100th Day!

Friday, February 8, 2013 we celebrated the 100th day of first grade! Students were met when they arrived with a festive entry into the classroom, 100th day pencil, sticker, crown and glasses to accompany their white shirt with 100 things on it! Students also enjoyed making their 100 day snack by counting out 10 groups of 10 different snack items to make 100th day "trail mix." Students also had their picture made with "100th day in first grade" picture frame....those pictures will appear in a special end of the year gift for each student :)

 

 

 

Just a reminder....Students need to continue reading the books in their book bags (these books are on their level and specific to your student). Please ask follow up questions when they are done reading to check for comprehension and you can have your child read to you on a timer to check for fluency (how fluid your child is reading the story...our goal by the end of first grade is 60 words per minute). Also, your student can get on spellingcity.com ("MHay1" is the username) to practice word wall words and word family words.

 



Tuesday, February 12th is Spaghetti dinner and Silent Auction before the PTA meeting at 7pm in the cafeteria. Fourth grade will perform once the PTA meeting is over.

Valentine's Day Party is this Thursday February 14th at 2:45pm in the classroom. Please send your child's valentines for each student in the class on Thursday. Thank you!

New Year's and Snowmen

We wrote about our New Year Resolutions and goals for 2013.

We also read Snowman books, wrote about Snowmen, discussed nouns, and adjectives.

Please continue to bring in your coins, spare change, and dollars for "Pasta for Pennies" that benefits the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

Polar Express Day, Sing Along and Winter Party

December 17th was Polar Express Day. We enjoyed our "train ride" to the North Pole in our pajamas (walking like a train making choo choo sound to the library) and heard the story, Polar Express read. Then we traveled to the cafeteria for some delicious cookies and hot chocolate (see picture below). **Your child should have come home with our Polar Express pictures (in our pajamas in front of the Christmas tree in the cafeteria) in a frame from me for Christmas.

 December 18th we enjoyed sing along with the entire school in the cafeteria. We sang lots of wonderful Christmas songs. First grade was responsible for singing "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" so that is why we are wearing antlers and red noses. It was very FUN!




Later that afternoon we had our Winter Party full of wonderful food, fun and Christmas music.

I look forward to seeing your child again on Wednesday, January 2nd. Happy New Year!

Reindeer and Holiday Cards

We have been busy working the past few weeks from Thanksgiving...I think it was all of the delicious food! :) Last week we researched and learned about reindeer or caribou as they are called. We have some reindeer writing displayed in the hallway.

We also have received some holiday cards from around the world. Cards have been received from Kansas, Alabama, California, North Carolina, Idaho and Florida!!! We have plotted them on our map and talked about their location and compared it to where Texas is on the map. It has been fun to check and see if we've received any mail in our mailbox. Check out the pictures below.

 

This week in math we started talking about coins. We are identifying the coins and their value. So, if you want to work on practice at home with coins that would be GREAT!

Upcoming Events
*Tomorrow we have an afternoon pride rally (2PM) and it is college shirt, hat, or sock day!
*Saturday is pancakes with Santa at Applebees!
*Monday is polar express day (wear pajamas and slippers but please send tennis shoes for recess).
*Tuesday is our winter party at 2:45 in the classroom.
* Dec. 19th-Jan. 1st is Winter Break-- please be on the lookout for an enrichment packet coming home with your child for the two week break. I encourage your child to work on the packet and READ over the break to reinforce skills learned at school. I wish you and your family a very MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Check back next week for Polar Express Day and Winter Party Pictures!

Holiday Card Project

I hope you and your family had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I look forward to seeing your child bright and early tomorrow morning!

Our class has the opportunity to take part in a holiday card project that is taking place all over the world. Students will create cards and send them out to other classrooms across the world. We will also be receiving cards in the mail from around the world and they will be displayed in the hallway. We will also map the locations from which the cards are sent from. This year the theme is "snow globes." So our holiday cards will reflect snow globes, Texas and Florence Hill Bronco Pride. Please check back frequently to see the holiday cards we've received.  For full project details check out: http://www.projectsbyjen.com/Projects/HCE2012/hce2012.html

Upcoming Events:
December 17th- Polar Express Day
December 18th- Winter Party at 2:45PM**
   **If you are available to help with the party or donate items please let me know!
December 19th-Jan 1st= Winter Break

Turkeys, Thanksgiving and Thankfulness

Check out our fabulous "Family Turkey Projects!" Students and families did a wonderful job working together to make their terrific turkeys! They are so creative and unique!!!!

This week our theme has been turkeys. We've read books about turkeys, researched about turkeys and wrote about turkeys. Here is our turkey writing displayed in the hallway. Around the writing you will find fact family turkeys. Each turkey uses three numbers to create a fact family with two addition and two subtraction number sentences.

 

 

 

Last but certainly not least we've been talking about Thanksgiving and what it means to be thankful. We have written "I am thankful for..." sentences on leaves and added them to our thankful tree in the hallway. Here is our thankful tree and a few leaves.

 

 

 

This Friday is College Shirt Day! I also want to wish you and your family a happy, fun and safe Thanksgiving. I am very thankful to teach and have your child in my class. They are all such a joy!

Happy Thanksgiving!