Hi Families,
Classroom Needs: Thank you for all of the donations! As always, prize box items are always greatly appreciated.
Language Arts: We will continue to work with the Houghton Mifflin story Two Greedy Bears. This story will give us examples of making predictions, inferring and giving an opinion.
Phonograms: We have learned all the phonograms for first grade. You children are working hard to find them in the words they read and help them read at a higher level.
Word Wall Words:All first grade word wall words on the board! Please help your children learn to spell them as easily as they read them.
Writers' Workshop: We continue to work on our opinion writing unit. We are using the acronym OREO to help us remember the structure of a good opinion piece. We have also started a Poetry Unit and have begun writing our own Acrostic Poems about Spring.
Math: We are working on addition with double digits, counting and adding coins up to $1.00, writing numbers 1-120, and telling time to the hour and half hour.
Important Dates:
Jog a thon: Friday, April 28th
Open House: Thursday, May 4th
Field Trip: Thursday, May 11th
End of Year Party: Wednesday, June 7 (More details to come soon...)
Thursday, April 27, 2017
Thursday, April 13, 2017
Hi Families,
Classroom Needs: Thank you for all of the classroom donations. We appreciate it! We are good on paper towels, tissues, markers, and highlighters. Prize box items and desks wipes are always in need.
Spring Garden: A special thank you to Maya's family for donating vegetables and flowers to our classroom garden. Also, thank you to Haley, Indy's mom, and Cindy, Henry's grandma for helping the kids to get it planted! We look forward to watching it grow.
Open House: I look forward to seeing you on May 4th from 6:30-7:30.
Field Trip: We will be going to Jacob's Heart on May 11th from 9:00-11:00. Jacob's Heart is an organization that improves the quality of life for children with cancer. Permission slips were sent home today. If you would like to drive and chaperone, please make sure your paperwork is up to date in the school office and let me know by text or email if you are available. Please remember to send your child to school on the field trip day with his/her booster seat. Any drivers that have extra booster seats please bring them in your car.
Lexia Reading Core 5 Program: It is very helpful for you child to work in this program each day at home. This is a self directed program that helps your child with reading and spelling skills. Your child will need a head set to listen to the directions and complete it without any help as they do here at school. I receive a report as to the progress the children are making at with the program at home. I highly recommend it! To access it follow these 4 steps..
1. google lexia core 5
2 go to...
4 scroll down to Core5
5 put in my email lea_robinson@pvusd.net (if needed)
4. your child will type in his/her username and password from the card provided
Moby Max
Language Arts: We will continue to work with the Houghton Mifflin story When I am Old With You Granddaddy which helps us note details and use contractions.
Phonograms: We have learned all the phonograms for first grade. You children are working hard to find them in the words they read and help them read at a higher level.
Word Wall Words: We just put the LAST 5 word wall words on the board! Now we have all the word wall words for first grade. Please help your children learn to spell them as easily as they read them.
as and a at are an am all after about be by big because but been can come could called did do down each every friend for from favorite first find go get girl he his has her him have had here how house in I it if is just know like little look long may me more most many made may make no not nice now our of one other over on old out only or play out people please really so see she said some school saw the there this they to these them time that too two then up under very want water who what we was way with when were went why where will would you yes your
Writers' Workshop: We have started our new opinion writing unit. We are using the acronym OREO to help us remember the structure of a good opinion piece.
Grammar: We will work on working on using the correct punctuation for all our sentences.
Math: We are working in Unit 7 which focuses on understanding place value within the range of 1-120, representing numbers using groups of 1s, 10s and 100, using models, sketches and numbers to add and subtract up to 120 and counting forward and backward by 1s, 2s, 5s, and 10s on a number line.
Classroom Needs: Thank you for all of the classroom donations. We appreciate it! We are good on paper towels, tissues, markers, and highlighters. Prize box items and desks wipes are always in need.
Spring Garden: A special thank you to Maya's family for donating vegetables and flowers to our classroom garden. Also, thank you to Haley, Indy's mom, and Cindy, Henry's grandma for helping the kids to get it planted! We look forward to watching it grow.
Open House: I look forward to seeing you on May 4th from 6:30-7:30.
Field Trip: We will be going to Jacob's Heart on May 11th from 9:00-11:00. Jacob's Heart is an organization that improves the quality of life for children with cancer. Permission slips were sent home today. If you would like to drive and chaperone, please make sure your paperwork is up to date in the school office and let me know by text or email if you are available. Please remember to send your child to school on the field trip day with his/her booster seat. Any drivers that have extra booster seats please bring them in your car.
Lexia Reading Core 5 Program: It is very helpful for you child to work in this program each day at home. This is a self directed program that helps your child with reading and spelling skills. Your child will need a head set to listen to the directions and complete it without any help as they do here at school. I receive a report as to the progress the children are making at with the program at home. I highly recommend it! To access it follow these 4 steps..
1. google lexia core 5
2 go to...
www.lexialearning.com/products/core5
3. go to "sign in" at the top right4 scroll down to Core5
5 put in my email lea_robinson@pvusd.net (if needed)
4. your child will type in his/her username and password from the card provided
Moby Max
MobyMax is a computer based program and just like the Lexia Reading Core 5 Program, this is a self directed program that helps your child with academic skills at home. Your child will need a head set and then will be able to work in the program without any help. I receive a progress report just like the Core 5 Program. Your child will be working in the "math and fact fluency" section. Each student has a unique login. Follow these steps:
1. go to www.mobymax.com
2. fill in school name... rio del mar
3. click "sign in"
4. click "as a student"
5. user name is your child's first name all lower case letters
6. password is your child's first name all lower case letters
Phonograms: We have learned all the phonograms for first grade. You children are working hard to find them in the words they read and help them read at a higher level.
Word Wall Words: We just put the LAST 5 word wall words on the board! Now we have all the word wall words for first grade. Please help your children learn to spell them as easily as they read them.
as and a at are an am all after about be by big because but been can come could called did do down each every friend for from favorite first find go get girl he his has her him have had here how house in I it if is just know like little look long may me more most many made may make no not nice now our of one other over on old out only or play out people please really so see she said some school saw the there this they to these them time that too two then up under very want water who what we was way with when were went why where will would you yes your
Writers' Workshop: We have started our new opinion writing unit. We are using the acronym OREO to help us remember the structure of a good opinion piece.
Grammar: We will work on working on using the correct punctuation for all our sentences.
Math: We are working in Unit 7 which focuses on understanding place value within the range of 1-120, representing numbers using groups of 1s, 10s and 100, using models, sketches and numbers to add and subtract up to 120 and counting forward and backward by 1s, 2s, 5s, and 10s on a number line.
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