We had a wonderful second week of school with everyone getting into the groove of first grade! It is so wonderful as a teacher to watch these young ones want to quickly become independent and do things on their own. I hope you are seeing this at home too! I am loving it!

Here is peek at our 4 day school week:

Math: We will work in chapter 11 which is a review of patterning. Enjoy making more challenging patterns at home with your child as they play with legos and other manipulatives.

Language Arts: We will enjoy three Houghton Mifflin stories this week with all of them having the same focus: cause and effect/evaluation. We will also focus on the short i words and make word families to help us practice. Last week we spend a lot of time looking at the beginning, middle and end of stories and this week we will do the same but have fun making up our own endings to stories.

Word Wall Words: Each week I will introduce 5 new word wall words. This week's are
all, who, find, one, went. Making an at home word wall is a great idea. Add these words to the ones we already have on our Word Wall. The words are, at, as, and, a, are, because, for, from, have, his, in, I, is, it, like, my, of, on, play, see, said, she, to, this, that, they, the, want, was, with, you.

I appreciate all of the classroom supplies you have so generously donated and we are all set EXCEPT for ink for our HP Photosmart C4680 printer.

Thank you for labeling all of your child's clothes and lunch boxes. It helps your child locate his/her things easily.

Have a great weekend and remember to email me, if you haven't already, that you have read the blog and then I will be able to add your name to our email blast that I am making.

Cheers,
Mrs. Robinson

Welcome to first grade! I am so excited for our new school year!

Here are a few things to help tomorrow run a little smoother.

I will greet each child at the door and ask him/her how he/she will be going home.  If your child's going home procedure changes after the first day, please send me an email and let me know. 

If your child brings a lunch from home, have them leave the labeled lunchbox  outside the classroom under the windows. If your child is  buying hot lunch, either send in $3.00, or purchase a ticket online. Please send your child with a snack each day as many of the children are hungry before our scheduled lunch time. Please put the snack in a different section of the lunch box or make sure your child knows what is the snack for the day so he/she can easily take it out and up to snack recess.  

Please let your child know what to expect when he/she first arrives on the first day of school. 

1. Put your lunch box under the window in the hallway

2. Hang up your backpack on the hook under your name

3. Find your desk, write your name on the activity page and start drawing a picture of your favorite part of the summer.

Starting Tuesday, August 21, when your child arrives at school,  please have your child go right up to the playground with his/her backpack.  School starts at 7:55. Please do not drop off your child at school before 7:30 as there is no supervision. If your child comes to school before 7:40 they go directly to the intermediate playground where they are supervised  and at 7:40 the supervisors take them up to the primary upper playground.

                My email is lea_robinson@pvusd.net.  Please email me telling me you read this blog, so that I know you have received this information and then I will also have your email address. 

As a reminder, this Wednesday is a restructured day so dismissal is 12:20. Each child has his/her own pencil box with the needed school supplies but if you would like to send in a boxes of 24 colored Crayolas that would be great as I know the children like to have many difference colors to choose from.  No need to purchase any other school supplies.

Looking forward to a great year,

Lea Robinson