I am so sorry! I forgot to give you the robust vocabulary words for this week to use with Spelling City. They are: presented, horrible, invigorated, sweltering, aid, persistent.......Have a great week!

Happy Monday! I have a few reminders today! I look forward to meeting with all of you this week to go over individual students progress and goals for this year. I encourage you to attend the conference Oct. 7th from 8:20-9:00a.m. in the student activity center. Mrs. McKenzie and Mrs. Cameron will be discussing the topic Just Right Books for your young readers. Also there is a parent survey that will be on line beginning Oct. 1st. Please complete it. Have a great week.

Welcome to our week of peace. We will be celebrating and reflecting peaceful ideas all week. We will have a special gathering tomorrow morning, to honor the International Day of Peace.
A few reminders: Please remember to pack a daily snack for your child. I have numerous children that do not bring snack on the days they are buying lunch.
Our robust vocabulary words to use with the Spelling City link are: politely, considerate, routine, ambled, unexpected, pouted. Our weekly homework calendar is also posted on the left side of the blog. Have a great week and check the schedule for your confirmed conference time. Let me know if you have any conflict.



Conferences Sept. 30th

9:00a.m. Elwyn
9:30a.m. Healy
10:00a.m. Dolan
10:30a.m. Waldmann
11:00 Hardgrove
11:30 LUNCH
12:00 Leary
12:30 Dolson
1:00 Canizares
1:30 Forney
2:00 Palmer
2:30 Peters


Sept. 28th

10:45 McElroy
2:45 Densa

Oct. 1st

7:20 Palcan
8:30 Kropf
10:00 Spencer
2:45 McCarthy

Welcome back to school today! I hope you had a great weekend. I did! How great was football Sunday with a Buccaneer win? I would like to inform you that a very special Zoologist is visiting first grade tomorrow, from Miami. We are very lucky, to have her. She fit us into her busy schedule. She will be bringing animals to share with the children. I do not know if they will be able to touch them. No worries, they will hand sanitize, if they do touch them, and I will keep all children with me who would rather not be near them. Please check ebytes for photos of our experience. A special thank-you to Michelle Clopet (Lauren Lawson's mom) for arranging this privilege for first grade. Picture Day this week is on Tuesday. If you have not sent in your picture order please do so tomorrow. I will be sending in our first book order this weekend. Friday will be the last day to order. I only need one check for the total amount. They have changed their policy and all of the different clubs are now owned by one company. He are last week's robust vocabulary words: especially,memorize, sensed, capacity, haul, proud. These robust vocabulary words are introduced and discussed with the students each week. They are not expected to spell them, but knowing what they mean and even being able to read them would be enriching. I have linked to the site, to further enhance their knowledge of these words. I will be posting new words each week. We have begun our human body unit and will be studying about skeletons this week.

Happy Tuesday! I hope everyone had a wonderful Labor Day weekend!
I went to New York and had a great time with my daughter!
I sent home the Checking Progress Math Assessment last Thursday. In math, they are working on counting and making Tally Marks over 20, beginning with two digit numbers and counting by 2's and learning how to play the Everyday Math computer games. We will be using the computer math games on Fridays.
The Handwriting Without Tears program has been really smooth. We are, as a class setting goals. We want our handwriting legible, spaced evenly with capitalization, and punctuation used correctly. We have also discussed the importance of word order in our writing, (exp: the cat fast ran).
Their papers are being completed with a regular pencil, however, you will see colored pencil marks.
What they do independently is completed with a regular pencil. What they change, or correct is done with a colored pencil. Look for their Math Journals sent home this week to be used with Thursday nights homework. Have a great week......we will!