The week ahead!!

Below is the Newsletter to help preview the upcoming week!

Daily Five

"Daily 5 is a structure that helps students develop the daily habits of reading, writing, and working independently that will lead to a lifetime of literacy independence." -The Daily Café

This week the students practiced Read to Self! During Read to Self the students choose their own books, a spot to read, and independently read. We read Dex: The Heart of a Hero and the discussed STAMINA! The goal for the week was 4 minutes! They went beyond the goal to 5 minutes. For five minutes the students followed the expectations of staying in one spot, reading the whole time, keeping their eyes on their book, and demonstrating IPICK. The goal for the year is thirty-five minutes. We will celebrate each step!

 

 

 

IPICK is a strategy to help students choose a book!

 

 

Olly, Captain Capital, and Paul Period!

 

 

Olly is our short o friend!!!! He enjoys

lollipops and loves mopping just like

Ox in our story!

Sentences!! The students are learning how to make good sentences!
Captain Capital and Paul Period help the students
remember the important parts of a sentence!

 

 

 

 
 

 

Problem Solving!

The students are doing a great job transition into first grade. Thank you for all of the support and encouragement you give to your children daily. Your love gets them through the (sometimes) long days at school. This week the life skill is problem solving. We will be discussing ways to solve problems socially, emotionally, and academically. Below is chart I will introduce to the students. I will also read a few books that pertain to problem solving. We will discuss two a day and then review on Friday. A choice that is not on the chart but something the students can always do is Talk to an Adult!

The Week Ahead!

Hello First Grade Families,

Friday was a big day in our classroom!!! We enjoyed a Mystery Reader with Pete the Cat, celebrated a birthday, and Zero the Hero came. He brought everyone two chocolate chip cookies! It was a great energy-filled day.

This week in the classroom the students will be reading a great story about a BIG BLUE OX! The past few weeks the students have been learning about characters and this week we will focus on both character and setting.

In spelling we will continue learning about short vowels. Addie and Iggy have been a great help learning about short -a and short -i and a new friend will join our class to help us with short o!! In addition to our letter friends sentence friends will also join our classroom.

In math the students will be introduced to the ten frame. This is one of many, math strategies to help learn the basic math facts. This week we will use it for making ten.

It is going to be a great week!!!

The pig without the wig!

Mr. Puckett and I were taking a nice walk at Shelby Farms and look what we found!! We ran into an old friend and her pet pig, Penelope! I told her about our study of pigs this week and Pig in a Wig! 

 

Pig in a Wig!

The students had a full day!! 

Pack for Pig!!!

Realism and Fantasy!!! 

Jell-o Spell-o

Fabulous Friday!

Friday we enjoyed a great Family Gathering about Active Lisstening! We discussed in the classroom S.L.A.N.T. Ask your child is they can tell you each part!

 Friday we also had the privelage of Walter Butler's grandmother read to us!!

The Brain

The past few weeks our class has been studying the brain! We had the privilege of two guests from the University of Memphis visit our class and show us real brains. They were able to show us a mouse, rat, and pig brain! It was a great experience.

In addition to seeing brains! We also ate brains...Jell-O brains! The students enjoyed it!
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Zero the Hero!

Friday, August 11, our class celebrated the tenth day of school!!! Zero the Hero visited our school and brought us his biggest ZERO...DONUTS! These are some pictures of the students making their own Zero the Hero!

 

 

 

Campus Tiger Pride

Hello Families,

Last week the students finished learning about the respectful, responsible, and ready. We read Curious George Saves His Pennies for responsibility and Froggy Goes to School for ready. They did a wonderful job doing the promise during Family Gathering! One activity the students really enjoyed was the wrinkled heart. We read Chrysanthemum and every time someone was anger we crumpled up the heart. Then after the story we put Band-Aids with kind words on them and placed them on the heart. Hopefully, the students were able to understand how impactful our words are.

(This is not ours but its similar)

This week we will continue going through procedures and routines. We will also discuss CAMPUS TIGER PRIDE, Campus School's life skills. Our life skills are the backbone of the expectations for behavior. Each Family Gathering a class will do a presentation demonstrating the life skills. This week is the "C" for cooperation. All week we will discuss the meaning of cooperation and how to display it in the classroom.

It is going to be a great week!