Welcome back to all my 1st grade families and welcome to our class to my new 1st grade and Kindergarten families!
We have had such a busy first 7 days!! They have flown by so it is hard to believe we’ve already been in school for a whole week and are going into our 2nd full week!
We have a wonderfully sweet class of kinders and firsties this year, 22 all together and we have all had a great time getting to know one another. Ask your child about who they sit next to during the day and who they are playing with at recess. A big thanks to my first graders who are working so hard to be great role models to our new Kindergarten students.
The first weeks are filled with teaching and practicing routines so that we can get deep into learning.
Our class is so great that we got to try our hand at cooking on the 2nd day! We had been doing activities with Chicka Chicka Boom Boom so we made our very own coconut trees.
The kids at my cooking table did a wonderful job following directions to make their trees and the kids working in their bubble spots were working so hard and quiet that everyone got a chance to cook before recess.
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| A finished coconut tree |
We also made coconut trees with painted handprints, traced (and cut) feet and sticky-note letters. It is a testament to what a wonderful group I have that we were able to paint, cut, AND glue on the 2nd day of school!
The kids have also been introduced to the math manipulatives that we will be using throughout the year for the kids to be able to learn all sorts of different math concepts.
I forgot to take pictures but they have also started working in their math journals. Each child writes the date at the top and draws a picture of what they did during math time. The first grade students write words to go with pictures and our kinders will be starting with labels and move into sentences as the year goes on.
The kids have started practicing in their bubble spots with their browsing bags. The browsing bags are bags that each child has where they keep books to read during Daily 5 or when we have some down-time during the day.
It is precious to watch the kids reading all over the room.
The kids worked to create their thumb-print plate to be auctioned off at the school carnival. Come on August 26th for the big reveal!
We also got to cook again this Friday and made school buses out of graham crackers, cream cheese, chex and oreos. This week the kids worked with their table groups and had to share the supplies in the middle. They did a wonderful job working in groups and making sure that everyone had enough supplies for their snack
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Looking forward to a wonderful 2011-2012 school year!!
Love,
Mrs. Cox
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