Welcome to my online teacher portfolio!

Welcome! I have recently decided to turn an old classroom website into my new teaching portfolio. In the posts below you will find examples of the student work done in my classroom from one of the years that I taught first grade. I decided to keep these pages because they are a great example of what a year in my classroom looks like! Please also take a moment to explore the links at the top of this blog. There you will find my resume, lesson examples, pictures, and so much more. If you have any other questions or would like to know more please email or call. I look forward to hearing from you and teaching at your school!

Way Down Deep in the Deep Blue Sea

Oceans! Oceans! Oceans! This week we will be learning all about ocean animals. We will learn about whales, crabs, seahorse, dolphins, fish, and so much more. We will assume the role of marine biologists. It is going to be so much fun. We deserve some fun now that we are done with our end of the year reading 3D testing. I am so proud of the growth my students have made in reading this year. Check back to see some of our student work later on in the week.

We have also finished learning all of the 1st grade sight words. The homework will look a little different this week because we are moving on to fluency phrases. Check the homework tab to have a better look.

The Rule of Three

This week we learned about the rule of three in fairy tales. We read about eight different versions of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We compared each version and pulled out story elements. We have also been working hard in small groups practicing our comprehension for the upcoming reading 3D assessment. We read The Three Billy Goats Gruff and The Three Billy Goats Fluff. We compared these two stories as well. On Friday we decided to have a little fun and make our own troll bridges! This goes well with our How To writings. We wrote out the steps for building our bridges. This was a big hit! Take a look below.

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Once upon a time...

Once upon a time there was a first grade class who loved fairy tales. Oh wait! That is us! We are having so much fun with our fairy tale unit right now. This will take us all the way up into the first week of May. We read 6 different versions of Little Red Riding Hood this week. Next week our focus will be on Goldie Locks and next week Cinderella. We will close off the unit with fractured fairy tales. Fairy tales are my favorite thing to teach and we are having so much fun!

We also had a Read Five Give Five assembly today. If you can please send in 5 books for your child to donate. They will then get to pick out 5 new ones in May. Please see the paper I sent home for more information on our book drive.

Have a GREAT week!

Spring Fever

Here in first grade we have come down with something... SPRING FEVER! We wrote about what we were most looking forward to this spring. The students birds turned out so sweet! We also studied bugs and insects last week. That was a HUGE hit!

Don't forget this week (March 30- April 2) is k-2 math benchmarks. We also do not have school on Friday!

I hope you all have a wonderful spring break!!!

Read Across America Week!

March is here!!! With this new month brings GREAT things! First off this week we will be celebrating Read Across America. We will be doing all things Seuss! We will be reading a different Dr.Seuss book each day and completing activities that go along with each book. Another fun thing this week is our Staff basketball game against Rockfish Hoke on Thursday night. Please come out and support our school!

Here is a link for some fun Dr. Seuss activities/games to do at home with your child!

http://www.seussville.com/?home#/home/

Peek at our week! February 23rd-27th

February is almost over! I can't believe how fast this year is going!! This week in science we will be studying rocks. We are so excited to start this unit. For homework on Monday night I am asking each student to try and bring in a rock that they found. We will be using these for some investigations.

Take a peek at our week below!