1st Week of School

We have finished our first week of school! Hooray!!! It has been a fun, busy week. We have been reading stories, practicing our letters, writing in our journals, and just getting to know each other. There are 25 students in our class with 1 more starting on Monday. Our classroom is full with 26 little bodies walking around. I can tell that everyone is eager to learn and have fun.

I should let you know that we have a foster grandma in our classroom just in case you ever hear your child talk about Grandma. Grandma Anita is helping us every morning for a couple of hours. The students will be reading their sight words and books to her, and she will help them during centers. She also helps me with some cutting and glueing projects. We love having her in our class.

We won't be starting official homework until after SEPs, so just make sure you are reading with your children every night for at least 20 minutes. This means that you can read to them, help them to read, and have them read to you. This is the year that they will make big jumps in their reading ability, but I know that they will make even bigger jumps with help at home as well as at school. I also know that your children will love that time with you. I can still remember how it felt to have my mother read to me at night. It is treasured time!

This week we are back to full days. Please make sure that your child is getting plenty of sleep at night. These full days are going to wear them out! They will start going to specialties (P.E., music, library) on Monday. I know they are excited about that because they keep asking me when P.E. starts every day this past week.

I am loving your children already. They are so full of energy and ready to learn!!!

Buzz into First Grade!!!

Welcome to my first grade class. I'm excited for this new school year. We are going to do some fun and exciting things this year while we focus on reading, math, writing, social studies, science, and art. I'm looking forward to seeing all that each one of you will bring to the classroom.

If you haven't noticed yet, my classroom theme is bees and bugs. This is because my first name actually means honeybee. Bugs are also very hard workers. Have you ever seen how hard bees work to collect pollen and make honey. They are always very busy at work.

Ants also work hard together to form their anthills and create a great home for their colony. This is how I expect our class to be. We are all going to work hard together to learn and to create a great class colony. Each of you are an important part of our colony. We are going to learn so much from each other this year