What a great month in 1st Grade.  The students have worked this week on creating their own Time Line to tell about their lives!  Word of the Week is ... Biography!  We have read biographies of several presidents and noted what we learned on posters!  Students will be picking a favorite Famous American and presenting what they learned next week! 

The love letters were a "hit" as always.  Lots of love and smiles as those letters were read.  Students annotated a valentine poem in Writing Center!  

Thanks for all the support for the party on Friday!  Totals for the Grade Level for building a well were a little over $200.00.  Our class raised over $100.00.  Great learning and great project!  Thanks again for all you do!

WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE!  

We have been so busy with our Water PBL!  The students have been taking notes on information texts about water and reading Weekly Readers to get an idea of how they want to create their own Weekly Readers!  I can't wait for you to see the finished projects!    Students have been problem solving with water graphs in math class!  Lots of "thought provoking" questions for students to answer.  Great job problem solving.  We have learned that many places around the world are without clean water.  How do they clean water?  We created a water filter!  The students had fun collecting dirty water and watching it cleaned! We will be finishing up our Weekly Readers by including our math graphs and counting our money to go towards building a well.
Thanks so much with your help in making our learning fun!!

Lastly,  Students get an extra 10 minutes of Recess outside during snack time if they keep their snowbucks!  Encourage good listening during this 3rd 9 Weeks!  We partner with another class.  Some go out and some stay in and have their snacks.  It IS working, especially for our boys who LOVE to go outside! 

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Welcome 2015!

Welcome Back!  We are in "full swing" and we are working on "listening closely" .  This helps with attention and being careful in all areas and all subjects!  ( Just so you know...in case your child talks about it! )

We have started our "Water Water Everywhere and Not Enough to Drink" Unit.  Students will be creating Weekly Readers in Groups of 3.  We have been learning ways to take "quick notes" and hold important information in our little brains when listening to nonfiction texts about water!  My favorite part is our culminating project where students will drink water instead of a soft drink when eating out with families and bring that money to school to help build a well in an underdevleloped country.  You can find more information at TheWaterProject.org.    Our financial contributions will be added to other contributions and we will get feedback when the well is built with photos!!!  The kids loved this last year! 

Spelling homework is a change for January and we are now working on subtraction fast facts!  Thanks for your help in making our learning meaningful and fun!  Hoping to see some snow soon! :)

Reindeer Week...

What another great and busy week in 1st Grade!  The students researched reindeer all week!  We read books, we went to the Computer Lab and looked at a Blend Space about reindeer, and made reindeer recipe for Christmas Eve night!  Can't wait for you to see the books they made!  This will be a reading grade because students used the text given to them and charts around the room for spelling and writing sentences!  I gave them reindeer photos to put in books!  They chose what to use!  this was an "in class" project grade.

Hour of code was the "nation's talk" this week. Students learned about what coding means and worked in partners to create a code and act out being robots and performing the codes!  Lots of fun!

Lastly,  you are so blessed...we remembered students in Greenville Hospital and made cards to send to them along with a book from our Guidance Teacher, Mrs. Robertson.  This was her idea and a great one for a project! Be thankful for these wonderful kids of yours!! :)

Thanks for all you do to support our learning!  You are greatly appreciated!

December has arrived in full swing...

We have had another busy week in 1st Grade as we are swinging into the holidays!  We found a great fireplace with Christmas music on UTube so we sit in front of the fireplace and work like we are at home!  We finally reached 200 so we made a "Thank Heaven" poster with a sample of some of our angels above.  One highlight was Mrs.Shah's birthday this week as we prepare to say goodbye.  It has been a complete pleasure to have her intern with me.  She finishes up this Friday and we wish her all the best.  We have been working with 10s and leftovers in math so we spent a lot of time sorting objects into groups of tens and playing 10s and 1s games!  Ask your child what they learned!

Coming up...We encourage reading nightly and a form about Holiday Reading is coming home for those 2 weeks of vacation in December.  Students who complete some holiday reading will get a free ticket to 6 Flags in the Spring...  You are seeing more coming home regarding reading and responding to text for homework.  Sit down nightly and ensure your child comprehends and can read what is required.

If you haven't received any emails from the class, please email me at annette.hyder@spartanburg2.k12.sc.us
so I can get you on our mailing list!! :)

Thanks for volunteering to send items for our "special December days" .

Thanksgiving is Close...

Another great week in 1st Grade families!   We so enjoyed having lunch with our families and what a schoolwide turnout we had!  We finished our Book Drive and between all of 1st Grade, we collected over 500 books to give to our 4K Classes and Special Needs Pre-School Class.  We also shared with students who go to Morning Computer Lab as a gift for their hard work! 

Opinion/ Persuasive Writing was fun and students tried to decide if they wanted to play at my house or if I should come to their house...and why!   We will continue this writing into December as we prepare to write about why we would make a good elf for Santa! 

Lastly...

Happy Thanksgiving from the turkeys!  ;)

 

What a great week in 1st Grade.  We have been talking about Persuasive Writing and we are working on our "Book Drive" posters to convince other grades to join us in our efforts!  

 

We love to see our dads!  They were all so EAGER to have their pictures taken! ( HA!)   I think dads take a "back seat" to moms at times but this should never occur.  Their presence is an important one in shaping and molding the lives of their children!

 

Being an "Air Force" Brat myself...Veteran's Day is extrememly important.  May we never forget the blessings we have in this country.  So proud of my dad and brothers for their service and I know many of you understand that too.  Many important veterans in your lives.  The kids greeted our veterans and families and everyone beamed!  Some of the comments made by the kids to the passers were..."Thank you for your service,"  "Thank you for serving our country and the world," "Welcome and please come back"!  They sounded like a commercial.  We just told them to greet them and say "Welcome".   I think they really understood and were in "awe" of the men and women in uniform...  Great Day!

 

Next week, we will present our posters to 2nd grade and encourage them to join our Book Drive.  We will graph our book efforts and we will enjoy Thanksgiving Lunch with many of our parents. Get those lunch forms in!  Closing in on Thanksgiving!  Get your PTA Book orders in and thank you so much for everyone who has responded!  Encourage good listening and behavior as we head into the holiday season!