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Welcome to my blog! I am blessed to be a first grade teacher at a wonderful school in Jacksonville Florida. I graduated from the University of North Florida in December of 2009 and I have been in the classroom since January 2010. I am a Pittsburgh girl at heart but I have loved spending the last 8 years of my life in Jacksonville! I enjoy spending my weekends at the beach with friends, or reading a good book at home. Last year I adopted a puppy from the Humane Society and I couldn't love her any more! She is a hound mix named Leigha. She loves to take naps while I pinterest and do school work :)

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Sunny D Book Spree

Sunny D is offering a great chance to get books for our classroom! Just save the UPC lables from the eligible products, send them into school and I will enter the codes. Once we get 20 codes, we can get 20 books!!!

Please see this site for full details!
http://www.sunnyd.com/bookspree/Eligible-Products-UPCs.aspx

Thanks :)

First pictures of the year!

I finally have a camera for school and I the means to post the pictures! Here are a few pictures from Math Investigations this week. We got to explore the different math tools we'll be using often in first grade!

Geoblocks

Cubes



Pattern Blocks
  



Check back for more pictures! I will try to upload them as often as possible so you can see whats going on in our classroom :)

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Did you notice?

Today I added your child's student number to the inside of their homework folder. This number is important when sending in lunch money! Writing this number on the lunch money envelope helps make sure the money makes it to the right place! :)

Sight words are in the back of your child's homework folder, I hope you have been studying them all week! I will be testing students on Friday. Remember.. students do not need to spell these words, they just need to be able to read them to me!

Monday, August 22, 2011

Feels so good to be back! :)

WOWWIE WOW! What a day! We we certainly busy today! I enjoyed starting to get to know my new students and I can tell it's going to be a good one!

Forgot to mention snack to parents, so we didn't get to snack today.. but we're covered for tomorrow! Good snack ideas would be: goldfish, pretzles, crackers, fruit snacks...

Thank you everyone for the supplies! :) We have enough tissues to last protect a first grade army! We could still use some disinfection wipes (clorox, lysol...) to keep our classroom clean and germ free!!

Homework and Book in the Bag won't start until next week but start studying sight words. The list is in the back of the homework folder. Please get in the routine of checking your child's homework folder for important information and also sign the behavior grade on the calendar. If your chlid writes me a sentence or two about their first days of school they will earn a free trip to the treasure box!

Thank you again for a great first day, I am so blessed to work with your children :)

K. Bowes

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Welcome Back!

I am so excited to start off this new school year! It has been a great summer but I am get back in school and meet all my new students. I look forward to meeting everyone at Orientation August 19 @ 1:45 and Open House September 8th @6:30! Please check back for up up to date classroom information and pictures!