Friday, December 19, 2014
Polar Express Day!
Remember your child can bring pillows, blankets and snacks for the movie today! Be sure to send everything in a bag so that we can send it home easier. Also, they can wear their pajamas today, too! Parties start at 2:00. Can't wait for all the fun!
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Reminder-Dress Rehearsal Tomorrow!
Be sure to send your child's costumes and practice lines! Performance starts at 9:00!
Monday, December 15, 2014
One more thing!!
There was a letter sent home today regarding PE! Please be sure to read it! If you need a swimsuit or anything else, please let me know. California Elementary will be participating on swim lessons and water safety classes beginning in January and going through March.
December Update
Please remember to look at the events for this week on your assignment sheet that went home today.
Wednesday: We will be at the High School PAC for our Christmas Play practice. We will be there from 8-11:30
Thursday: We will be at the High School PAC for Dress Rehearsal from 8-9:30. If you would like to come watch, please feel free!
Please be sure your child practices their lines every night this week. Your child will need their costume on Thursday for the rehearsal.
Our play will be December 18 at 7:00! On a side note, that's my son's 8th Birthday (Dec. 18). 8 years ago I welcomed Patrick into the world and he has been an unbelievable blessing in my life!
On Friday we will be doing Polar Express Day. Your child can wear pjs and bring blankets and pillows. We will watch the movie later in the morning and into the afternoon. Later that morning we will have our class party (2:00). If you signed up for a snack or drink, please bring those Friday.
We will complete the publishing of our narrative pieces this week. We have worked really hard on revising, editing and adding to our pieces the last several weeks.
We will also be finishing our unit on Non-Fiction and the features of Non-Fiction. We will begin sequencing and retelling stories when we come back from break. If you read with your child, have them begin to retell stories page by page including character names and setting.
Remember NO SCHOOL December 22-January 2
LAST REMINDER!! Can Food Drive ends tomorrow, we will be filling the FORD truck with our can foods and the truck will drive our can goods to the Food Bank.
As always, I appreciate all of the parents help every night with your child's homework, your dedication with helping out with class needs and the opportunity to teach your child every day!
Wednesday: We will be at the High School PAC for our Christmas Play practice. We will be there from 8-11:30
Thursday: We will be at the High School PAC for Dress Rehearsal from 8-9:30. If you would like to come watch, please feel free!
Please be sure your child practices their lines every night this week. Your child will need their costume on Thursday for the rehearsal.
Our play will be December 18 at 7:00! On a side note, that's my son's 8th Birthday (Dec. 18). 8 years ago I welcomed Patrick into the world and he has been an unbelievable blessing in my life!
On Friday we will be doing Polar Express Day. Your child can wear pjs and bring blankets and pillows. We will watch the movie later in the morning and into the afternoon. Later that morning we will have our class party (2:00). If you signed up for a snack or drink, please bring those Friday.
We will complete the publishing of our narrative pieces this week. We have worked really hard on revising, editing and adding to our pieces the last several weeks.
We will also be finishing our unit on Non-Fiction and the features of Non-Fiction. We will begin sequencing and retelling stories when we come back from break. If you read with your child, have them begin to retell stories page by page including character names and setting.
Remember NO SCHOOL December 22-January 2
LAST REMINDER!! Can Food Drive ends tomorrow, we will be filling the FORD truck with our can foods and the truck will drive our can goods to the Food Bank.
As always, I appreciate all of the parents help every night with your child's homework, your dedication with helping out with class needs and the opportunity to teach your child every day!
Sunday, December 7, 2014
First Grade Play Reminder!
Our play is December 18 at 7:00! Please remember to practice songs and lines! We will have a rehearsal on the 18th in the morning.
Monday, November 24, 2014
Academic Updates
This week is a short week. There will be no homework!
Reading: We will continue or study on Non-Fiction! We made an anchor chart last week on our Non-Fiction features. We talked about how a non-fiction book has:
Photograph-to show something
Caption-To tell about the photograph
Label-to name something
Illustration-to show a picture
Map-to show where something is
Title-to name the book
Diagram-to show what something is, to show inside, to give a picture of something
We will do a non-fiction hunt and find these feature this week. We will be looking a different books and magazines to find them!
Writing: We are beginning to revise our personal narratives this week. We are starting to process of publishing our pieces. We will begin to use everything we learned to revise our writing. We will continue to compare our writing to the writing of George McClements (The Veggie Monster). He uses ellipses to build excitement, writes exact words to show action or create a movie in the reader's mind and writes words that pop out to tell the reader to read with a strong voice. These pieces will come home by Christmas break! Your child will show you their progression of how they transformed into an amazing author!
Math: In Saxon, there is constant spiral review of all new concepts that are learned. We are learning how to make addition number sentences with a 0 as an addend. I will start sending home what is called "Math News" so that every parent is more aware of what we are doing in math. Our class does math rotations.
Science/Social Studies: We will continue our unit on Pilgrims and Indians!
Thanksgiving Feast is tomorrow 11/25-also last day of school for the week.
Stand by for more academic information for next week!!
Have a fabulous Thanksgiving and look for some cool pictures and video of our Feast!
Reading: We will continue or study on Non-Fiction! We made an anchor chart last week on our Non-Fiction features. We talked about how a non-fiction book has:
Photograph-to show something
Caption-To tell about the photograph
Label-to name something
Illustration-to show a picture
Map-to show where something is
Title-to name the book
Diagram-to show what something is, to show inside, to give a picture of something
We will do a non-fiction hunt and find these feature this week. We will be looking a different books and magazines to find them!
Writing: We are beginning to revise our personal narratives this week. We are starting to process of publishing our pieces. We will begin to use everything we learned to revise our writing. We will continue to compare our writing to the writing of George McClements (The Veggie Monster). He uses ellipses to build excitement, writes exact words to show action or create a movie in the reader's mind and writes words that pop out to tell the reader to read with a strong voice. These pieces will come home by Christmas break! Your child will show you their progression of how they transformed into an amazing author!
Math: In Saxon, there is constant spiral review of all new concepts that are learned. We are learning how to make addition number sentences with a 0 as an addend. I will start sending home what is called "Math News" so that every parent is more aware of what we are doing in math. Our class does math rotations.
Science/Social Studies: We will continue our unit on Pilgrims and Indians!
Thanksgiving Feast is tomorrow 11/25-also last day of school for the week.
Stand by for more academic information for next week!!
Have a fabulous Thanksgiving and look for some cool pictures and video of our Feast!
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Reminder!
I will be out of school today and tomorrow. If you have a scholastics order those are due tomorrow (11/21). Please return all feast items by tomorrow. Have a safe and wonderful weekend! I will be updating my blog this weekend with our academic updates and next week with our feast! I hope you have enjoyed the videos!! If you would like to see something specific on the blog, please don't hesitate to let me know!
Friday, November 14, 2014
Monday, November 10, 2014
Friday, November 7, 2014
Important Dates!
November 7-Home Game against Blair Oaks
November 10-No School-PD Day
November 11-Family Literacy Night 5-7
November 14-PTO Movie Night-Malificent
November 20-21-I will be out of the building for a conference
November 25-Mid Terms go home and First Grade Feast
November 26-28-No School-Thanksgiving Break
November 10-No School-PD Day
November 11-Family Literacy Night 5-7
November 14-PTO Movie Night-Malificent
November 20-21-I will be out of the building for a conference
November 25-Mid Terms go home and First Grade Feast
November 26-28-No School-Thanksgiving Break
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Small Pumpkins, Needed!
If you can donate some small pumpkins, please let me know! We will be doing a fun activity with them on Thursday!
Email at: danielle.morrow@californiak12.org
Email at: danielle.morrow@californiak12.org
Monday, October 27, 2014
Not at School
I was out today because of a sick child. Please look for the assignment sheet tomorrow with homework!
Monday, October 13, 2014
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Way to go cards!! And some more pics/info for rotations!
Mrs. Gosnell working with words!
Independent work with words. Sorting beginning sounds!
Independent practice! Poetry!
Fire drill practice, we did great!
Learning to make abab patterns!
We are working hard this week!!
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