A Great First Week!!

**The first blog post! This is how I plan to do weekly updates, post schedules, etc. You can always find old posts on the right hand side of the blog. So if you're looking for the Captain Schedule, you should see it, click on it and there it is. It also archives by month, so if you need something in December that was posted in October, click on October and it should be there. I'm hoping that this will work great, so please let me know if you're having any trouble.

Well it's the end of our first week. It has been a great week, filled with all sorts of fun things! I hope your child had as much fun as I did! Here is a recap of some of the things we did in our classroom:

*Learned about Morning Meeting
*Learned a cow greeting and a stick greeting
*Sang some fun songs like the Mack Chicken Dance, The Freeze and The Wishy Washy Washer Woman
*Read lots of stories like, First Day Jitters, Chrysanthemum, Wemberly Worried, and Jillian Jiggs
*Started reading a chapter book aloud, Junie B. Jones First Grader at Last
*Read about a monster who came to school and came up with our own rules. We decided on
1. Be Safe
2. Be Respectful
3. Be Responsible
4. Be a positive member of our classroom

*Had a visit from our counselor Mrs. Butzer
*Explored centers like math cubes, stencils, painting, stories, and beads
* Practiced writing our names, numbers and letters
* Made name posters
* Learned more about each other with Star Pods
* Played Letter Bingo
* You'll have to ask your child about all of the other fun things, as there were more, but I'll stop there!
As you can see, the week was filled with lots of fun activities as we got to know each other. We will be doing so many fun things in first grade! Next week we will begin our Storytown Reading series, and math! Watch for some homework coming home next week as well.

Wednesday Folders
*This year, we will try to save and send all important papers home on Wednesday. They won't come in a special folder, just on Wednesdays, so please be looking for them. Others will come home from time to time, so always be on the lookout, but especially on Wednesdays!

Captains
*Every two days we will have class captains. See the post below for details and the schedule!

Picture Forms
*Picture forms came home TODAY. Pictures are Wednesday, September 22! Please return it by then if you wish to order photos.

Pat your child on the back for an awesome week of FIRST GRADE!!!! It's going to be a GREAT YEAR!!!!

Here are just a few pictures from centers this week