Math Videos!

Hello families! 
 As many of you know we started a new series last year, Math Expressions.  This program is awesome, but some of the strategies are quite different from how we learned math in elementary school.  So to help with that process we have made a tutorial to go along with the homework coming home in Thursday folder. I have created a new "Math Videos" page up top. The first video is posted! If you ever have questions about homework, please ask!

Happy Learning!
Mrs. Leiferman

PAWSitive Behavior!

HI 1st grade families and friends!
We had a fantastic second week. :) I gave out a lot of PAWS to students who were being safe, responsible, and respectful. We got 3 compliments in the hallway today from other adults for our behavior! Way to go! Please continue to encourage your child to earn those PAWS cards!

We did our first art project today... take a look! I can already tell that I have 22 creative kids this year!

1st Week!

We had an OUTSTANDING first week of school! :) I am so proud of every student in our class. We worked really hard this week on procedures and expectations. Next week, we will begin our "regular" schedule.

The first math homework packet will be in Thursday folders next week, and it is due back to school by the following Thursday.

The first spelling homework sheet will be sent home on September 25th, and those sheets will also be due back the following Thursday.

If you ever have any questions or concerns about homework, please let me know right away!

I am excited to work with all of you this year!

Mrs. Leiferman

* I have updated the "A Look into this Week" and "Spelling/Sight word" tabs up top. I will update them every Friday from now on! If you notice I haven't updated it, PLEASE send me an email to remind me. :) I will do it asap!

Welcome to First Grade!

This blog will be an additional way to keep our 1st grade families updated on what is going on in our classroom. I hope you enjoy and take advantage of our blog. On this site, you will be able to find upcoming events, spelling/sight words, test dates, birthdays, and much more! Please let me know if you have ideas to make this site more useful.

I hope you are as excited as me for the 2014-2015 school year! See you soon! :) 

Painting Like Michelangelo

Today we learned about the artist Michelangelo. Did you know it took him 4 years to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?! He was famous for painting, sculpting, designing buildings, and poetry.

We pretended we were painting the ceiling of a building like Michelangelo did. Take a look!

Happy Earth Day!

Great projects 1st Grade!

You Reached Your Goal!

Congrats to the 11 students who reached their AR goal this quarter. We celebrated today with some cupcakes and games! We played draw the tail on the donkey, draw the beard on the minion, and draw a nose on Olaf! It was a blast. :)