Fire Safety/Columbus Day

Happy Christopher Columbus Day! Ask your student why we still celebrate Christopher Columbus in 2012!

This week is Fire Safety Week and we will be having a special program tomorrow afternoon that will help us remember to stay safe both at home and at school.

I just updated Spelling City with this week's spelling words and sight words. If you are looking for a fun way to review the spelling words, click on the Spelling City link to the right of this post.

Have a wonderful evening!

Don't forget that we have the Book Fair tomorrow from 1:30 until 2:00! You are welcomed to come help your student shop!

Today, your student is bringing home letter cards that we cut in class. We made several words with them. Tonight, you could review the phonics skills we are learning by telling your student words that they can make.  Suggested words: rat, mat, pat, sat, tap, rap, map, nap, ran, man, pan.

Have a wonderful wet night!

Our First Grade Blog

Welcome to our class blog! I am very excited to use this tool to communicate information to you throughout the week! Please reference this page for information regarding upcoming special events, assignments, and tidbits about our day! Some of my favorite educational websites are posted under "Links to Learning." Students love using these websites to learn during the school day and would benefit from visiting the websites at home! I hope you and your student enjoy the blog!

Have a wonderful evening! :-)

Summer is here!

I am sitting in our classroom, checking over report card comments, and missing my little first grade friends! It feels so strange for the room to be empty at this time of day. I am very proud of their accomplishments this school year. I don't know if I have ever had a group of students who had so much enthusiasm about reading! I hope to keep this blog updated throughout the summer. Who knows what kind of trouble Brady the dog might get into that I will need to report!


Enjoy your summer and keep in contact with me through my email address! edgarj@cmsd.k12.pa.us

First Grade Preview!

My computer CRASHED yesterday, and I was not able to print the preview! They are bringing a new computer first thing Monday morning, so I'll be able to send a letter home! Now that we've finished the readingn series, we'll be reviewing a lot of the concepts we have covered throughout the school year over the course of the next couple of weeks. I'm really excited to have this time to review!

Yesterday, we continued practicing the "oi/oy" sounds by writing words in soil! If you child came home with dirty hands, you now know the cause! I found this idea on a fun teacher blog I follow!



The students did a FABULOUS job with DIBELS testing this past week! I can't wait for you to see their scores!


Have a wonderful weekend!

Happy Monday! We have had a lot going on in first grade! Our field trip to Oglebay Good Zoo was a blast! We had beautiful weather and the program we saw about habitats was very interesting! We continued discussing habitats today in class. You can find some more information about several habitats and animals that live in them on enchanted learning. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/rainforest/animals/Sampling.shtml

Today, "That Guy with the Birds" came to our school! He had a very interesting program and the birds were hilarious!!! Your child may be interested to check out his website: http://www.budwings.com/.
Here is a video with some of  the birds! One bird does a little bit of talking and funny laughing! Your child will definitely be curious to see this! http://www.wqed.org/ondemand/onq.php?id=10. (You'll probably have to copy the link and paste it into your browser.)

 I'm doubtful that we will have Field Day tomorrow due to the wet conditions, but we will see!

Have a great night!

Reminders!

• We will be taking the spelling test on Thursday this week due to the field trip to Oglebay on Friday! 

• Our field trip is this Friday, May 11th! Please make sure your child wears his/her Field Day shirt and brings their lunch if you indicated this on the permission slip! I cannot wait for this fun trip!!!!

• We will try again to have Field Day next Tuesday, May 15th! Please remember students can bring sunglasses, hats, and wear sunscreen! Please make sure your child wears his/her Field Day t-shirt!