August 30th

 

No School Monday September 2nd.  Enjoy your family time. 

 

Spelling words for next week:  

List One:   cat, fat, pan, ran, rat, have, but, have

 

List two: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

 

 

 

Ms. Prather is our first grade para.  She helps us in a variety of ways, and we appreciate all her help.

We use our "offices" to help define personal space during all assessments.

Ms. Stewart is helping a table during writer's workshop.

 Ms. Verba stopped by to help students with the writing process too. 

 

Ms. Roe was also a big help with writer's workshop. 

 We are learning the Daily Five routine.  Today we worked on Read to Someone.  The students all enjoyed the opportunity to buddy read. 

Mimi and Ms. Tipton were buddies today. 

Special Notice:
Don't forget that next Thursday Sept. 5th at 5:30 is First Grade Curriculum night. 

Bucket Fillers

 

 

We read a book about how to fill someone elses bucket.  Either with kind words or actions.  Starting tomorrow the students will begin filling each other's buckets.  Ask you child what this means.  

 We now have centers available for students that have completed work and need a little extra to fill their time.  The centers will all be extensions of our core content.

 In math we started working with number bonds.  The students will be using this skill for the rest of the week.

 Today's special classes were P.E and Music.  Ms. Ray wants to remind all families to have their child wear tennis shoes on P.E. days.  

Lock Down Drill Today

Today we had a practice Lock Drill Drill. Our class did a fabulous job staying safe and quiet.  As a reward we had cream pops. Thank you  to Mimi's family for providing the treat.

 

 

  Ms. Rhau helped us all day today in the classroom.  Thanks for all the extra hands today.  She helped us in so many different ways. 

 We started reading books in small groups today.   Ask your child what story they read. 

  Today we started math centers. Ask your child to explain what they did in each station.

 Mrs. Rogers stopped by for our first guidance lesson.   We learned about what bullying.. 

Monday Library

Please Email Ms. Tipton is you are interested in being the home room parent.  We have several families that will assist you in planning the two class parties this year.  Thanks in advance for considering helping us in this way. 

 

 

 

Ms. Blankenship taught us how to take care of books properly.  We have library every Monday.  The students are allowed to check out 2 new books each week.  Please return book every Monday. 

   
                       Brody's grandmother stopped by today.  Thank you for helping in the classroom.  Ask your child what Ms. Sue did with each one of them today. 

    We learned how to play a math center game called Greater Than and Less Than Dice

                       We will begin using the math balances tomorrow.   

Team Tipton 2013-14 class picture

 A huge thank you to Ms. Stewart and Ms Ryann for helping out in the classroom this week. 

 Sydney won Beat the Teacher short "a" word activity.   She made 21 short "a" words in 4 minutes. 

  Alligator headband acitivity

These students whispered the code word Alligator in my ear after thier familes viewed the blog site.



Alligator Math (Greater than, Less Than)  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5bEcjYBepU

 

  

Math Centers for Alligator Chomp

 



The students wrote in their journals about thier new classroom friends.  The following are pictures of the child and the student that they wrote about in thier journal. 

Breanna and Ying Ying are friends because Ying Ying is nice.   They sit beside each other in class.

Adam and Ethan are new friends now.  They enjoy playing outside and reading together.

 Brody and Connor are new friends:" we like each other and we play together on the playground."

 Eber and Connor are friends:" we play football."

Linc and Connor are friends because" we call each other "cheese" and talk alot.  "

Delk and Nicholas are friends beacuse," we play on the playground."

 

  Adam and Jake are good friends because "we like to play together. "

 Jake and Parker are friends because" we started the year sitting beside each other.  "

 Maya and Breanna are friends because they like to swing together.

 Mimi and Anna are great friends because Anna is nice to Mimi.  Anna said," Mimi is a good friend becasue she plays with me on the playground. "

  Parker and Ethan are good friends and now they are going to have a playdate soon.

 

Sydney and Abby are friends because they both like to sing and play on the monkeybars together. 

Zoey and Jenny are great friends because they like to swing together and play games.