First Week of School!

It has been a great first week in first grade!  We have been learning the rules and routines of our classroom, as well as getting to know all of our new classmates!

What We Learned this Week: 
-Routines such as coming to school in the morning, packing up to leave in the afternoon, lunch and recess, walking in the hallway, etc. 

-Class rules that we brainstormed together.  The rules that the students came up with are:
1. Be kind and use kind words
2. Listen to teachers and friends
3. Keep a safe body-hands and feet to yourself
4. Work quietly and remember voice level
5. Clean up after yourself
6. Eat your own snack
7. Use walking feet
8. Be responsible with flexible seating 

-We learned about our classmates through our summer treasure show and tell.  The students loved being able to share memories with their new friends.  If your child forgot to bring something in on Friday, you can send them with a treasure on Monday.  

-We reviewed sentence writing rules and students wrote about their summers.  
Sentence Rules to remember: 
1. Capital letter
2. Punctuation
3. Sentence makes sense
4. Spaces between words
5. Spelling 

Reminders: 
-Thank you to everyone that sent back office and classroom paperwork.  If you have not yet turned everything in, please try to send it back this week!  I also am not able to upload pictures until I receive everyone's blog permission slips back.  

-Our students brought home their poetry binders on Friday for the first time with the two poems we read this week.  Encourage students to read the words they know, but feel free to help them with reading the poems if they need assistance.  Please have the lucky listener sign and return each Monday!

-Please look for a sign-up to come in as a mystery reader coming soon! 

Thank you for your support!! :)