Happy Holidays!

Our Winter Break is here!! I have had the best time this month with our sweet first graders. I am so looking forward to a great 2015! Thank you parents for making this school year a huge success so far! When our students come back in 2015 we will begin our Reading 3D middle of the year testing. Please make sure to practice all of those sight word, reading skills, and comprehension questions. Also, please make sure you are reading each night!! I have attached a link below for a Winter Break Practice Pack. This would be perfect to work on over break! Let me know if you have any questions. I can't wait to see you all in 2015. Have a WONDERFUL holiday break! :)

Winter Break Practice Pack

Snowmen at Christmas

What a great week back from break! I hope you all enjoyed some relaxing time off. We have our next break in just two weeks! I can't believe it!! We have been hard at work learning about long vowels and that sneaky silent e! We are also reading holiday themed books and practicing our comprehension skills. During Social Studies we are traveling the world and learning about different countries around the world! The kids really love this (and me too)!!!

Here is a peek at what we are working on:

Online read aloud (click link below)

Snowmen At Christmas

Silent e videos:
Silent E (click here)

I'm Thankful Ya'll! :)

It's almost Thanksgiving break!! We have had the best time learning all about Thanksgiving and turkeys in 1st grade. I think our favorite fiction story we read was The Great Turkey Race. We made the cutest retelling turkeys to make our learning exciting. Students had to retell the beginning, middle, and end of the story on their racing turkeys. Take a peek below to see how precious the turned out! I want to also thank all of you who came out for parent/teacher conferences. Thank you for being so involved!

Plans for 11/24-11/25 

Conferences

Hello families! I just want to remind you all that we are having our parent teacher conferences this week and next week after school. If you have already signed up- thank you! If you still need to schedule a time please contact me at school or email. (mmcintosh@hcs.k12.nc.us)

Thank you! Have a GREAT week! :)

November already??

Happy November!!

I hope everyone had a great Halloween! We had a busy week with benchmarks. I love love love how hard the students worked to do their best! It was also a fun week in reading. We read a lot of Halloween stories and worked on monster narrative writings. They turned out so cute. The students were given a pair of googly eyes and then asked to create and describe their own monsters. I will hang those up tomorrow and take pictures.

On Friday I sent home our conference sheet sign ups. Please sign up for a time and send back asap! We will also be going on our field trip to the Gallberry Corn Maze this Friday. If you have not done so already please send back your form and money.

I hope everyone is doing well and I hope to hear back soon about conference sign ups! Thanks for all you do! :)

Peek at our week!

Wow! Last week of the 1st quarter! I can't believe how fast this year is going by. Last week we learned all about spiders. It was FANTASTIC! The students were engaged and loved every second. I will post pictures of our work later this week. :)

Here is a peek at our week 10/20/14 - 10/24/14. Pumpkins!

Pets in the classroom!

Our classroom was given a grant from PetSmart to have a fish tank in our room. We got this a few weeks back. I wanted to share our friends with you! Please meet Cotton Candy, Candy Corn, and Spotty. We loved reading all about our fish, how to take care of them, and some fiction stories about pets. What a fun and engaging thing for our classroom!

Bats!

Last week we were hard at work in writing. We researched, gathered facts, and read all about bats! We also compared fiction and non-fiction stories relating to bats. Here are some examples of our awesome work!

Informational Writing

Our first graders are hard at work in writing! We are researching our favorite fall topics, brainstorming, drafting, and publishing. So far the top favorite topics are bats, spiders, and Halloween. I love how hard everyone is working. They sure love their non-fiction! 

                                                

Happy Fall Ya'll!

Happy 1st day of Fall!!

Wow! I can't believe September is almost over. This school year is flying by already! We have been hard at work in reading. We have been learning all about short vowel sounds, nouns and verbs, narrative writing, push and pull, and so much more! This week we are working on syllables and double consonant blends (-ll,-ss,-ff,-ck,) in reading.

Progress reports will be going home this Friday. Make sure to take a look at those and call or email if you have any questions or concerns!

I am also sending home parent letters this week to have you sign in to our classroom dojo account. This is another way to track your child's behavior and progress at school. If you would like to be a part of this please send back the signed form. :)

Don't forget our Title 1 Bingo night Thursday! Have a great week. :)

Back to School

What a wonderful week! Last week was our first week back to school and it was great. I loved getting to meet all of my new little firsties. We were very busy this week setting up procedures, learning classroom rules, and practicing literacy centers. The teachers also ended the week with a nice refreshing ice bucket challenge! It was so much fun. I hope everyone has had a nice long Labor Day weekend. I can't wait for another awesome week!

Open House

Oh. My. Word!! Open house was so awesome last night. I am so glad I got to meet so many of my new students! Thank you to everyone who was able to come out and say hi. :)

Don't forget school starts this Monday, August 25, 2014. It is going to be a great year. Please remember to send back all of the paperwork that you had to fill out!

I hope you all have a restful weekend before the craziness of back to school begins. I can't wait!

1st Teacher Day

Wow! Today was the first teacher day back and we sure are busy trying to get everything ready for the #BestYearEver!!!

I made the cutest B.E.E. binder covers the other night and I think they are perfect! B.E.E. stands for your Bring Everything Everyday binder. This is what I will send home with the students daily to keep up with their behavior, notes, papers, homework, etc.! I think this will really be great for our students.

Tonight I also put together a little handout to send home with our parents on back to school night. This will just give a quick overview of some important information. *Thanks Mrs. Williams and Ms. Baver!

BEE Happy!

Welcome to FIRST GRADE! The first day of school is just around the corner. I am getting pretty excited! 

Here are some sneak peeks of my classroom…