All students have now taken the first quiz! We need to read Chapters 5-8 and take the second quiz before next Friday! We read the first three chapters together and the class is really enjoying the book so far! I remember one of my teachers reading The Trumpet of the Swans to us when I was in school.
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I hope that everyone has had the chance to start reading The Trumpet of the Swan. Every Friday, a short quiz will be posted to the Willard East Blog. You can click {here} to find it!. Our goal is to have AT LEAST 75% of our class correctly answer the weekly quiz questions. There are various awards that we can will for participating. Mark your calendars now for the conclusion of our challege! Family Reading Night will take place on Tuesday, March 5th! This week we learned SO much about penguins! We started off the week making the K portion of our KWL chart. The K stands for what we already KNOW. On Tuesday we filled out the W portion of the chart. The W is what we WANT to know. All week we studied penguins (and enjoyed some penguin fiction, too) before filling out the L portion of our chart. This allowed us to share all that we had LEARNED this week. We had so much fun learning about these adorable birds! Ask your student to share some interesting penguin information with you this weekend! Mrs. Whisler helped us make our adorable penguin KWL chart and as you can see, we learned A LOT! If I Lived In A Snow Globe...This was an adorable project that Mrs. Whisler found on Pinterest. Students were asked to write what they would do if they lived in a snow globe. These turned out SO cute and will be spending some time in our hallway before coming home! Comparing Fiction and Non-Fiction TextsOur penguin unit was a great way for us to spend some time looking at both fiction and non-fiction text and a variety of text features. Mrs. Whisler made this web with the students after reading several books together. We have spent a lot of time reading non-fiction books this year and I couldn't be more proud of how much growth the students have made this year. Some of the things they know and recognize are pretty impressive! Weekly News and UpdatesSPELLING or, for, more, store, porch VALENTINE’S DAY A class list and a separate note came home about the Valentine’s Day party. We will be eating pizza for lunch on the 14th. We are asking for a $3.00 donation to cover the cost of the pizza. Your child will not need a school or home lunch for this day. Please send your child’s money by Wednesday, February 6th. ROCKETMATH HOMEWORK I am sending home a RocketMath packet with each student. All first graders need to be able to pass the Level L test by the end of the year. I know that several students will be far past that point and that is WONDERFUL! I am sending home one copy of each test for levels F-L. Please work on these addition skills with your child verbally. In first grade, students get 3 minutes to practice orally reciting the equations around the outside and two minutes to complete the problems inside the box. Keep in mind every child has his or her own goal and your child should know their goal. They only have to correctly answer that many equations. You do not need to send anything back to school, I only ask that your child practice (beginning at his or her current level) for the next couple of weeks. HELPER SCHEDULE Mon– Elija Tues– Elliot Wed.– Emerie Thurs.– Hayden Friday-Hope Next Friday is Tiger Pride (at 2:30) and Rockstar day for Costumes for Community Service! 100 Days Smarter!Can you believe that we have already been in school 100 days? This year is flying by! Here is a taste of some 100 year old fun from today. If you are on Facebook you should check out East's page to see some more pictures from the day! Here is a link to our class list in case your child needs one to make his or Valentine's Day cards.
This week just flew by so quickly. Time flies when you are having fun, right?!?! SPELLING WORDS very, dirty, funny, cry, by, sky MRS. KRAMER ABSENT I will be at a Common Core training all day on Wednesday. Mrs. Whisler will be at school and Mrs. Lisa will be in our room, too! Please call the office if your child will be going home a different way than he or she usually does. 100th DAY OF SCHOOL Next Friday is the 100th day of school and we will celebrate in style! Students (and teachers!) are invited to dress like they are 100 years old. Last year the teachers did this and it was so much fun—so this year we would like to extend the invitation to the students! I have already been checking out a lot of ideas on Pinterest! VALENTINE’S DAY A class list will come home next week so your child can write Valentine cards to their classmates. Each student will need a box or bag to put his or her cards in. We will exchange cards before the party (more details to come soon) on February 14th. Ask your child about… friendship, measuring, changing his or her writing goal, working with Mrs. Whisler, and Martin Luther King, Jr. NO SCHOOL MONDAY
Just a reminder, there will be no school for students on Monday. All of the teachers in the district will be in meetings on this day. SPELLING girl, dirt, first, shirt, hurt, hurting YEARBOOKS Don’t forget 2012-2013 Yearbooks are on sale for the cheapest price of the year! The purchase price of $15 has been extended but hurry so you don’t miss this deal! Please DO NOT send cash to school with your student. You can order online at: http://www.jostens.com/yearbooks/ybk_lp_main.html Ask your child about… measuring objects using tiles & cubes, temporal words, our acrostic winter poems, Jan Brett books, how to build a snowman, and welcoming Mrs. Whisler to our classroom! 100th Day of School Last year the teachers thought it would be fun to dress like we were 100 years old for the 100th day. This year the students are invited to join us. Assuming we don’t have any snowdays, the 100th day will be on Friday, January 25th. HELPER SCHEDULE Mon– No School Tues– Michael Wed.– Rhett Thurs.– Samantha Fri.– Tucker UPCOMING EVENTS Jan 14: No School for students Jan 25: 100th Day of School! Dress like you are 100 years old! Feb 8th: Costumes for Community: Rockstar Day! Hello everyone! This is Mrs. Holly Whisler writing, the newest addition to Mrs. Kramer's first grade class. As Mrs. Kramer said in an earlier post, I will be student teaching in your student's classroom for the rest of the year! I have absolutely loved getting to know your children this week and I am very excited to spend the rest of the semester with them. They, along with Mrs. Kramer, are going to make student teaching a wonderful experience! A few things about me... I grew up in Willard and went to school here from Kindergarten through 12th grade! In 2010 I got married and my husband (also a Willard graduate) and I live in Willard. Shortly after getting married I started coaching the Willard High School cheerleading squad, so you might see me if you go to a basketball or football game! We do not have children yet, but we do have one dog named Sledge and a cat named Dragon. I love having family game nights and eating tacos! I'm excited to have the opporturnity to meet all of you! |
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