotations.  In my rotation the students learned about Conflict Resolution Options.

We welcomed the cool air of our classroom after being outside for rotations along with the chance to make our own snack!  Today we made "Owl S'mores".  I changed the recipe a little bit and used:

• graham crackers
• marshmallows
• Hershey Kisses
• candy corn

 As we reflected on our Peaceful Playground Rotations I introduced a story to the students from author Nick Ward named Don't EAT the TEACHER! 

 We talked about the 3 ways to read a book:  Read the pictures. Read the words. Retell the story.

 

Posters created by Lilian Love

And then it was time for the children to pick books for their book bins!  Pure excitement and joy in the room! Looking forward to tomorrow :)

 

 

 

 

We Are Ready to Begin and Grow!

It is Back to School Time!

I hope to see all you tomorrow evening, August 27,  at Pelican for our Back to School Open House!  The Open House will be from 4:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. Enjoy your Back to School video to kick off our First Grade Year

It is Back to School Time 2015-2016!