Just a Note

We’re super proud of your kids for their hard work learning to do 1st grade together! We read the Bucketfillers book by Carol McCloud our first week of school and we’re getting closer to filling our class bucket by doing kind and loving things! We also began a system for encouraging us to use only Spanish in our classroom. At the beginning of each week students are given 10 gems. They can earn more for speaking awesome Spanish or get gems taken away if they speak English. On the last day of the week the gems (including extras!) they still have equal that many minutes of choice time. The gems they got taken away are extra minutes to practice speaking Spanish with a teacher. Your kids are working so hard at keeping our classroom environment special by staying in the target language! We know they can do it!

Important Dates

• Sept. 1 and Sept. 4: No School – Labor Day
• Sept. 7: Elementary Parent Information Meetings, 6:00PM and 7:00PM, elementary-wide parent information gathering in gym from 6:35-6:55
• Sept. 5-7: Fall Delta Math Screener window (more details coming later)
• Sept. 13-17: MAP Growth window (more details coming later)

Reminders & Announcements

• I would like to share an email distribution list with a parent in our class and eventually with our parent liaison. If you would like your email to stay private and not be included in this list, please let us know by Tuesday, September 5. Thank you!
• Please continue sending a water bottle to school with your child.
• Please be sure to include Maestra Izenbaard and Maestra Rodríguez on all emails.

What We’re Learning Right Now

Math: Add and subtract within 10 and represent and interpret categorical data.

Bible: Building on the rock- Biblical truths and First grade Faith Formation Focus- Purpose

Social Studies: All About Me

Writing: Practice appropriate letter formation, writing a complete sentence, using capital letters, spacing between words and punctuation marks at the end. We can tell stories in pictures and in words. Our illustrations should relate to the story.

Mentor Text: no new mentor text

Language Feature: Sentences- What is a sentence used for? What are the parts of a sentence? What kinds of sentences are there?  What´s the difference between a declarative sentence and an interrogative sentences.

High Frequency Words:

• yo
• soy
• el
• y
• el día
• este
• hola

Just a Note

What a great first week! We continue to talk a lot about our classroom being like a family. Most of us don’t live together, but we do spend a lot of time together! That’s why it’s so important to love each other, respect and celebrate our differences, and help each other when we need it! We’re really enjoying getting to know your kids and we think they’re excited about connecting with one another too!

Important Dates

• Sept. 1 and Sept. 4: No School – Labor Day
• Sept. 7: Elementary Parent Information Meetings, 6:00PM and 7:00PM, elementary-wide parent information gathering in gym from 6:35-6:55
• Sept. 5-7: Fall Delta Math Screener window (more details coming later)
• Sept. 13-17: MAP Growth window (more details coming later)

Reminders 

• Busing begins next week! Thanks for filling out the questionnaire that included transportation info!
• Please send in a family picture (4×6) if you haven’t already!)
• Please continue sending a water bottle to school with your child.
• Please be sure to include Maestra Izenbaard and Maestra Rodríguez on all emails.

What We’re Learning Right Now

Math: Add and subtract within 10 and represent and interpret categorical data.

Bible: Building on the rock- Biblical truths and First grade Faith Formation Focus- Purpose

Writing: Practice appropriate letter formation, writing a complete sentence, using capital letters, spacing between words and punctuation marks at the end.

Mentor Text: La vaca que decía oink

Language Feature: Sentences- What is a sentence used for? What are the parts of a sentence? What kinds of sentences are there?

High Frequency Words:

• yo
• soy

Dear Families,

We am thrilled to be partnering with you and your family this year! Thank you for entrusting your children to us for the next several months! We trust that God has handpicked each person who is joining our class this year and cannot wait to see all the things He has perfectly planned out for us all! I will be using this blog to share weekly newsletters, pictures, announcements, and of course, lots and lots of reminders… I need them too! Please subscribe to our blog by clicking the “subscribe by email” widget. Locate the widget to the right, enter your email, and hit “subscribe.” This way you will receive an email each time I add something new to the blog. As always, if you have any questions at all, please ask! We can’t wait to get to know you all better and spend our days with your 1st grader!

God bless!

Melissa