They had a wonderful Winter Party! Thank you to Logan’s mom for organizing a great party. Thank you to all of our parent volunteers! We appreciate you! 


















They really enjoyed library time on Tuesday. They used their username and password to login on the laptop. They explored Santa Tracker and had a blast. 

Thinking of ideas, collaborating, creating and sharing! 












I want to give a “shout out” to Mr. Scott! Thank you to Mr Scott, Brennan’s dad, for organizing the Helping Hands Campaign for our classroom! We collected 236 items and enjoyed helping families in need at Concord. Thank you to all of the people who donated items! We all appreciate your help! 

Reminders:

Six Flags Reading Log- the log came home this week. It’s not due until February. You can put their reading minutes for the “light bulb” page on the Six Flags log too! 

Cool Math- the kiddos are really enjoying the math games on this website. There is an app as well. This may be a fun thing for your kiddo to try over break.

School Resumes Jan. 3rd

Here are our plans for January:

Reading- continue to practice good reading habits.

Word Study- long vowel patterns.

Writing- the kiddos will get to choose to write non fiction or a personal narrative ( small moment) writing piece. This will be a good way to ease back into the routine after the break. 

Math- subtraction strategies.

Social Studies- Geography 

Parent Teacher Conferences: January 29 and 31st. Dr. Moehlmann will send a link to the sign up genius in her parent email. I look forward to talking with you about you child’s progress! 

No School Feb. 1st 

Thank you for a wonderful first semester! I hope everyone has a wonderful break and I look forward to seeing the kiddos in January! 

Happy Holidays! 

Thank you for all of your hard work with the Winter Birds costumes! The students look absolutely adorable!! They did such a great job on Sunday!

We were busy this week! There is so much excitement in the air! They kids enjoyed collaborating with peers to generating ideas and be creative with different kinds of building materials. The kiddos appreciated the change of pace during our Science/ Social Studies time this week.  

 
We enjoyed our visitor from LHS on Wednesday. She read a book about Diversity and had some great discussions questions fro the kiddos!






We have been working so hard on our Non Fiction writer's Workshop books! These are the craft moves that they are putting into their nonfiction chapter book.







We are "wrapping up" our addition strategies unit in math. Look at these great strategies that they are using to solve the number sentence and find the sum!

Fredbird and Louie!!!

We had a wonderful time preparing for Fredbird's visit. The kiddos made an "Elf version" of themselves wearing Cardinals Gear! Our hallway looks so festive! 

There he is..... Fredbird!

They also worked so hard on their letter to Santa for the Macy's Believe Day- supporting the Make a Wish Foundation! For every letter written to Santa, Macy's will Donate a Dollar to The Make a Wish Foundation. 

He tried to sit at the little yellow table!! LOL! They absolutely loved it!

Happy Holidays, Louie! Thank you for delivering our letters to Santa!

What a Wonderful Friday!

academic update

Word Study:
We are still working on saying letters and sounds of the alphabet as quick as possible, short vowels sounds and word segmenting. The students are doing a good job with these skills. They will have their winter Fast Bridge/ Dyslexia Screening next week. I will share the results with you at your child's conference at the end of January. 

Writer's Workshop:
We have been very busy writing informational books. This week they will start writing non -fiction chapter books- wait what?? Yes, chapter books. They are so excited! They will think of a topic that they know a lot about. Come up with 3 or more chapter titles for their topic, sketch their ideas on each page, add words to each page, and draw teaching pictures. Wow! It is amazing to see the things they are doing during Writer's workshop! I can't wait to share their work with you in January. 

Math: 
Addition strategies is still our focus until Winter Break. They know the terms: addend, plus, sum, count on, number line, make ten, doubles fact,  and doubles plus 1. They are enjoying the math stations and using Dreambox to practice these strategies. Please keep in mind that your child may get on Dreambox as often as they like outside of school hours, but it is not required that they use Dreambox at home. 


Important Dates: 

12/5 Early Release Day : This Wednesday, December 5th, Concord will be having a World Holiday Celebration. Mrs. Carson and Mrs. Kelsch’s students will be sharing with classes different holidays their families celebrate.  We would like for everyone to wear their BEST holiday clothes no matter what holiday your family celebrates. If you celebrate Christmas, wear your special clothes, Diwali, wear your special clothes, Bajram; wear your special clothes, and  Chinese New Year, wear your special clothes. What a great way to see everyone all dressed up and celebrating all holidays!

12/7  Macy's Believe Day
Each First Grader will be writing a letter to Santa for this Friday. Louie from the St Louis Blues will be here to receive our letters to Santa for the "Macy's Believe Day". For every letter written to Santa and given to Louie, Macy's will donate a dollar to Make a Wish Foundation. 

We also have a Assembly with Fredbird on Friday- YAY! Wear Cardinal Gear on Friday.

12/ 9 Winter Musical:
Please see the email from Mrs. Creech regarding the musical. The details about your child's costume are in the email. Our class will be dressed up as Winter Birds ( Cardinals, Blue Jays, Chickadees, Woodpeckers...) Students can wear yellow or orange tights/ sweatpants and decorate a body and feathers to go with the winter bird that your child chooses. This costume needs to be created at home for this Sunday. Students need to be at the LHS auditorium no later than 1:45pm dressed in their costume and ready to sing! Thank you in advance for your support with this! They will look so cute up their as Winter Birds!

James was in the Spotlight last week! We really enjoyed his Show -n- Tell!