Grade 1b News-Celebrate Literacy Week

Celebrate Literacy Week was a very fun week full of lots of fun activities!!!!

During our Literacy block we had so many fun events throughout the week. Each day at 8:30 we did Stop, Drop and Read where we stopped what we were doing, left our mess and Miss Miranda read a story to us! We also had mystery readers come to read to us during Stop Drop and Read. On Tuesday, Mr. Raymond came to read us a story. He read us Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss. We were SOOO excited to have him come visit us! After Stop Drop and Read, we would all sit down and read our own book, even Miss Miranda and Miss Sarah would read their own books!

We also had the Library Club come surprise us during Math one day to do some buddy reading with us. Also, on Thursday we met with our buddy class, Grade 4a, to do buddy reading. We loved having older students read us stories and some of us even read stories to them, too!


In Math, we learned that 2+3 has the same answer as 3+2. We also learned how to write a vertical addition problem.

In Science, we practiced using our sense of sight and sense of smell. Miss Miranda put some mystery things in a cup and poked holes in the lids and we had to use just our noses to try to guess what was inside! Most of our guesses were correct!

In Art, we did Where the Wild Things Are paintings in honor of literacy week and Maurice Sendak.

On Thursday, we wore our costumes for Dress Like a Book Character Day and had a costume parade. We did a great job making sure that our costumes were of book characters and we had some great homemade costumes!

Here are a bunch of pictures from the week!

Sitting watching the parade

Parading Around

WOW! 100 books read in only 4 days!!! Go Grade 1b!!!!
 

Everyone looking fabulous in their costumes!

Grade 1 and 2 Teachers dressed as Goldilocks and the 3 Bears

Conferences

Thank you to the parents who confirmed their conference time or gave me two other choices.

If you have not yet, please send the conference form signed to school tomorrow so I can schedule you a time that works. If I do not receive it from you tomorrow, I will just assign you a time that works for me. You can also email me to confirm or to tell me a better time for you.


Tomorrow is Halloween. Costumes are allowed but please keep any weapons at home. Guns, knives, swords, etc are not allowed at school. Thank you. 

Parent Conferences

Today you will be receiving a note in the Home Folder with a scheduled time for your Parent Conference. If the time on the paper works for you, please sign it and send it back to school. If the time does not work for you, please either email me or leave a note in the channel book with two other alternate times that would work for you and I will try to accommodate you as best as I can.

Also, if your child has a sibling, please let me know and I can try to coordinate with that teacher to set up times that are close together.


Please get back to me by Tuesday, October 30.

Thanks for your cooperation!

Again, Happy Eid!!! I hope you enjoy a nice holiday! 

Just a reminder

Tomorrow is Dress Like a Book Character Day! If your student doesn't wear a costume, please send them in proper uniform.


Since there is not school on Thursday, please send homework and library books to school tomorrow.



Happy Eid!

Celebrate Literacy Week!!!

Hello Parents,

This week is Celebrate Literacy Week for all of Elementary. We are going to be doing A LOT of fun things to celebrate and enjoy reading this week. The one thing I want to talk to you about is that on Wednesday we are doing Dress As a Book Character Day and we will have a parade to show the school our costumes! The costume that your student wears to school needs to be a character from a book that they know about. This is not Halloween, so Halloween costumes are not acceptable. The costume MUST be of a character from a book! These will most likely be costumes that you will need to make on your own rather than just buy from the store. Please either send the book that the character is from to school or send a print out of the cover of the book so that your student can share the book with the class. Also, on Wednesday we have P.E. so the costume should be something that they can wear and still be able to participate in P.E. Of course, dressing up is optional. If your student decides not to dress up, then they need to come to school in proper uniform attire.

Characters like Ben Ten, Spongebob, Lightning McQueen are not acceptable. A general rule could be that if it was a book before it was a show or movie then it is fine. But if it was a movie before it was a book, then it is not acceptable. I have listed some ideas to help below.

Thanks for helping with bring our book characters to life and for supporting and helping celebrate literacy with your children!

Some ideas:
--The Cat in the Hat
--Arthur or D.W. from the Arthur books
--Thing 1 and Thing 2 from Cat in the Hat
--Curious George
--Dora
--Rapunzel
--Characters from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie, Violet, Oompa Loompa)
--Max or a Wild Thing from Where the Wild Things Are
--Little Red Riding Hood
--Disney Princesses
--Characters from The Wizard of Oz
--Horton from Horton Hears a Who
--The Lorax
--Tacky the Pengiun
--Pecos Bill
--The Very Hungry Caterpillar
--Winnie the Pooh Characters
--David from the David books (No, David!)
--Any Dr. Seuss Characters (Red Fish, Blue Fish, Sneetches, Cindy Lou Who, The Grinch, Ten Apples Up on Top, Sam I am)
*****For more ideas, you can do a Google search for "Dress as a book character day ideas" or "Dr. Suess Dress Up Ideas" or anything along those lines. There are TONS of ideas out there! ****

To Clarify

Homework still needs to be completed weekly. Complete the assigned homework each night and send it to school on Thursday (or Wednesday if there is no school Thursday).

The monthly chart on the homework page is simply for you to have an idea of what will we be doing for homework over the next few weeks. It is not definite, it will most likely change as sometimes we work faster or sometimes we work slower and homework will need to be adjusted to reflect that.

The chart is not for you to see the monthly work and only send homework at the end of the month. It is just an overview for you.

Please continue completing homework as you have been and sending it to school on Thursday. But as before, the reading file with completed reading log, will be sent every day.

If your student does not send homework on Thursday, then they receive a zero or a "missing" in the grade book. I grade all of the homework on the weekend. If you wait to send it until Sunday, then it is late and I will not have time to grade it. Please keep this in mind. Of course, if your student is absent on a Thursday, then sending it on Sunday is acceptable.

Thank you for your cooperation. Please email me or send a note if you have any questions or need further clarification.

Monthly Homework

During open house, some of you had asked that I post the homework month by month.

I have added a table on the homework page to give you an idea of what the homework will look like for the next 5 weeks.

However, as I said in open house, please still check it regularly because I may need to change it periodically. It is hard for me to predict exactly where we will be in 5 weeks so this is just a general idea of the homework.

If I make changes, I will let you know.