It was such an amazing school year! It always goes too fast! Thank you for all of your help with their learning! Thank you for reading with them every night and do extra math things at home! It has helped them be successful in 1st grade!

I will have most of the students in my class next year and I am really looking forward to having this group of kids again! As I told them all year, they are the best students ever!

They had a lot of fun at the park! It was a beautiful day for it! They also got to be the teachers this week. They taught me magic tricks and some jokes and had me doing some pretty difficult math problems! We finished our memory books and played some math games!

They each got a deck of cards to practice some math over the summer!

Kali's dad brought Tara the dog to show the class!

Thank you again for a great year!!!

May 24th- Highland park in the afternoon

May 25th- Swing choir and band perform

May 26th- Last day- please send a packed lunch

Instead of guided reading books for the reading log, they can read you the weekly readers they have brought home or books they have at their house!

This week:

We wrote and found pictures for our 1st grade memory books. We learned some multiplication strategies and reviewed ways to add and subtract double digit numbers. We wrote a story in a speech bubble and played a review game on Kahoot. We had weekly reader centers, where we read different weekly readers and answered question with a group!




We also learned how to play spiral addition!

Next week:

We will add the finishing touches to our memory books and read books by our favorite authors. We will also do some problem solving activities.

May 24th- We will be going to Highland park for our afternoon recess.

May 26th- Last day of school and it is an early out.

On the last day, please send a lunch with a drink. No school lunch is provided that day!
Thank you!

This week:

They did a great job during testing. It is a long test, but they persevered through it! We are read stories by James Marshall. He wrote about characters like Miss Nelson and Viola Swamp. Some students brought those books home to read to you! In math, we are reviewing adding 10s to any number. They started to review some first grade skills by making their own board game. They will finish writing the instructions this week.

They loved tug of war!!

Please continue to read daily. During this week because of testing they did not bring a book home from guided reading, but they can always read a library book too!

Next week:

We will test 12 of the sight words this week.

We will continue to make our board games. Some of them are about phonics skills and some are about math skills.  We will be reading reader's theaters this week. In writing, we will be working on a memory book. We will start some basic multiplication skills in math.

Upcoming Events:

We will be doing our end of the year testing next week on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday! Please remember to send snack those days and have them get enough rest! I am excited to see how much they have grown this year!

On Wednesday May 11th, we will have a field day in the afternoon. Please have them wear clothing according to the weather and tennis shoes. They will be put into groups and complete different track and field activities.

On Tuesday May 24th,  all of Jefferson's first graders will be having recess at Highland Park that afternoon.

On May 25th, we will watch the middle school band and chorus perform.

May 26th is the last day of school and it is an early out.

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This week:

We had an awesome time at the farm!

We read fiction and nonfiction stories about farms and found the main idea and details. We wrote poems about animals on the farm. They are very good poets!! We also reviewed maps and map keys and made a map of a farm. In math, we reviewed shapes by making big shapes out of small shapes and using shapes to add.

Next week:
We will be reviewing all sight words for the next few weeks!

We will be testing! We will also be making games as a group to review skills for testing. Some students will make phonics games and some will make math games.  In writing, we are focusing on having capital letters and periods in the correct spots in our stories.

Thank you Brandon and Kendra for sharing your timeline with us the last 2 weeks!

May 3rd - Farm trip  (Please send them to school in old shoes and put regular shoes in their book bag for the afternoon)  Thank you!

May 9th -12th- We will be doing our end of the year testing.

May 26th- Last day of school - early out

This week:

We learned more about plants and how each part helps the plant. We made a poster about plants. During reading, we listened to nonfiction stories about plants and looked at the pictures to help us find information. In math, we practiced adding ten to any number and reviewed true and false equations. We also used place value to help us add and subtract. In writing, we focused on making sure we have capital letters and periods.

Next week:

Sight words: six  seven eight  nine ten

We will be reviewing shapes and adding 3 numbers. During reading we will find the main idea and details.  During writing, we will write farm poems. They will also be making a map of a farm.

Hailey- Thank you for sharing your timeline with us!

April 27th - Presidential mile run at the track - note will come home


This week:

They did an amazing job at their program!!!

We learned about animals and their offspring. We looked for similarities in adult animals and baby animals. They created an animal and drew its offspring.

The zoo came and showed us some neat animals!

We read fictional stories with animals and compared the characters to each other. In math, we learned different ways to add double digit numbers. In writing, they wrote about how to take care of an animal.



Next week:

Sight words: zero one two three four five 

We will be learning about plants and how important they are to us and animals. We will look for text features in nonfiction books that we read. We will write about spring. In math, we will focus on adding ten to any number.

April 21st- Music program at 6:30p.m.

April 22nd-Early out

May 3rd- Morning trip to the farm

This week:

We reviewed goods and services and the importance of saving money and spending it wisely. We read stories about kids that did not always use good judgement when it came to spending money. We also played a kids version of Life. They earned money and experienced losing it or spending it on necessities.

In math, we focused on adding tens to a any number. For example 18+10= 28. We used the hundred chart to help us with this task.

The wrote stories about what kind of business they would have to sell goods or services.

Next week:

Sight words:  know most thing very love

We will be learning about animals and their offspring. We will review adaptations and how animals and plants depend on each other to survive.

The zoo will be bringing animals on April 22nd!

In math, we will continue to work on adding tens to numbers.