Happy Valentine's Day! We had the best time today making our friendship fruit salad and handing out our valentines. Thank you so much to everyone who donated fruit, it turned out great! In the rush of Valentine's Day fun, I forgot to hand out progress reports so please be on the look out on Tuesday! With only a few weeks left of 3rd quarter it is time to sign up for our spring parent/teacher conference. Please follow the link below and select the time that works best for you. I look forward to meeting with you! http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f084baca92ba3fc1-spring Remember there is no school on Monday for Presidents' Day.
Have a great long weekend! -Miss Turco
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This week was short but sweet! We had fun learning about 3D shapes and even went on a shape scavenger hunt around the school. We also celebrated our 100th day of school, this year is flying by! Please make sure to check out the announcement section at the bottom of this post, there are many fun events right around the corner! Next Week
Reading: We will continue to read "Me on The Moon." We will work on comparing and contrasting two types of text. Math: We will start equal shares (fractions) this week! Some vocabulary we will be using: equal parts, halves, thirds, fourths, and quarters. Writing: We will be writing an Opinion Narrative using the text "I Wanna New Room." Science: We will continue learning about the Moon! Announcements Friday, February 12th: Father/Daughter Dance Candyland theme from 6-8 Tuesday, February 16th: PTA Meeting @ 3:30 in Rover Library Friday, February 26: Rover Art Walk 5:00-7:00 PM Have a great weekend! -Miss Turco :) Hello All, I hope you are having a great week! We were busy bees this week and got a lot of work done! In reading we learned all about different animal groups. In math we did review centers and focused on 2-D shapes, missing addend, time to the hour and half hour, and addition/subtraction. I think the kids enjoyed working with hands on manipulatives, and it was great practice! Please remember we do not have school Monday, January 18th, in observance of MLK. Here are some pictures from our math centers, and oil pastel art project we did today! Next Week
Reading: We will be reading the story, Let's Go To The Moon. We will be learning about informational text features. Our phonics skill will be long vowel o. Writing: We will be integrating Social Studies and Writing this week! We will learn about Martin Luther King Jr. and will be completing a writing project. Math: We will be learning about 3 dimensional shapes. Some vocabulary we will use: cone, sphere, cylinder, rectangular prism, cube, vertex, vertices, faces, and edges. Science: We will be studying the moon for the next two weeks. We will do a variety of moon activities and projects! Have a nice three day weekend. See you Tuesday! :) -Miss Turco I can't believe we are halfway through the school year! It has been an amazing year in first grade so far and I can't wait to see what 2016 brings. Below are some pictures from our holiday party on Thursday. Thank you so much to the parents that came to help out, it was so much fun! I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and a happy New Year! See you in 2016! :) -Miss Turco :)
Hello Parents,
One more week until Winter Break! We finished up our NWEA assessments today and the kids did such a great job! I know these tests can be a little stressful but the kids soared to the challenge and made great growth! A few reminders for next week: Tuesday December 15th- Holiday Party Donations Due Please have your child bring the item they volunteered to bring by Tuesday, that way I have time to purchase whatever supplies we still need. Thursday December 17th- Holiday Party (1:30 or 1:45-2:45) We will me making gingerbread houses and holiday door hangers. Parents are invited to come if you are able to, I will also need help setting up and cleaning up! Friday December 18th- Pajama and Movie day The kids can wear their pajamas to school and bring a pillow! We will be watching The Polar Express. Friday December 18th- Chocolate Fundraiser Ends The chocolate selling fundraiser will be complete next week! Please be sure to turn in any money raised by Friday! Have a great weekend! -Miss Turco :) Hello Wonderful First Grade Families,
I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving! I am thankful to have such amazing, hard working, kind hearted students! Our class was picked to participate in a Thanksgiving video made by our school district, see our smiling faces about 15 seconds in! Have a great holiday! :) Love, Miss Turco Copy and paste this link in your browser to watch our video! :) https://vimeo.com/146714848?scrlybrkr Hello! What a week! A few celebrations... Our class donated 50 food items to the Rover Food Drive! Our class goal was 50 food items, so we will be having a little popcorn party on Tuesday to celebrate meeting our goal. Our class has also done an AMAZING job selling chocolates, we are raising so much money for our school! Today Summer in our class was a prize winner and got to take home this huge, adorable puppy stuffed animal. They will be choosing more prize winners next week! Next week we will only have school on Monday and Tuesday. We will still do Walk to Read but will NOT have homework. Today we finished our timelines about the history of our country! Here are some pictures of the kids hard at work! Have a great weekend! See you Monday for a short but sweet week!
-Miss Turco Hello! Sorry for the late post, I had so many pictures to upload and wanted to make sure I was able to post them all! We had such a fabulous trip to the MIM, thank you so much to all the parents who were able to join! I went just a little picture crazy, so enjoy! First some pictures from our drum circle, and story circle! Some pictures from the music room where we got to play different instruments! And of course, we had to enjoy the Taylor Swift exhibit! I tried my best to bounce around between the different groups to get pictures of everyone!
Now on to some important reminders: 1. Today marks the kick off to our Rover food drive! We have a class goal of donating 50 items of canned food, or non perishable goods. If everyone donates 2 items we can easily hit our goal! 2. On Friday I sent home permission slips for your child to participate in our new fundraiser. The kids will be selling chocolate to raise money for our school. If you wish to participate please turn in the permission slip as soon as you can! 3. We do not have school this Wednesday in observance of Veterans Day! Have a great week! -Miss Turco :) Happy Halloweekend! I hope you all have a fun, safe Halloween tomorrow night! This week we had fun learning all about spiders and writing spider reports. The kids worked SO hard! Their reports and spider art turned out amazing and they were very proud of themselves. Here are a few proud students and their projects... How cute are those??? Sorry I didn't get everyone's pictures but some were working hard right until clean up time!
Field Trip Everyone turned in their permission slip for our field trip on Wednesday! Woohoo! Please remember to pack a sack lunch and have your child wear comfortable shoes. Also, if you have a Rover Ram shirt, wear it that day. Adults who are chaperoning, I have talked with most of you but please remember if you want to volunteer you HAVE to turn the volunteer form in as soon as possible. Unfortunately if you are not on the list you will not be able to attend and I want to make sure everyone who wants to join is able to. Next Week Reading: We will be reading the biography of Dr. Seuss and focusing on informational text features. Our phonics skill will be short vowel e. Math: We will finish up finding the missing addend in an equation and then will begin a unit of measurement. Writing: We will start a descriptive writing piece next week. I really want the kids to start adding adjectives and their own personal style to their writing pieces! Social Studies: We will be starting a big timeline project showing the history of the United States of America. This is one of my favorite projects that we do! With it we will some fun activities to get ready for Thanksgiving! Have a wonderful weekend, I can't wait to hear all about it on Monday! -Miss Turco :) Happy Friday! It has been a fun, busy week! The Fall Festival is TONIGHT from 5:30-7:30, come with your costumes on! Our class basket turned out fabulous! A huge thanks to Dana Ellett for working so hard on collecting items and putting the basket together. Thank you so much to all the families who made contributions, every bit helped! I am excited to see what lucky family goes home with it tonight! On Monday we will be doing another writing assessment. We will take it in two sessions. First the students will create their thinking map and write their rough draft, then we will take a break and finish with our final copy. These days can be stressful so please make sure your child is on time and has a hearty breakfast. Our next writing assessment will not be until the end of the year, so this is out last one for awhile! I snapped a few cute pictures today out on the playground and inside doing a bat activity for Science. Next Week
Reading: We will be reading the story A Musical Day and will focus on sequencing events. For phonics we will review short vowels a, i, and o. Writing: We will be writing about bats and doing an art project with oil pastels to go with it. Math: We will focus on finding the missing addend in an equation. Science: For science we will learn about the life cycle of pumpkins and will be doing another art project to go with it! (Lots of art next week!!!) Have a blast at the Fall Festival! Please keep an eye out for our field trip permission slips coming home on MONDAY!! -Miss Turco |
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