Read Across America Week!

What another wonderful weekend!! We have an extremely busy week ahead, take a look…

Reading ~ Our focus sound this week is /u/ as in umbrella. This week’s word wall words are: be, run, but, if, thank, fast, us, if, were.

Math ~ We will begin Chapter 21 on Fractions this week. Please continue to practice addition and subtraction math facts at home.

Language ~ We will focus on grammar rule 22 this week.  Rule 22 ~ Use is with one and are with more than one.  We are constantly reviewing rules that we have already learned this year which includes ALL grammar rules 1 – 21.

In other news~

Spirit Night at Baumhower’s ~ Don’t worry about dinner tomorrow night, it’s Spirit Night at Baumhower's on the Eastern Boulevard.  This is one more way we earn money for our school.  Be sure and tell them you are from Blount Elementary!

PTA Meeting on Tuesday!  The multi-cultural festival and PTA meeting is this Tuesday night at 6:00.  There will be many countries represented with food, decorations, and dress.  The festival and food will start at 6:00. The teacher with the highest percentage of parents and students in attendance will win a $50 gift card to Wal-Mart. Please try to come and be SURE to sign in! The meeting will not last past 7:00.  Hope to see you all there!

Cookie Dough ~ Those who ordered cookie dough can pick up their order on the cafeteria on Wednesday, March 2 from 2:00-5:30.  Thank you to everyone who bought or sold cookie dough!!

 

READ ACROSS AMERICA ACTIVITIES

Tuesday: DEAR Time… Drop Everything And Read.  The children may bring a stuffed animal or doll to school to read with on Tuesday!

Wednesday:  The children can bring a favorite book to share with the class.  I will be reading these the remainder of the week so I may ask them to bring their favorite book several days or they may either leave it at school until we read it. I discovered many new books when the children brought their favorite books in the fall.  I am looking forward to seeing what comes in this week!!

Thursday:  Book Character Parade at 9:30!!  Come dressed as your favorite character from a book.  Don’t forget to make and wear a sign telling everyone what character you are and the book your character is from.

Friday:  Hats off to great books! Wear a silly or favorite hat to wear while we have a great time reading!!

Have a wonderful week!! Hugs!

Muffins for Moms!

     

              

                              

A huge   thank you   to our wonderful PTA for organizing and providing the yummy Muffins for Moms! What a wonderful way to start the day!

Signs of Spring??

 

                      

I am beginning to think our groundhog friend “Happy Tracker” may have made the right prediction this year! Wow! We love this wonderful weather!! I hope everyone was able to get outside and have fun during this extra long weekend. This beautiful flower was growing in my backyard and I just had to share it with you! I hope it makes you smile! H

I am looking forward to seeing all of my sweet little firsties in the morning. We have a busy week ahead!

Reading ~ Our focus sound this week is /er/ as in sister and /oo/ as in book. This week’s word wall words are: after, her, about ,all, long, call, must, fall, and under. Since I was out unexpectedly last week we will have our word wall test this Thursday.

Math ~ We will finish up Chapter 14 and test on it this week.  Look for the review sheet to come home the night before we test.  Please continue to practice addition and subtraction math facts at home.

Language ~ We will focus on grammar rule 21 adding es to nouns ending with sh, ch s or x to mean more than one.  We are constantly reviewing rules that we have already learned this year which includes ALL grammar rules 1 – 20.

 

Other News ~

We will be celebrating Read Across America Week during  February 28-March 4th.  We will have a school wide character book parade on Thursday, March 3.  Begin thinking of a character from your child's favorite book to dress up as. Our annual school wide character book parade will be on Thursday, March 3 at 9:30. Details are coming home this week.

We are continuing to track the weather with other children all across North America.  Our Project Groundhog Journals will let us know if Happy Tracker’s prediction was correct this year.  We are on week 3 of 6! 

Muffins for Moms is Wednesday, February 23 and Thursday, February 24. Please walk your sweet firstie to our classroom after you enjoy your muffin so I can get a quick photo of both of you together!

Don’t forget that our Community Spirit project, Adopt-a-Bird money is due tomorrow, February 22.

We are in need of paper towels in our classroom.  If you would be so gracious to send a roll that would be wonderful!

A big thank you to Amanda Smith for organizing our Valentine’s Party! It was a wonderful party and everyone had such a “lovely” time!

Thank you for the support and encouragement you show for Room 123.  Have a great week!

HUGS!!

  Celebrating Valentine’s Day!

Love getting ready for Valentine’s Day!

                                   

Sparkle, Sparkle, Sparkle….we love some GLITTER!!

                     Oh so FUN!!

             

Love, Friendship, First Grade!

We have been extremely busy this month!! Groundhogs, 100th day activities, {that lasted past the 100th day!:)} Now we are way excited about our fun Valentine Party! And we still have lots to learn .. President’s Day, Dental Health, and American Education Week.  Friday we were all glittered up putting the finishing touches on our Valentine Bags! It was sooo much fun! Our Valentine Party will be tomorrow from 1:30 – 2:15, we would “love” for you to join us if you can. 

This week our focus letter is /f/ as in frog.  The word wall words are bring, green, one, fly, sing, two, get, three.  We will have a word wall assessment this Thursday.

We will cover DOL rules 20 and 21 this week. Rule 20 – Add s to most nouns to mean more than one.  Rule 21 – Add es to some nouns to mean more than one.

Math – We will begin Chapter 14 – Addition and Subtraction Facts to sums of 12.

         Read Across America Week

            February 28 – March 4

  We will be celebrating Read Across America Week during  February 28-March 4th.  We will have a school wide character book parade on Thursday, March 3.  Begin thinking of a character from your child's favorite book to dress up as.  We will parade around the school, parents are invited to attend.   I will be sending details home about this exciting week. This is always a fun and exciting time for everyone at Blount!

Project Groundhog -  We continue to record the daily high and low temperature for this North American project.  For the first week of recording we had an average temperature of 48 degrees with three cloudy days and two rainy days.  We noticed a pattern of warming temperatures but our prediction of spring arriving soon was diminished by last Thursday and Friday's cold weather.   

Please remember to send in your RSVP for Muffins for Moms.  The RSVP is located on the front page of the Blount newsletter for February.  Muffins for Moms is Wednesday, February 23 and Thursday, February 24. Please walk your sweet firstie to our classroom after you enjoy your muffin so I can get a quick photo of both of you together!

Have a “lovely” week!! Hugs!

Happy Tracker & Groundhog Day!

    

100 year old friends!

Solid Shapes

Pictures of Picture Day!!

Announcing ~ Happy Tracker!

I don’t know if you have heard but we have a new member in Room 123.  We have a little stuffed…….GROUNDHOG, {also known as a woodchuck or a whistle pig!} B  We have learned so much about this cute little rodent! Needless to say, he has been quite a hit!  We are participating in an online Groundhog Project to see if the groundhog’s prediction is reliable.  Last week we had to come up with a name for our class groundhog.  After lots of discussion and many great ideas we narrowed it down and voted…… Happy Tracker was the winner.  We have a groundhog journal where we are recording the weather and the temperature each day for the next six weeks.  Each week I will enter our data along with classrooms all across North America that are participating in the project.  So stay tuned…….and we will let you know if Happy Tracker’s prediction was correct this year. 

Our focus sound this week is /g/ as in gorilla.  This week’s word wall words are: white, big, go, there, no.

In math we are studying Solid Shapes.  We will not test on this chapter.  Please continue to practice addition and subtraction facts at home. 

We have added grammar rules 17 & 18, {using them and they}. We are constantly reviewing rules that we have already learned this year.  We started ABC order a while back and the children have done fabulous with it! Please be sure and go over DOL paper that is sent home each night.  Remember that I chose one sentence from each day for our DOL grade on Friday.

Please remember to write a note when your child is ready to take an AR test.  Everyone should have taken at least three tests by Friday.  Let me know if you have any questions.

In other news~

Tuesday, February 8th   Book orders are due.   

Thursday, February 10th we will have Spring Pictures.  Children do not have to wear uniforms but must adhere to MPS dress code policies.

First Grade Community Spirit Project!!

Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research Center's

Gulf Coast's Adopt a Bird

Experts from Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research rehabilitate oiled wildlife following the Deepwater Horizon incident in the Gulf of Mexico.  Please help us adopt a bird, or two, or three! We are collecting money to help with the bird rescue after the recent oil spill.  Hopefully our sweet little firsties are helping out around the house trying to earn some extra money. While we certainly don’t want them to donate all of their money, if everyone donated just a little, we could adopt a bird!

 

AAA   Happy Valentine’s Day!!   AAA

Monday, February 14th ~ Happy Valentine’s Day!! Our class party will be from 1:30 – 2:15.  Please feel free to join us if you can.  Also please make sure to send your child’s valentines in already addressed no later than Monday morning.  We will pass them out that morning so the children can read them during the party.  If you want to send them in early feel free to!

Have a “sweet” week!!