100 Sight Words

The new challenge in our class is to read all 100 1st grade sight words in 1 minute. Students are graphing their progress in achieving this goal every week. Those who reach the goal get to choose an animal puzzle to take home and keep.

Keep practicing your sight words! :)

Family Fun!

We learned about families last week and guess what? We are learning more about families this week! 1st graders, can you sing our song about families to your family? Remember, it starts out "Oh a family is people and a family is love, that's a family..." Here are some sentences our class wrote about families:

All of the students are writing stories right now about princesses, sword fighters, ninjas, dinosaurs, or fairies. I love reading them! We definitely have some future authors in this class! Parents, you should be really excited to read these stories-they're amazing!

Welcome Back to School!

Thank you to all of the parents and students who came to the open house last Thursday! It was so fun to get to know all of you a little bit better. I hope you enjoyed visiting our classroom.

We learned about shadows last week. Here's a fun activity: Get a flashlight and try to make shadow animals with your hands. Can you make a duck, a bird, a rabbit? How about a crocodile?

We'll be learning about families this week. Each family is different in their own special way, but every family is important.

Here is a picture of my family: