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

I hope all of you heard about our Jog-A-Thon last Friday! It was so fun and the kids ran so well! I am not sure how much money our class brought in but you still have time to make a donation as the money isn't due until Friday, May 11. 

Open House is this Thursday at 6:30. I hope your entire family will be able to come and visit our classroom. Your child is very excited to show you around. He/she will be your personal tour guide so stick close to him/her and be ready for a great personal tour! 

Have you seen our new garden box? It is fabulous! The students did a wonderful job redoing it. Much thanks to Linda Morales for leading them in this project! 


Our end of the year party is on Wednesday, June 6. We will be going to Seacliff Beach. A permission slip will be coming home soon. If you plan to drive, please make sure your driver's forms are updated and in the office well before the date of the trip. 


Many thanks to all of our wonderful workshop volunteers who have helped us all year long. I wanted to let you all know that we appreciate your help and that we won't be having workshops anymore this year. 


See you Thursday night!

First Grade

We will enjoy the story the New Friend which will help us force on evaluating the structure of a story. We will answer the comprehension questions also to make sure that we are understanding what we read. The story also shows us how there are words that take an ES at the end instead of just an S to make it plural.

We will continue our study of habitats focusing this week on the ocean. I hope you enjoy many non fiction books about the ocean at home this week too. 

In math we will refocus again on fact families. Please complete chapters 18 and 19 in your at home math book to reinforce this concept. It is very easy to make worksheets of fact families so feel free to make homemade ones as well. All the extra practice will help!

This Saturday at the Capitola Mall there will be the Author's Fair. Please take some time to stop by the mall  and look for the Rio del Mar table. Each class will have student made books there for all to enjoy. Each year they ask students to come up front and read his/her book to the crowd. If your child is interested in doing this, find the person in charge and sign up.

Remember that this Friday is our school's Jogging for the Arts. Help your child to remember to come to school ready to run!

A special thank you to Linda Morales for all her hard work with the students decorating our garden box. It looks amazing! She will finish planting with the student this week so please send in your child's favorite flower to be planted.

Welcome to a new week. I hope you all enjoyed the beautiful weather this past Saturday as I did! We were hoping that the weather stayed nice so Mrs. Morales could work with the kids to finish the garden project! Have you seen it? I love the bright orange color they picked. The designs that they will paint on the garden box will finish it off! We will get out there again when the weather gets better. If you haven't sent in your child's favorite flower please do so soon so it can get planted into our Room 6 Garden Box.

We have a new story this week that will help us focus on the different sounds that the letter y makes depending on where it is in the word. This story also helps us focus on details and how they provide so much interest in a story. We will try to add many details in our writing this week and from this point on. A good way to help you child with this is to ask him/her to speak using many details when telling you about something.

In math we will learn how to relate subtraction to addition and the other way around. For instance, if you know that 2+7 is 9 then you know that 9-7 is 2. This should be your focus this week while doing the daily math review with your child.

In science, we will study a new habitat, the desert. Do you have desert books at home? If you do, this week is s a good time to read them. The kids are enjoying adding all the new learning to their science journal. It will come home again soon for you to see what they have been doing.

This week we will celebrate Earth Week with many different activities. You child should come home talking about ways you can help save the earth by reusing, recycling and reducing. They noticed today how much trash they have daily just in their lunch! This is something they are going to try to reduce.

Have a great week!

Welcome to a new week! It is nice to have a full week!

We started our study of habitats last week which is always fun. Your child heard many non fictions stories about the temperate forest and then wrote in their science journal what they learned. They also had a directed drawing lesson on the temperate forest with Mrs. Werner. Their drawings are amazing and you will see them soon when your child brings home his/her science journal.

In math we will continue our study of money. Your child is learning to put the coins in order from the highest value to the lowest and then add the value of all the coins. This is really fun for them so please continue this at home as it is a fun way to help your child and it really makes a difference when the concepts we are studying here at school are continued at home.

After last week's crazy weather, I decided it was a good time to read Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Afterwards, your child pretended to move to the town of Chewandswallow and became a meteorologist. While in Chewandswallow, they wrote their own version of the story. The stories are fantastic so take a minute and stop by to read them.

This week we will read all about Johnny Appleseed and learn how to take facts from a story to retell it to a friend. This story will also help us learn to sequence a story to make it make sense.

Have a great week!

Welcome back!

I hope all of you had a wonderful break and spend quality time with your family. I had an amazing trip to DC to visit my daughter who attends The Catholic University of America in DC. The weather was beautiful and being with her was the best!

The children had a great time performing their Reader Theater plays for you. Weren't they amazing? I hope you all took videos! They were proud of all of their hard work. I know everyone had fun skating afterwards and thanks to those of you who volunteered your time and help to make it a great time for all.

In science, will be studying habitats so please enjoy non fiction books at home as well as talk to your child about different habitats.

In math we will continue learning about money and start learning about time to the hour and half hour. Please work on telling time at home to by using a traditional clock or watch.

We are also getting ready for Open House which is Thursday, May 10.

Please continue to have your child read to you nightly and also practice math facts (addition and subtraction to 20).

First Grade

This week we will be reading a non fiction story about the life cycle of a butterfly.

Our strategy focus will be learning how to evaluate a non fiction story. We will use this

story to help us learn how to find the topic, main idea and details of a story.

We will use this story to help us review words with the endings s, es, ed and ing.

In math, we will continue working in Chapter 20 learning about money. We will be identifying and

finding the value of pennies, nickels and dimes. We will be skip counting by 5 and 10. Now is

a great time to take out all that change you have been collecting at home and let your child

sort, identify and count them. Skip counting by fives is like counting nickels and skip counting

by tens is like counting dimes.

In science, we will continue our unit on weather so please take time while at home together

to read the weather report in the paper and or listen to the

weather report on the news. We plan to act as meteorologists daily here in the classroom too.

Please remember to send in your child's permission slip to attend our field trip this Friday to the Roller Rink. Please also remember to send in $10 cash that is needed to attend the trip.

This Friday we will performing our reader's theater plays. We hope you all can come and watch. We will start at 8:30 am so be in the classroom by then please and don't forget your video camera!