Welcome to First Grade

Daily Routine is very important to young children and to teachers of experience, so listed below you will see our schedule. We don’t always accomplish everything everyday, but we always try.

8.00 8.20 Unpack backpacks and morning activity/ Journal Writing

820-915 Phonics lesson

915- 10.30 Reading groups, independent work, stations, ESL

10.30-10.55 Morning message, big book, and Math meeting

10.55-11.25 Lunch

11.25-12.30 RR break and math lesson

12.30-1.00 Social studies or Science

1.00-145 P.E with Mrs. Graham

1.45-2.00 Fine Arts and music

2.00-2.30 Computer Tues/Thurs

Library Wed

2.30-2.45 Snack and Read aloud

2.45-300 Recess

3.00-3.15 Pack up/ review the day closing activities

Remember that starting in October we started Book-it. Your child needs to read each night. When they read for 150 minutes a month and return the reading log, they will receive a coupon for a free personal pizza from Pizza Hut. Yummy yummy!!! Only 6 kids in October received pizza slips-so make sure they fill out their forms.

Don’t forget to save Box tops for education, Campbell’s soup labels, Nestle’s Water labels, old cell phones and ink cartridges, Community Coffee labels and also the tabs from drink cans. Most of these give money back to the school, some such as the tabs are a service project. It is a competition between the classes and first grade likes to win-last 6 weeks we were in 2^nd place.

Reading: Here are some sight word that your child needs to know: goes do been some said from friend what who color, their, there, want, was, don’t won’t brought ,fought, thought,were

Don’t forget to read with your child nightly. They should have a book baggy every night except Friday. –Library books too!!

The AR party for this six weeks is a bounce house slide. So all the kids need to be reading, reading and more reading to meet their goal. The party will be on November 21.

Math: Practice counting, patterning, sorting, double facts, adding zero, adding one, counting by 10

We now have 3 adopted varsity basketball players, Clayton Cara and Rachel. We will cheer for them at the pep rallies, make cards and notes for them.

Please remember to ask your child about what they learned that day.

My conference time is 1.00-1.45. You can call the school at 903 479-3706 to schedule a conference or leave a message with Mrs. Judy. E-mail is another option for good communication, my e-mail is thilton@martinsmillisd.net.

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Math Games and Activities for kids

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