Happy Tuesday!  Please check out this you tube video.  It was made by some Hirsch students and has a powerful message!  If you would like to help, you can bring just one can (or more) to our classroom anytime this week or next.

http://youtu.be/rMnRZxCiPTw

April Calendar Writing Prompts

Happy Spring Break!  I hope you enjoy your special time with your first grader.  I am off to New Jersey with my girls.  We are visiting my sister and her family.  Her is the calendar for April if your child would like to get a head start on the writing prompts.  I am now paying one penny for completing this part of the homework assignment.  Of course it needs to be done correctly.  Minimum 2 different selections per week.  Each writing needs to have a minimum of 5 sentences.  Please encourage your child to use words from the word bank.  As always, thanks for your support.  See you all on April 8th!

Spell-a-Thon

Thank you so much for your generous contributions to our spell-a-thon.  If you have already returned your donations, thank you.  If you are still collecting, please send in your monies as soon as possible.  I have recently purchased class sets of new crayons, dry-erase markers correcting pencils, writing pencils and other much needed classroom supplies and your donations have helped pay for these items.

February calendar prompts

February calendar prompts.  I will be sending home hard copy with homework packets on Monday but here is a preview.

Happy Super Bowl Sunday!

Homework folder

Please check your child's homework folder for some important information that went home today.
I hope you all have a safe and wonderful weekend with your fabulous first grader!

January writing calendar

A few have asked, so here is the calendar for January writing prompts.  Sorry it is sideways :)

3 selections are due tomorrow.

Good Luck!

New app

Check out this app if you have an iPod, iPad, iPhone, etc..., in the App Store, letter school.  I am going to try to find time in class for select students to work on their penmanship with this app.  Thought you'd like to try it at home.  I haven't tried to google play store but maybe they haven't something similar for the android users.

Thank you

Thank you so much to all the parents who took the time to come by the workshop tonight.  I hope you left with some new ways to help your child with his school work.

Fluency folders (purple) go home every night Monday thru Thursday.  Students should read for one minute mark where they stop then continue until the end of the passage.  Subtract errors from total word count to get words read per minute.  The comprehension questions should be answered at home each night as well.  Your child may choose to work ahead if he/she would like.