Merry Christmas!

Pajamas, shaving cream and cookies...What else do we need? :)

I hope you and your families have a wonderful Christmas! Thank you for all your support! I truly have enjoyed having your child in my class and LOVE coming to work everyday! I am so blessed and hope you know that your first grader holds a special place in my heart!

Merry Christmas and will see you all next year!!

Love Mrs. Farnes

Last School Week of 2012!

Hello First Grade Families,

Happy Holidays!

On Friday, December 21^st

our First graders will celebrate by having a Pajama Day.  Please send your child to school in their favorite P.J.’s.  Please consider they will have to go outside for recess, so dress them accordingly. 

Please NO SHORTS, SPEGHETTI STRAPS OR SLIPPERS! 

We will also be watching the Polar Express in the afternoon! 

Hope everyone has a wonderful week and we are looking forward to celebrating with your first grader! J

Christmas Program

What a wonderful program! Thank you for all those who came and watched! A very special thank you to Mrs. Griggs for all her hard work and planning! Happy Holidays!

Life in the Forest

This week we will be reading Life in the Forest.
                                           
                                               Learning Targets:

- I can read long u words.

- I can read words with the inflected ending -ed.

High Frequency Words:

around, under, food, water, find, grow

Spelling Words:

1. huge
2. June
3. rule
4. tube
5. use
6. cube
7. cute
8. flute
9. rude
10. mule
11. water
12. under

The Big Cirlce

Hope everyone had a wonderful break! I can hardly believe it is the last week of November!

This week we will be reading The Big Cirlce.

                                                         Learning Targets:

• I can read long o words.
• I can read and sort contractions n't, 'll, 'm.

High Frequency Words:

• inside
• down
• together
• now
• there

Spelling Words

1. home
2. hope
3. rose
4. woke
5. those
6. bone
7. hose
8. joke
9. rode
10. stone
11. there
12. together

Gobble, Gobble!

Wishing you and your families a very Happy Thanksgiving!  I am so thankful for all of your support and feel so blessed to have your "little turkey's" in my class!

Hope you have a wonderful break!  Love, Mrs. Farnes!

Sound and Sort!

Today we practiced sorting words with wh, ch, sh, and th.

First we practiced together sorting pictures on the board.

Then students went back to their desks and began cutting and sorting. 

What hard workers I have in my class!

  

 

 

Some of our finished projects!

Election Day!

And the winner is..... DUCK for PRESIDENT!!

WE VOTED!! Today, first graders went to the polls and voted for their favorite canidate...

                    

DUCK                         GRACE                                TEACHER

After reading each story, the votes are in and DUCK WON!

Students filled out Voter Registration Cards

 Waited in Line...

  Placed their vote.

 And even got an "I VOTED" pin.

Farmer in the Hat

This week we are reading Farmer in the Hat.

              Learning Targets:

                                                                     

                - I can read words with long a.

                - I can read words with c/s/ and g/j/.

              High Frequency Words:

                                                                   

           old, paper, be, horse, could

Spelling Words:

1. face
2. made
3. age
4. safe
5. take
6. make
7. cage
8. cake
9. late
10. name
11. could
12. old

 

Happy Halloween!

Hope everyone has a great night of Trick-or- Treating! Please be safe!  Thank you families for coming to our parade today and a big thank to those who helped with our party!

What a great afternoon!

Animal Park

This week week we are reading Animal Park.

 LEARNING TARGETS:

• I can read short u words.
• I can read words with final blends.

 

Spelling Words:

1. run
2. cut
3. must
4. sun
5. up
6. bump
7. jump
8. bus
9. nut
10. rug
11. many
12. into

Short Week

Hello families!

Hope you all had a fabulous weekend! What beautiful fall days we are having!

Another reminder that we do not have school Thursday or Friday because of MEA conferencs.

Due to a short week this week, we will be reviewing and will not move on in Reading Street.  There will also not be a spelling test this week! Along with reviewing, we will be doing a mini pumpkin unit!!

Have a great week! 

Reminders!!

• Picture Day is Wednesday, October 10th
• Fundraiser packets are due back Thursday, October 11th.  The last day for penguins will be Tuesday!
• Mrs. Nokelby kick off to GET A CLUE will begin this week! More information to come Wednesday!
• Next week is a short week due to MEA conferences.  There will be NO SCHOOL next Thursday or Friday, October 18th and 19th.

What a turn in the weather! Fall is here with force! Hope everyone has a great week! 

King of ING

This week one of our learning targets is:

        I can read and write words that end with -ing.

Today students became Kings of ING and made crowns and wrote words that end with -ing.

We started the morning with a funny little video to introduce -ing.

 

We then made our crowns and wrote many different "-ing" words. 

They were then asked to be word dectectives and find "-ing" words in books.  They were engaged all morning and made me smile how cute they were!  We had a great day!

Mrs. Farnes's KINGS OF INGS

The Daily 5

The Daily 5 is a series of literacy tasks which students complete daily while the teacher pulls small reading groups.  The Daily 5 is a structure that will help students develop the daily habits of reading, writing and working with peers.

Here are some of our friends working at their Daily 5 Center...

WORD WORK

READ TO SOMEONE

LISTEN TO READING

READ TO SELF

WORK ON WRITING