Happy St. Patrick's Day!

It was another great holiday celebrated in our classroom! I loved seeing all the green and shamrocks today. What I love most about St. Patty's day is that it means spring is on it's way! :)

This week we started doing subtraction problems in math. I was very pleased with how easily students were able to catch on to this new skill.Next week we will talk about the relationship between addition and subtraction and learn about fact families.

We also started during research and taking notes for our individual reports in writing. Ask your child a fact they learned today about their selected animal :)

Have a great weekend :)

Sight Words

Good evening,

This week will be our next sight word test. The following sight words will be on this list!

kind, hand, place, again, change
play, spell, present, about, year
different, point, page, letter, mother
answer, found, study, still, work
should, another, high, ask, wear
write, food, between, own, off

I am pleased to say that your children consistently do well on their sight word tests! Please keep up the hard work. These words are found in higher level texts and will increase reading fluency! :)

This week is our zoo field trip! I need at least one more chaperon to make the group sizes managable. The smaller the groups - the better!! 

We will be making a craft for our trip on Wednesday. If you are able to lend a hand for about an hour it would be a huge help! :) Let me know a time you are available and I can work around it!

Sadly I am having trouble posting while at school, I hope is only a temporary problem!

Thanks for reading,
K. Bowes

Happy Birthday Theodore Seuss Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss!

I'll never forget how much joy your books brought me as a young reader, I hope that I am passing this joy on to my students!! My favorite Dr. Seuss book is The Lorax!

To celebrate his birthday, and Read Across America, we will be reading several Dr. Seuss books and completing activities related to Mr. Geisel's work!

Hopefully your child will come home and tell you about our day :)

K. Bowes

Welcome to what I hope will be a wonderfully useful tool to connect what is happening in our class,  to you at home! I wish to use this as a primary source of information about new and great things happening in our class.

And now... my first topic for --

Things I Love:

I LOVE these books and I am slowly building my classroom library with lots of STEP 2 and STEP 3 books. I love that they are based off characters and things our children love, this makes them more engaging and fun! They even have non fiction books. I highly recommend these books!

Please click on the link below to find a very useful guide to the Step into Reading series. These books are designed to be interesting for your young reader, and usually cost less than 5 dollars a book! First graders can read level 2 and 3 books (with support)!
Step into Reading: Levels
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Thank you for stopping by, Check back daily to stay connected!

K. Bowes