August 4, 2008

Hello Parents, Students, and Friends!

Our class website is finally up and running. I’m sorry it has taken so long to get going but I had get back the parent release form from every student before I could start publishing pictures and information.

The first few weeks of first grade have been quite eventful. Besides an earthquake during our lunch-break (which the students handled very responsibly), we have been learning classroom routines, painting, hearing stories, getting to know one-another, and LEARNING TO READ!!! I love teaching first grade because I get to see the magic of learning to read light up students’ lives. Please do your part at home and listen to your child practice their decodable books EVERY night and also read to them nightly so that they will be encouraged to read on their own.

Congratulations to our July students of the month. This is an especially high honor as they are the first students from the class to receive such an honor and therefor demonstrated characteristics of a successful student right from the start of the year. Our citizen of the month, Marcela Casarrubias was chosen because she is respectful to her teachers and peers, always listening and following directions the first time given. Angel Rocha, was our scholar of the month because he has dedicated himself to learning his first grade sight words and to passing his decodable books right away. I’m so proud of both of them! (I’m sad to post that Angel has since moved and is no longer in our class).

It was a pleasure getting to know Dalia this past week, as she was our friend of the week. The students interviewed her, wrote a book for her, wrote an acrostic poem about her, and illustrated her. She kindly shared pictures of herself with us, as well as many of her likes and dislikes. I look forward to getting to know all of the students better when they are the friend of the week.

Please check out our photo album!

Welcome, Parents!

Hello parents, please make sure you sign and return the Photo Release Form that I sent with your child, which will allow me to publish his/her pictures in our class website. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Hola padres de familia, por favor asegurense de devolver el formulario “Photo Release”, el cual me permitira publicar imagenes de su hijo(a) en nuestra pagina de internet. Por favor dejenme saber si tienen alguna pregunta.