Books and more books!

When the latest book box arrived yesterday, we couldn't wait to unpack it. Thanks to so many orders, I was able to order 50 new books for our classroom! 

So exciting! We spread them out and looked at them, we took a minute and chose one to look at quickly. After looking at three, we chose 2 for our book boxes. Thank you for your support with building our classroom library!

Box tops!

Collect those box tops! Today Quinn came to our class to tell is how we can help earn money for the school by collecting box tops. The kids are extra excited because there will be a pizza party for the class that brings in the most box tops. Since we have the biggest class, we think we can win!

Partners to ten

Along with solving mystery numbers in numbers sentences, a big focus in math has been building fluency with partners to make 10. The othr day we played a fun game to practice this. One child held a card on their head and the partner told them the number that goes with their card to make ten. Then the child had to figure out the number! So fun!

Sprints

Have you heard about the sprints we are doing in math? Each day we warm up our brains by doing a sprint. These sprints are different tasks that are timed for a short time (usually one minute). This builds fluency. The children are loving seeing their improvement each day. The sprints change every so often and we are loving them!

Pete the cat

Today we read Pete The Cat. To practice using scissors and glue, we created our own cats and wrote about what we would do in our school shoes. Look for these at Open House!

Exploring materials

Each day the students are exploring different materials available in the classroom. We are discovering different ways they can be used and how to care for them. We have used pattern blocks, unifix cubes, dominoes, tiny sea creatures and bugs and frogs, wooden blocks and more! Ask your child which material they have enjoyed using and how they used it!

First day!

The first day of first grade was great! Here are some photos of our day: