April 28-29

 Take a look at our  amazing incredible math facts for the daily date.  Several students are learning to turn repeated addition facts into multiplication.  

During work on writing the students are journaling  about their favorite meals.  They are labeling the food items and placing them into the food groups.  

 Kayden Kincaid is now 7 years old.  His family joined him on his special day.

He shared cupcakes with the entire class.  Happy Birthday to Kayden.  

 The students are learning to handle all the daily routines.  Here are the attendance clerks for the next two weeks.

 Don't forget that we have some special activities planned on  Friday at 1:30.  Students should wear tennis shoes.  They may also wear a Derby Hat. Please contact Ms. Tipton is you are available to assist, or if you just want to  come and join in the fun.

 Today we reviewed prepositions.  Each day we are revisiting some of our past skills. We are preparing for MAP testing next week.

 The Cardinals are reading this book and learning about the value of coins at the same time.  

 We know all the coin combinations to make 25 cents.

 Prisalla was the reader for Tuesday, April 28.   She entertained her audience as she read with expression.  Nice job Prisalla!

 Nicholas was the reader on Wednesday.  Not only did he do a nice job capturing the the audiance's attention, but his book had a unique ending.  Ask your child to tell you about how the Hamster won the race.

 Student's are being assessed daily on their individual oral reading levels.  We want to congratulate Leslie for now reading at a level 22.  20 is the goal for all first graders.   If your child already reached a level 20 or above on the Winter assessment they will not be tested again.  Everyone will take the MAP reading and math assessments.

 The Wildcats started a new chapter book today.

 We competing against partners, while advancing our math skills.  Every student is paired with a peer that is functioning on about the same developmental level in math.   Each student has a chance to earn points for their team.  

 Other team members have an opportunity to "teach" their teammates.   Students are able to explain the correct strategies to each other.  

 Everyone is working the given problems in their seats too.   It's an exciting way to practice our new 2 and 3 digit addition skills.

April 27

Change over time

 Look at the plant experiment and ask your child to explain the changes that took place.

 Cameron Davenport was the reader of the day.     Congratulation to him on his overall reading progress!

 We are watching the super worms and noting changes over time.

 Sand is not the best soil to use when planting.  Ask your child to explain what they learned about sand.

 Several students took the numbers to 40 retest.  Their new score will replace the past score.   Everyone improved tremendously.

 The square math club is working hard on 3 digit addition and subtraction.

 The wildcat reading club is about to finish up another chapter book.  

 Remember to ask you child about their weekly homework.   Every student is working on reading fluency and comprehension.   Don't forget that all weekly homework is due by Friday.

 The lanugage skill for the week is verbs.  Past, present and future tense verbs.

 Here are the worksheets for the two leveled math home work sheets.

This will be the last week for homework.  We will not have weekly homework in May!  

April 23-24/ Next Week's Phonic lessons

Phonics Lesson for the week of April 27-May 1

"ar"

car,start, farm, yard, market, large,park, party, star, arm, above, against

Bonus words:  marvelous, sharpened , 

 Only two students followed all the Hearn rules for the week.  We want to congratulate Prisalla Dunn, and Maddox Rose for their excellent work habits.  They are truly great role models for all students to follow.  They received a special treat.  Way to go!!!  

 We are learning how to eat proper amounts of each food group, and how to classify food into the proper food groups.

 Students worked in teams to place food items in their correct categories.  

 Today was a busy day and the students used the ipad all day long to practice various language arts and math skills.    Ms. Tipton worked with individual students on various skills.  She also assessed each student using the following rubric.  
The students each retold the story Golidlocks and the other Three Bears to Ms. Tipton.    Every child has shown  growth in their student  reading goal.  Students need to be able to identify the characters,  setting and the central message (main idea) a story.  

 Today was share day.  Students are working on taking turn, communicating in an appropriate tone/voice level, and how to ask a good question.

 Stop by our hall and view the new adjective display.

We had two fabulous guest readers today.   Make sure and check the calendar for your child's date to read aloud to their peers.   This is a graded activity.  

Enjoy the weekend.