Wacky hair/ Mystery Reader

The students enjoyed wearing Wacky hair on Friday!
They also enjoyed having Zach's dad as a mystery reader this past Friday. Zach's dad taught the class some fun information about the spine. They enjoyed his visit very much.

Reminders

• Tickets for raffle baskets are being sold Wednesday - Friday during lunch outside PD Room.
• Donate a Dollar and wear Wacky Hair on Friday for Adopt- A- Family.
• Friday- Concord Spirit Day

Check out the students in our class who
"Hit a Grand Slam for Character" this month!
Way to go, First Graders!

 

 

Please encourage your child to continue to make great character choices and hopefully they will be recognized next month. The goal is that every student will be recognized by May. If your child gets recognized, a red note will come home explaining that your child was recognized and he/she will need baseball cap for the Character Assemblies. Once your child has been recognized, they will wear a baseball hat to the monthly Character Assemblies.

 

 

Exciting News! Miss Richardson will be a teacher intern in our classroom next semester. Many of you got the chance to meet her at the Curriculum Night this past August. We are excited to have her in the classroom and co- teaching with Mrs. Boyd. She will be visiting the classroom this month and then she will start officially after the winter break.

 

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December Dates

Hello Families,
Here are some important dates to remember for December:

11/30 Ticket due date for Winter Festival
12/4-12/8 Concord Scholastic Book Fair
12/ 5 Early Release
12/8 Winter Festival
12/20 Winter Parties
12/21 No School/ record day

Mystery Reader/ Adopt-a-Family

Thank you to everyone for donating to Adopt a Family this week. Every little bit helps our family in need. Our class donated $19.35 today to Adopt a Family from "Jingles for Jammies". Way to go First Graders!!

We had another Mystery Reader today.
Thank you to Matthew's dad for coming in to read to us.

Burrr.../ Early Release Reminder

FYI:
Now that the weather is getting colder please be sure to dress your child appropriately for school. Your child goes outside for recess 20 minutes each day. Please make sure they have a winter coat, hat and gloves when needed. When in doubt, send them with winter coats. Being outside on the playground is much colder than just waiting for the bus or walking into the building from the bus or car.



Here are two examples of students dressed appropriately for recess!

 

 

Adopt-A-Family
Please send in paper products this week. As you can see, we are keeping track of our donations! Thank you for your support!

 

 

Don't Forget- Tomorrow is an early release day.

 

Friday- Jingles for Jammies- bring spare change to donate

to Adopt-A-Family.



 

 

Subtraction Practice

The students practiced subtraction skills on the interactive white board today. They really enjoyed "subtracting".

 

Yesterday they enjoyed their laptop time in the afternoon. They love going to the blog and choosing educational activities to explore.

 

 

Fall Festival Slide Show

Don't forget- Read-A-Thon- bring a dollar and a favorite book(s) to school tomorrow.

Thank you/ "Kick Off" to Service Learning

Thank you so much to all the parents for coming to your child's conference. As I stated before, I really enjoy telling you about your child's progress and all the wonderful learning going on in First Grade. I am very proud of all of the hard work the students have put into their learning this quarter. Way to Go Mrs. Boyd's Busy Bees!!

 

"Kids Voting" pictures from today

 

 

 





 

 

Reminders for Next Week:

11/5 No School

11/6 No School

 

 (please see the flier in your child's folder for the 3-day week)

 

11/7 Read A- Thon at Concord (see flier)

11/8 PJ- A-Thon

11/9 Wear Red, white and blue/ Block -A-Thon

 

Stay "connected" I will post a slide show of the Fall Festival pictures this weekend.

 

Fall Festival

Tomorrow is Fall Festival. Your child will need to wear regular clothes and tennis shoes tomorrow for the pumpkin run. Please make sure your child brings their costume in a bag with their name on it. Please do not send your child to school in their costume. They will change into their costume at 1:15pm. Please make sure your child's costume is appropriate for school- no masks and no weapons.

We had another Mystery Reader today. Brian's mom came to read to the class this morning. We really enjoyed the book she read to the class. The book was donated to our classroom. The company Brian's mom works for is donating the books to our classroom library. We are so lucky to have her come read to us throughout the school year and get more books added to our classroom library.

 

 

 

Thank you very much to all the parents that came to their child's conference last night! I enjoyed meeting with all of you and really enjoyed telling you about your child progress so far!

 

 

 

Our Second Mystery Reader

Hello Families,
We had our second Mystery Reader yesterday. We were so lucky to have Roniel's grandparents in town from Israel. They were able to visit the classroom and her grandma was The Mystery Reader. The students really enjoyed meeting Roniel's mom, grandparents and baby brother.

Red Ribbon Week (The Best ME is Drug Free):

• Thursday- pajama day! (Put Drugs to Bed)
• Friday- show your Concord Spirit. (Proud to be Drug Free)

Reminders:

• Make sure you check your child's folder for Fall Festival information.
• Conferences are next week. Do you remember your scheduled time?
• Fall Festival/ Pumpkin Run October 31st. Did you sign and return your child's permission form for the pumpkin run?
• We need Mystery Readers!!! Who can be a Mystery Reader? mom, dad, grandparent, aunt, uncle... an important person in your child's life. Just email Mrs. Boyd if you would like to schedule a time to come in and read one book.

• Be sure to check out the "Celebrations" section on the left side of the blog!

Here are some pictures from Tuesday.



"BYOD" day was a success!!

The students really enjoyed "BYOD" day. They did a great job sharing their device and talking about the things they can do on it. The next time we have a device day they will have some specific  things they will need to do with their device. They will go on a scavenger hunt with their device and search for some a list things and take pictures and video of to show what they found. The pictures will be connected to several different academic activities. I look forward to the next device day!!

Here are some fun pictures from today:

 

 

 

 

 

BYOD (Bring your own device day)

We will have a "Bring Your Own Device" day on Friday, October 19th. Your child may bring in their smart device on Friday. If your child does not have a smart device, I can find a device for them to use. Please remember that your child is responsible for the device they bring to school. Your child will be expected to keep their device in their backpack when we are not using it. The classroom door will be locked when we leave the room for safe keeping. The students are looking forward to their first BYOD day!

If you have any questions please feel free to contact me!

 

 

 

The students will be creating a writing "goal". They will have a reminder paper and a graph to use for tracking their goal. They will work on this goal during Daily 5, writing block, science and social studies. I will share their goal with you at conferences!





 

 

We are Busy Bees!

Here are pictures of our work displayed in the hallways.

 

 

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October Reminders

Reminders:

10/5 Custodian's Day
10/10 Powell Hall Field Trip
10/ 12 Scholastic book Orders Due/ Family Bingo Night 7:30-9pm
10/19 1/2 day, First Quarter Ends
10/22 Red Ribbon Week
10/29 Conferences
10/31 Fall Festival/ Halloween Parties
11/1 Conferences
11/5 No School
11/6 No School

Spelling principle this week: change the beginning letter of a known word. like to bike, hike...

Mystery Reader

We had our first Mystery Reader: Miss Richardson!
She came back on Thursday to be a Mystery Reader to the class. Miss Richardson is now with a second grade class and learning about second grade for a few weeks. The students really enjoyed having a Mystery Reader. If you are interested in coming in to read to the class, please email me. We would love to schedule a time for you to come in and read!!

Reminders:

•  Don't forget that Picture Day is tomorrow. You may send a change of clothing for your child to change into after the pictures are taken. We say "cheese" at 9:40am tomorrow.
• Powell Hall field trip permission form came home today- look for it in your child's folder. Please send it back as soon as you can.
• No School Friday- Professional Development Day/ All District Football Night @ LHS
• Scholastic Book Orders came home today- due Oct. 12th.

 

Hi Families,

        Today your child will bring home their first Spelling list. With this program, each child will choose 5 words from a list generated by the teacher and students based on a spelling principle or theme.  The other 5 words will be taken from the sight word lists in the back of their planner. The students were tested over the words and the words highlighted are the words they already know how to write correctly. Please do not highlight in their palnner, your child will highlight the sight words as they get them correct on the written spelling test.  

The students will make two lists – one to keep at school and one on the homework packet.  Please remember that the spelling list is on the front of the homework packet. They will have a weekly spelling test on Fridays. 

 

This week's spelling principle: add a letter to a little word

example little word: and

                s + and    sand

                b+ and    band

                l+ and     land

Thanks- Mrs. Boyd

reminders

Parents here are a few reminders for tomorrow:

• Concord Spirit Day
• Field Trip Permission Form Deadline
• Scholastic Book Orders Due (if ordering online please order by 10am)
• Entertainment Books/ Money Due
• Homework Due

Updates

I hope everyone enjoyed the 3 day weekend. The students did a great job coming back to school and remembering the routines we have set in place since the first week of school.
They started Daily 5 on Friday. They are doing a good job remembering that their voices need to be  "off" unless they are reading quietly. Today there was a "buzz" in the room as they were all reading or writing. I am very proud of them!

Here are a few reminders:

•  Snack- peanut free, quick simple snack to hold them over until they get home
• Birthday treats- store bought, no nuts
• Office Forms- please turn in all of your office paperwork that you received over the summer.
• Library is on Mondays (unless we are off on Monday we will switch it for that week)
• Counseling is on Tuesdays every 3rd week.
• Please take a look at the Scholastic order forms (due date is September 14th)

We used the clickers for the first time today. During math we talked about addition number stories. We used a flipchart with number story pictures and they used the clicker to give the answer (the sum). Ask your child about the clickers! Here are a few photos:

Reminders

Hello,
We had a wonderful first week of school. The students are doing a good job learning the routines. Next week they will practice some more routines for our literacy block- Daily 5. They will also get on the laptops for the first time. We have the laptops on Wednesday afternoons. They will learn how to log in with their user name, password, and get onto the class blog. Please make sure your child has their headphones/ ear buds by Wednesday the 29th.

I look forward to seeing all of you on Tuesday August 28th for Curriculum Night. Please come to the classroom (room 22) at 6:30pm.

Here are some fun pictures of the students reading to their stuffed animal for "Read to Self" (one of the Daily 5 choices that they are learning about). They really enjoy reading to the stuffed animals.