Field Trip Reminder...

This is a reminder that we will be going on our first field trip tomorrow.  We will leave the school at 8:15.  Please be sure your child is on time.  We are walking to Canyon Ridge High School.  The librarian puts on a very nice presentation about libraries for us.  It is educational and fun.  Be sure your child is wearing good shoes for walking and brings a jacket.  It will be chilly.  We will only cancel if it is pouring down rain.  We can walk in light rain.  If it looks like rain, you may choose to send an umbrella with your son or daughter.  We will be back to the school before lunch. 

Thanks and have a great night!

Class Pictures

Picture packets were sent home in yesterday's homework folder.  Picture day is September 24th.  Be sure to find the packet and send it back to school if you would like to order pictures.

A Former Student...

Today we had one of my former students visit our class.  This third grader won the reward to read a book to a second grade class.  We were glad she chose our class.  Students in my class have the same opportunity.  When we begin the Accelerated Reading program students can earn rewards.  One of the rewards is the chance to read to a first grade class. 

The first few weeks...

Things are starting to come along in our class.  Students are starting to adapt to the routines and procedures of our classroom.  We are working hard each day.

We covered a short graphing unit in math.  Students were very good at creating graphs.  They struggled with trying to answer questions about the graph.  They did very well with the simple interpreting questions, but struggled when it came time to compare.  We worked hard on vocabulary like combined, difference, more than, less than, and how many more.  We will continue to work on this throughout the year.

Up next, in math, is time.  Students should all be very familiar with time to the hour and half hour.  If you see that your student is struggling with this, please practice at home.  Today we started looking at time to the five minutes.  This was very hard for students who could not count by fives.  See if your child can count by 5's to 100. 

Thanks for all of your hard work at home.  If you have any questions, please contact me at anytime.  You have great kids.  Thanks for letting me get to know them.