We've joined together as classmates
as the new year begins...
A year full of learning
while we become friends.
We'll share and be kind
as we work and play.
And our friendship will grow
with each passing day.
They may forget what you said but they will
never forget how you made them feel.
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4thrd 9 weeks: Continuing DLR, Daily Language
Review. The students will practice multiple language skills. We are
continuing vocabulary development along with learning about blends, digraphs,
capitalization and punctuation. Our classroom activities will provide
reinforcement and skills needed to build a foundation for learning how to
read and write. We will
continue to use the Visual Phonics to practice phonemic awareness. YEEHAW Handwriting In the first grade, your child will be using the Zaner-Blosser
Handwriting Program. Our main goal is to help your child learn to write
legibly. The four keys to legibility are shape, size, spacing and slant.
This program builds automaticity in reproduction of the alphabet, so students are free to focus on
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Remember
that learning to read takes time and lots of PATIENCE. Try to
let you child figure out the word before you tell them what it is. Have your child
sound out the letters out loud so they can hear the word. All children learn to
walk at different times. The same is true with reading. Each child will read
when they are ready. Be sure to have your child retell what happened in the
beginning, middle and end of the story. We will also be working on story
settings, characters, and problem/solution.
Ask your child these open-ended questions during reading to help them think
about their learning:
Reading
list website: http://www.mesalibrary.org/kids/reading_elem/first.asp
What could that word be?
What pictures
match with the story?
What is
happening in this picture?
How is this
supposed to sound?
How do you
know this is making sense?
Something
doesn't sound right. What would make sense?
What could
fit in there?
How did you
figure that out?
You went back
and fixed that. How did you know what to do?
When have you
done that before?
What might
help you figure out this word?
What do you
know about reading that might help you now?
What other
way could you try that?
What is the
same (different) here?
What letter
does that word start (or end) with?
What other
word looks like that?
What do you
hear at the beginning (or at the end)?
What sounds
do you hear?
What do you
think it might say?
What do you
predict might happen?
How did you
find the answer?
How did you
do that?
Reading Tips:
Make
15 minutes go a long way. Try these quick reading activities with your younger
kids.
1. License to read. On
car trips, make it a game to point out and read license plates, billboards, and
interesting road signs.
2. Better than TV. Swap evening TV for a good action story or
tale of adventure.
3. Look and listen. Too tired to read aloud? Listen to
a book on tape and turn the book's pages with your children. You'll still be
reading with them!
4. Labels, labels, labels. Label things in your children's
room as they learn to name them. Have fun while they learn that written words
are connected to everyday things.
5. Pack a snack, pack a book. Going someplace where there might
be a long wait? Bring along a snack and a bag of favorite books.
6. Recipe for reading. The next time you cook with your
children, read the recipe with them. Step-by-step instructions, ingredients,
and measurements are all part of words in print!
7. Shop and read. Notice and read signs and labels in the
supermarket. Back home, putting away groceries is another great time for
reading labels.
8. Your long-distance lap. Away on a business trip? Take a
few books with you, call home, and have your child curl up by the phone for a
good night story.
9. A reading pocket. Slip fun things to read into your
pocket to bring home: a comic strip from the paper, a greeting card, or even a
fortune cookie from lunch. Create a special, shared moment your child can look
forward to every day.
10. A little longer? When your child asks to stay up a
little longer, say yes and make it a 15-minute family reading opportunity.
After we
finish Smart Start, a vocabulary list will be sent home at the beginning of a
new story. Also practice reading books will be sent home at the end of the
week. These books contain the vocabulary words for more practice. Please keep
the words and books in a baggie and practice with your child. These are to be
read over and over for practice, fluency, and reading success.
A.R. is another important component to
helping your child become a successful reader. Each night your child should
bring home an A.R. book. Your child must read "to" or
"with" or someone the book three
times. If your child is reading independently please listen to them read.
After reading the book three times they will read to an adult at school and
take an A.R. test.
When your child reaches their set
A.R. goals they will receive and award at the Reading Renaissance Award
Assembly.
Please read
every night and return the AR books to
school daily so they can read to or with an adult when time
allows. Your child must pass an AR test
with a minimum score of 80% to count. Please refer to this page section on
Reading for open ended questions you may ask after reading the story.
Fouth Nine
Weeks: We will continue ADD = Arithmetic Done Daily in which we will practice multiple math skills
Mad Minute: The objective is to complete 60 addition or
subtraction problems in one minute or less. The students will start out with 3
minutes and will gradually decrease time.
First Grade
Math Skills
~Problem
Solving~
*Identify
the number of elements in a set of 100
*Identify
ordinal numbers (first, second, etc.)
*Name
numbers to 999
*Identify
the set with the fewest elements
*Identify the
set with the most elements
*Identify a
number that is 10 more or 10 less than a number
*Order
numbers to 99
*Match place
value models to numerals
*Find the
place value of a digit
*Identify
the value of a number written in expanded notation
*Identify models
divided into equal parts
*Identify a
fraction that is a part of a whole
*Identify a
fraction model that is part of a group
*Count from
an initial number
*Count
backwards
*Count by
twos, fives, and tens
*Complete
geometric patterns
*Read and
interpret pictographs, tables, and tally charts
*Identify
most likely and least likely outcomes
*Estimate or
measure length using customary and metric units
*Tell time
to the nearest half hour
*Find a date
on a calendar
*Identify 1
cent, 5 cent, 10 cent, and 25 cent coins
*Count and
trade coins
~Mathematics:
Procedures~
*Addition
facts
*Subtraction
facts
*Addition of
whole numbers
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Ms.
Smith's 1st Grade Schedule 2007-2008 Ms.
Smith's 1st Grade Schedule 2007-2008 8:00-8:20 Arrival,
morning warm-up activities/AR & Library time 8:20-8:40 Opening
(attendance, welcome, calendar, pledge, money, ones, tens, hundreds) 8:40-9:15 Grammar & Spelling. DLR 9:15-9:30 RECESS 9:30-10:45 Whole
Group Reading/Centers 10:45-11:30 Phonics
& Handwriting 11:30-11:50 RECESS 11:55-12:25 LUNCH 12:25-12:40 Read Aloud 12:40-1:25 Math, Mad
Minute & ADD 1:25-1:30 Prepare
for specials 1:30-2:20 PE M-F/Swimming (T,
W, TH - by assigned day) followed
by Computer Lab alternating
with Music 2:20-2:30 Transition
Break 2:30-2:45 Snack
& Sharing 2:45-3:15 Journals
& wrap up time more AR if needed 3:15-3:30
Review day's learning, reminders
for the next day, hand out papers/notes, behavior charts 3:35 Dismiss Tuesdays: ART 10:20-11:05 Mondays: LIBRARY Friday
afternoons Team Learning: Social Studies, Science, and
special class projects & activities |
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What's the weather like today?
Be a weather watcher and know how to dress for the school day. You can
call Time & Temp at 276-1616 for current conditions and forecasts. Play “I Spy” with your child and spy things that begin, end or
have the middle sound of a letter. Be sure to count objects from 1-100. Count by 2's, 5's &
10's. Count money using like coins. Practice handwriting grocery lists, chores, names of family
members and pets. |
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If
you will be sending money $$$ to school with your child, please put it in an
envelope *
with your child's name and what it is designated for. First
grade will be going outdoors for recess as long as the weather permits. Please
send your child ready for the playground. The temperature will be a minimum
of 32 degrees. Book Orders: Please send checks
payable to the book company. You may also order books directly online. If
your child will be absent, not ride the bus or alternate person will be
picking up your child please contact the office at 277-4431. This will ensure
that your child remains safe. Be sure to
check you child's back pack everyday for AR books to read and please go over
your child's papers they bring home. Retelling and showing helps your child
to retain what they have learned. |
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Here Is
What Is Happening at the First Grade Corral Mondays:
Spelling Pre-Test Fridays:
Spelling Test PLEASE
CHECK your child's back pack DAILY! As the year draws to a close there will
be notes sent home about upcoming events and or changes. |
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Who is Ms. Smith? 
I am Bobbi J. Smith. I am a first
grade teacher at Wiley Elementary School in Holcomb, Kansas. This is my eighth
year as a teacher. During the eight years I have taught all grade levels but kindergarten,
third and fourth grade. In December of
2000, I received my B.A. from Oklahoma Panhandle State University majoring in
Elementary Education. I earned my Masters Degree in Elementary Education with
an emphasis in English as a Second Language in May 2005 from Fort Hays State
University. I received my Reading Specialist in May 2006. I have a daughter
Kallie who attends Texas Tech University and a son Kolton who attends Holcomb
High School. Please feel free to email me.
I hear, and
I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand.
-- Chinese Proverb
One Hundred Years from now
(excerpt from "Within My
Power" by Forest Witcraft)
One Hundred Years from now
It will not matter
what kind of car I drove,
What kind of house I lived in,
how much money was in my bank account
nor what my clothes looked like.
But the world may be a better place because
I was important in the life of a child.
Updated: 2-26-2008
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