Green and red day

Friday is red and green day!! Your child can wear red and green to celebrate Christmas! :) 

Kids can also wear a Santa hat as long as it does not distract their leaning. 

Looking great for our christmas program!!

Spelling

We will review word wall words this week, although we will not take an official spelling test. 

Secret sack

Secret sack this week is to share about a special tradition your family takes part in around Christmas. We love to learn what makes our class unique and special! :)

Secret sack

I am sorry for not updating the blog for the upcoming week. I did not have Internet service like I thought I would. Secret sack this week is anything with the er, ir, ur sound. 

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope everyone had a fun and safe Thanksgiving, filled with great memories with family!!  I am excited to see all the kidos on Monday.  I know it has been a few days, so it is important they get plenty of rest to start our week on in a fun, healthy way!  

Please remind your child to dress warm this week, as this nice weather is supposed to be changing.  We will go outside unless the wind chill is below 0 degrees.  

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

No Secret Sack

We will not have Secret Sack this week.

A few notes for next week.

With the short week, we will review and wrap up the skills we were learning last week.  We will focus on nouns, verbs, adjectives and adding doubles plus one.  We will also complete Thanksgiving projects!

We learned about the history of the Cat/Griz football games.  This year will be the 112 time they play each other.  We made predictions about tomorrows game and graphed the results.  Our class predictions show 13 students think the Griz will win and 7 think the Cats will win.  We talked about how predictions are our best guess based on what we know.  It will be fun to see the outcome!

Thank you so much for sending in snacks! I really appreciate it!!

Have a safe and fun weekend!

snacks

Our snack supply is running low.  If your child enjoys a snack provided at school, please send in a box of crackers, fruit snacks, etc to help refill our snack supply.  Thank you!

It was great seeing so many dads this morning at our special event for students and their dads!!

Have a fun and safe weekend!! :)

Thank you for all your thoughts throughout last week and the weekend.  It is great to be back!

Reminder:  We are not taking a spelling test this week.
Becasue of the early outs last week, we combined this weeks skills with what we covered last week.

Morning message helpers

Life cycle of a sugar beet!!

Shape monsters

Reminders

Next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are early out days.  School will be dismissed at 12:00.  Please send in a healthy snack with your child for all three days since lunch will not be provided at school.
I will also be absent all three days with the surgery taking place on Wednesday.

Our snack supply is running low.  If you are able to send in snacks such as crackers or fruit snacks we would greatly appreciate it.

Thank you!

Family Fun Night!

Join us for a fun filled night with games, food and entertainment!!  Your child is invited to wear his/her halloween costume. :)

Correct Dress Up Days

Join us for Red Ribbon Week!

(21st) “Sock It To Drugs” Wear Crazy Socks

(22nd) “Don’t Let Drugs “Tie” You Up” Wear a Necktie

(23rd) “Drugs Stink” Wear Pink

(24th) “No Drugs, No Alcohol...No Sweat” Wear SweatsFriday 

(25th) “Team Up Against Drugs” Wear Something of Your Favorite Sports Team  AND   Kaitlyn's Voice - wear your favorite hat!!

Monday and Tuesday

Monday is "No Drugs, No Alcohol, No Sweat"  wear sweats to school (Red Ribbon Week)

Believe Fundraiser orders and payments are due on Tuesday.  

Secret Sack Next Week

Because of the short week, if your child shares secret sack on Thursday or Friday, please have him/her share on one of the days we are in school next week.  You do not need to let me know what day your child is sharing ahead of time.

Please check the secret sack link for the topic this week.

A Few Notes

Check for a letter in your child's backpack regarding Remind101.  If you have any questions, please contact me.  Next week will be a review of the skills we have practiced the past four weeks.  Our Secret Sack topic is bring anything with the short vowel sound of a, i or o.  Short vowels are not the sound said as the vowels name.  We call that long a, i, o, and we will share those later this year.  Examples of short vowel sounds are cat, bat, man, kit, miss, lift, cot, dog, frog.

Reminder:  Wednesday is an early release day. School will be dismissed at 12:00.  Please send a snack with your child.  No school next Thursday and Friday.

Have a safe and fun weekend!!

Remind101

I have added a new link titled Remind101. This is a new way to know what is going on in your child's class through simple text reminders. (Example text reminders would be secret sack topic, early outs, picture days, etc)
You will send one text to sign up for Remind101, although after that I will only be able to send texts out from this number.  If you need to get ahold of me, do not text this number as this is simply a computer generated number and not my actual phone number.  I will not see your texts!

I will be sending a letter home with more details.  I would love to have everyone on our Remind101 list.  Feel free to have these messages sent to both "mom and dads" cell phones if you'd like. (anyone who may benefit from these messages may sign up)  To receive these messages simple text the message "@missherg"  to 406-545-1899.  You can put your name in how ever you would like it to appear for me.

Thanks :)

Blog Update

I usually update the blog on Friday, although I wanted to let you know it has been updated for the week of October 7-11.

Thank You!!

Thank you so much for all of your donations for our classroom and the Cat/Griz Basket for Saturday Live.  I know it adds up, but we truly appreciate it so much!  Thanks again for all you do!!

Emergency Evacuation Practice

All of Arrowhead Elementary will participate in a practice emergency evacuation on Monday at 10:00.  We will walk to St. Johns.  Please make sure your child is wearing comfortable shoes.

We took our first spelling test today, and I will send it home with your child on Monday.  We will take our short i practice spelling test on Monday.

Have a safe and wonderful weekend!  Hope to see you at Saturday Live!

Spelling pretest

We took our short a spelling pretest today. If your child missed two or less, he/she will take an extended test on Friday. Practice numerous short a words with your child so he/she is prepared for Fridays test. You will find your child's test tomorrow in the Tuesday folder. Iif your child missed more than two words on the pretest, please practice the words under the spelling link. 

Acting out the vocab word connected.

Secret sack today!

Open House and Picture Day

Tomorrow is picture day! First grade will take pictures first thing in the morning.  Don't forget to send in the picture form or print out the copy if you complete the form online.

Open house is tomorrow night.  Do not miss this chance to learn about our reading program Lead 21 and how you can implement this at home, the importance of checking our classroom blog, along with all of the other details that are taking place in your child's classroom.  There are two sessions.  6:00-6:30 and 6:30-7:00.  I will share the same information at both.  I really hope you can attend one of the sessions!

Cat/Griz Basket

Thank you to those of you who have purchased items for our Cat/Griz baskets.  Please continue to send in items as you are able to.  Cat and/or Griz items may be donated.  We will let you know where we stand and if we need more for a basket.  The Arrowhead Staff truly appreciates your donations as the money raised helps purchase the technology that is implemented into every classroom across your child's school.  Without these funds, we would not be able to purchase educational games for the Ipads and computers, along with other educational memberships to help your child learn and grow.

A few things!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Labor Day weekend. We are having a great second week together! I  will be sending a note home tomorrow regarding Secret Sack.  Please look for the day your child is scheduled to share Secret Sack.  This activity is ongoing and will begin Monday, September 9.

We use our markers, maker boards and erasers everyday in first grade! Please send in an erasaer for your child to keep at school throughout the year.  You do not need to buy an eraser specific for this.  A small piece of cloth works great! Examples: washcloth, dishtowel, small sock, etc.

Thank you so much for you help!

Thank you for a great first week!

Thank you for helping make the first week of school fun, rewarding and a positive experience for your child! We had a lot of fun getting to know one another last week. Our week was filled with making friends, learning school rules and understanding classroom routines. Next week will be great, as we will continue to practice procedures through all curricular areas.  My goal is to see that every student has a positive learning experience, in a fun, safe and comfortable environment each and everyday!

Have a relaxing and safe Labor Day weekend! 

Our first day!

We had a fantastic first day together! We made new friends, enjoyed music class, toured the school, and shared about our summer just to name a few. The day flew by! I am so excited to have such wonderful, kind kids in our class! I can't wait to see everyone tomorrow. 

Thank you for providing snacks to share with our class. I really appreciate it. 

Welcome Back

Welcome to the 2013-2014 school year! I am very excited for a wonderful year together, filled with positive learning experiences.  I will update our classroom blog on on a weekly basis.  Please check the blog for our secret sack topic, along with the curricular skills we will be focusing on throughout the week. We have a new reading program called Lead 21 this year.  I am very excited to implement this new program into our classroom.

On occasion, I will also include a family discussion/trivia question.  If you discuss this with your child and write a simple note stating you talked about it, your child will earn a sticker or a prize from the treasure box.  Communication is a vital component for a successful school year.  Therefore, please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions, concerns or information that would be beneficial to your child's education.  I have posted all forms of contact info on the welcome letter received August 26 at meet and greet.