Snowflake Video

Great Website

The kids wanted me to post this website online for all parents.  This website has a very cute snowman video and some other fun and enjoyable videos.

www.supersimplelearning.com

Here is another website where your kids can watch the reindeer at the North Pole:

www.reindeercam.com

Check these websites out, they are great!!

It's Been A Long Time!!

We have to catch up on quite a bit, but first I will start with the current events!!  This month is SUPER busy for all of the first graders!  Here is a list of the following events that are coming up:

December 12-Wednesday-Practice for Music Program at the High School Performing Arts Center

December 13-Thursday-Dress Rehearsal at 9:00 AM and Music Program at 7:00 PM in the High School Performing Arts Center. 
*All parents are welcome to attend the dress rehearsal and program.

December 12-Wednesday-Making Gingerbread Houses-Here are the following items that are needed:
*Nabisco Graham Crackers
*White Icing in a tub
*Gum Drops
*M&Ms
*Skittles
*Peppermint Wheels
*Fruit Loop Cereal
*Hershey's Kisses
*Red Licorice
*Paper Plates

December 19-Wednesday-Food Pantry Donations-We are not doing gift exchanges this year, instead we will collect canned foods for the Food Pantry.  Please bring those by December 19th.

Week of December 17-21-Polar Express Week-  We will be doing a lot of math, literacy, writing and craftivities around the Polar Express book.  On Thursday, December 20th, we will participate in Pajama Day.  Your child can wear pajamas on this day.

December 21-Friday-Holiday Party.  If you would like to bring a snack or drink, please send a note to me ASAP. 

Thank you so much for all of your support!!

Mrs. Morrow

Red Ribbon Week

Monday - Wake up Drug Free (Wear your PJ's)
Tuesday - Don't get Mixed up in Drugs (Mix Matched Clothes)
Wednesday - Drugs Give Me the Blues (Wear Blue)
Thursday - Color Our World Drug Free ( Class Colors)
Friday - Team up Against Drugs (Favorite Sports Team/ Player)

Peach Tree Farm!

We had a wonderful and exciting day at Peach Tree Farm!  We learned all about big pumpkins, small pumpkins, bumpy pumpkins and smooth pumpkin, bunnies, puppies, catfish, chicks, goats, mules and a crazy hay maze!!

Pumpkins

We are beginning to study the life cycle of pumpkins and all about pumpkins this week.  We will be doing a fun activities on Halloween Day and our class need five pumpkins.  If there are any parents out there that would be able to donate a pumpkin to our class, we would greatly appreciate it!  I hope all are having a fun day off!

Parent-Teacher Conferences

October 25 12-6
October 26 8-11

Homework Reminder

Please be sure to check your child's bag or Friday Folder.  The homework for the next week is either making the Habitat Mobile or a Habitat Digraph in a shoe box. 

Way to Go Pintos!

We have several football players in our class and several mini cheerleaders!  Are football team is undefeated this year, Yay!!  I hope everyone was able to make it out to the game last night and see our mini cheerleaders!  This week was crazy, it started off warm then quickly changed to very cold and rainy.  There are some northern states that are getting snow already!  We are not convinced to turn on the heat yet and we actually opened our windows at school yesterday.  The kids are doing so great at our routines and really settling into getting to know each other in the classroom and other classes.  Here are some photos of what they have been doing this week:

Box Tops!

We have over 100, keep them coming!!  Also, thank you so much for all of the support at the PTO Carnival on Saturday! 

Reminders!!

Please be sure to turn in your scholastics order by Friday.  I sent a letter home yesterday with information/instructions on how to order online. 
Homework is due tomorrow.
Mid-Quarter Progress Reports go home tomorrow.
The purple Friday folder needs to be turned in tomorrow so that I can fill it out and send it back out tomorrow.  Please try to get those Friday folders returned  by Monday.

NEED:
If you have any discman cd players lying around that you are no longer using, could our class please have them?  We do a Listen to Reading in our Daily Five Reading routine and right now only one student can participate.  If we could get a few more, we could have more students participate in Listen to Reading.

Thank you and have a great day!!

REMINDERS!!

Picture Day is tomorrow!  Movie night on Friday at the Elementary School (Gym) at 7:00!!  Mid-quarter reviews go home on Friday and new homework went home today!  Thank you and have a beautiful week!

Short but Fun Week!

This week has been great!  We have begun science this week and the students are loving it!  Students brought home some small books about living and non-living things/science projects that you can do with your child.  We will be working on the color blue and doing many different activities with blue!  We have read some great books, "Dear Mr. Blueberry" and "Blueberries for Sal".  We wrote our own letters to Mr. Blueberry and counting blueberries!  We learned different ways of making six and seven.  We used a lot of counters and cubes to make those numbers!  We are still doing some review in handwriting and spelling but we are moving well into this so that we can begin our spelling units very soon.

We began writing stories in writing and we will end our writing unit and begin reviewing some writing rules.

Reminders:

• Friday 9/7-Home football game against Eldon

• Tuesday 9/11-School Pictures

• Homework began this week and we need to be sure that this is turned in on Friday of each week.

• Begin Collecting Box Tops!  There will be three classes that will win based on how many Box Tops we collect!

• Saturday 9/29-PTO Carnival-We need volunteers

• October 16, 2012-Field Trip to Peach Tree Farm-More information to come

I am so happy that all of your first graders came this week to open house and to the first two days of school.

We did a lot of review on the rules of the classroom, cafeteria, hallway, gym and bathroom/water fountains!  I am so happy to have all of the students that I have.  I know this year will be great and we will learn a lot!

Math
We are going to be reviewing numbers throughout this week and reviewing what they learned in kindergarten. I will be assessing what we need to review again so that our foundations are strong before we begin anything new.

Handwriting/Spelling
We will be reviewing all letters and the way we write those letters.  As we begin practicing those letters, we will also be reviewing each letter sound to be sure we have the strength of the phonics portion in place before we begin our spelling units! 

Phonics
We will have a color of the week and we will be practicing handwriting and spelling while reviewing all of our colors.  Your child will participate in a daily activity that includes the color of the week.  Our color this week is RED!  If possible please have your child wear red so that we can be surrounded by our color throughout the week!

Reading
We will begin to introduce the idea of reading to self.  There will be several activities that the students can participate in during our reading portion of the day in which they will learn ways to read to themself!  Your child will help make a chart that will be displayed in the classroom on how they can read to self.

Science/Social Studies
We will continue to focus on ways to be friends inside the classroom and throughout the year.  Your child has been working on a cafeteria expectation lunch box and will begin working on a friendship book.

Star of the Week
At the end of the week, the student with the most "Caught Being Good" tickets will be able to be the star of the week the following week.  The star of the week entails a bulletin board that displays pictures of the student that will be brought from home and different cool facts about that student.  They will make a "Star of the Week" book and the class will help write this book, as well!

This week the students will be able to check out books on Thursday, we should have a lot of fun!!

If there are any sheets that need to be signed by parents/guardians, please remember to turn those in next week.

I will see everyone on Monday morning ready to learn!!

Last Day of Work AND New day at California

My last day of work will be Tuesday of next week (7/31/12)!  I will be sad to say goodbye, but sooo excited to start preparing for all of those first graders coming into my classroom in about three short weeks!  I cannot wait to begin on Wednesday!  I have had a lot of very nice cards sent to me with kind words from various employees and branches and a few gift certificates to buy some things for my classroom.  Needless to say, I have convinced James to take me to Columbia for a small afternoon trip tomorrow to do some shopping! 

New Blog, New Teacher, New Year

Hi Everyone!
I am very excited about this new journey and career in my life.  This is my first year teaching first grade and first year teaching overall!  This is also my son's first year in school, he will be starting kindergarten this year!  There are a lot of firsts for my family and we are incredibly happy to begin everything.  There will be more to come, please come back!!