New Years Resolution

Have you given any thought to your New Years Resolution? How about your first grader? Have you thought about talking to your child about what a New Year Resolution is?
Our first writing assignment will be what our New Year Resolution is? Please take a few moments and talk to your child what a good goal will be to kick the new year off! Goal setting will be the topic this year! Have fun!

Before Christmas Break

Monday December 17, 2012-1:30

 Decorating Gingerbread Houses
Volunteers Welcome

Wednesday Dec. 19, 2012 9:30 

Breakfast and Yankee Swap

Thursday December 20, 2012 
Game Day

Friday December 21, 2012 PJ Day and Polar Express
(We will be doing activities with the other first grade classrooms.)

Books Books Books

How many of us love love love books? 

When you hear the word books- what does your mind picture?

Are you a reader? Don't answer yet. 

On an average day how much do you read? Don't answer this one yet either.

Do you read books, novels, or (in 1st grade language) "Chapter Books? How Much?

Do you read texts, an email, all the forwards your friends forward

Do you scroll through status updates (that's reading).

We are all readers in our own way.

We all have out nitch in something.  Right now why don't we help our child find their nitch in reading and read with your child every night

Share these reading moments with your kids but teach them how to read with a variety of reading material.  

We have a varitiy now we just have to find our kids varsities.

I have 

Skinny Books

Fat Books

Wide Books

Long Books

Short Books

Books with no words

Books with very little words

Books with very big words

Books with 

Books about Animals

Books about Bears

Books about Carrots

Books about Dinosaurs

Books about Elephants ( I think)

Books about Fish, Fly Guy, Frogs and Toads

Books about Golden Tickets

Books about Halloween and other Holidays

Books with iguanna's and igloos

Books about Jets ummmmm I know there has to be another j

Books about K

Books about Lyle Lyle Crocodile

Books about Mrs. Smith

Books about Napping

Books about the Ocean

Books about Pets and books that have poetry

Books about Quarters and other money

Books about Rabbits and a Holiday with Rabbits

Books about Snakes, yuck, Santa Clause, 

Books about Time,

Books about animals Underground.

Books about Valentines Day

Books about Whales, and how Words are spelled

Books about Xan wait who's Xan

Books about yellow things

Books about Zebras and a book named Zec

Book Cart Books

Book Cart Books are due back every Tuesday.

Book cart books are Just Right Reading Level Books that are chosen by your child and brought home to read for 1 week.

Each Tuesday a parent volunteer comes in and spends about 2 hours selecting students to come and self-select just right books.  These books are your childs reading level.  These books should be a little hard at first for your child but after reading the book 3 times or more then your child should breeze through the book.

Needless to say reading a book over and over again is great practice for your child.

Your child can read these books to their pets, to you, to grandparents, friends who come over.  This is a great opportunity to show off your child's reading ability!

Please take the time to read these books a few times with your child.  Return these books by Tuesday and your child will select another set!  If your finding they are to hard please let me know!

What is a QR Code?

What is a QR Code and how can it be used in my classroom?

A QR code is a Quick Response to anything that I would like.

All I need is a smart phone
A downloaded app that can scan QR Codes.
Access to the internet.


I would like to use a QR code in my classroom so we can...

1. Show off our reading ability.
2. Show off our work.
3. Read a story that was written by us.
4. Give directions.
5. Give spelling tests.
6. Visit a website.
7. Instruct
8. Plan
9. Document
10. Have fun!