Monday, May 23, 2022

The last day of first grade!

 It's hard to believe that we made it to our last day of first grade!  Many accomplishments have been made by your first graders this year!  You are welcome to go back to past Blog posts to see all of the pictures of our first grade experiences!  We've had so much fun!

Enjoy the many pictures from field day and our animal habitats!  We have been busy!

I will be sending home a packet that has your child's 4th quarter skills report along with a collection of your child's work this year tomorrow.  I hope you enjoy seeing the growth from the beginning to the end! :) If by chance your child gets sick and is unable to be here on our last day tomorrow, I will leave their packet and gift from me in the office for you to pick up. 😀 


Field Day!!




























Animal Habitats


























Have an awesome summer!!
I'll miss you 2nd Graders!
💜 Mrs. Scott 💜






Monday, May 9, 2022

The week of May 9-13

 I hope all of our Mothers had a wonderful Mother's Day!  We made cards for you!  If you didn't see it, look for it in their folder or in their papers that were brought home!  I want to personally say THANK YOU mommas for all that you do for your children.  You are doing a fantastic job raising them!  

Enjoy the pictures below of your child holding one of the chicks from a kindergarten class!  The kindergarten classes hatched chicks for their farm unit.  

This week in Phonics we are moving on to --or, ore, oar.

When the /or/ sound is on the end of word it is often spelled -ore such as; more, store, score.

If or is followed by a consonant, such as corn or fork, we usually use the or spelling.

Then we have the oa vowel team that is tricky to remember--oar, soar, roar.

High Frequency Words 

open, walk, buy, every

We learned about suffixes and not we will learn about 

Prefixes--

 dis (not) dislike, distrust

pre ( before). preheat, preplan

Math--Our math test for our last chapter on 3D shapes will be on Wednesday!  

Beach Week!

Next week we will be doing lots of beach theme activities!  

Science--This week we will be learning more about animals.  Today we read a book about What if you had Animal Ears? It's a fun book about how the ears are useful to the animals.  Then, the class wrote what they would look like with the animal ears they chose and how they would use the ears.

We will be choosing an animal to research and find facts about it.  

Habitats!  Please have a shoe box here by Monday, May 16th to make our animal habitats. If you don't have any shoe boxes,  please let me know!

Coming up!

May 13      Field Day

May 16.     Field Day Raindate

May 18.     Papa Murphy's Food Night
                   Ukraine Kaleidoscope Program (Visitors from Ukraine bring articles, do dances, and inform us on Ukraine). I bet we will learn even more this year about their history!

May 24.    Last day of school--1/2 day

Here we are with the chicks from Ms. Howard's Kindergarten chick hatch!  I hatched chicks for 10 years when I taught KDG, so I had to go back and see them!




























Monday, May 2, 2022

The week of May 2-6

May!!  Wow!  Only 15 1/2 days left of school!  It has just flown by!  Your kids have come so far this year in all areas of first grade!  I am so proud of them!

We enjoyed Ernie Miller coming with their animals.  See the pictures below of the animals and the kids holding up the ecosystems of the animals.  

Today we began our animal unit learning about parents and their babies--What their babies for each are called and how they take care of them.

We will also be finding out what mammals are and which animals are animals.

Animal life cycles will also be part of our unit.  This week we will learn about the butterfly life cycle.

Phonics--We are finishing with "ar" and moving on to the r-controlled sounds ir, er, ur.  These sounds are tough to learn when to use them.  We will talk about when we hear the /er/ sound at the end of a word with more than one syllable, it is usually an-er.  

High frequency words:  your, because, always, want

Math--Chapter 10!  Our last chapter is on  Three-Dimensional Shapes (cone, cube, cylinder, rectangular prism, sphere)

We will be learning how many faces/vertices they each have, which ones can stack  to make a composite shape, and what faces are on objects.  ie.  a box has a square as a face.

Pictures from Ernie Miller!

Domestic Ferret Phantom--So cute!



Eastern Screech Owl- so cool!



Speckled King Snake


Our Kansas Reptile-The Ornate Box Turtle-Fast little guy!


Coming up!

May 13      Field Day

May 16.     Field Day Raindate

May 18.     Papa Murphy's Food Night
                   Ukraine Kaleidoscope Program (Visitors from Ukraine bring articles, do dances, and inform us on Ukraine). I bet we will learn even more this year about their history!

May 24.    Last day of school--1/2 day