Grandson

Just a quick picture of my new grandson.  I will be posting pictures of our school pumpkins in the next few days.  Have a great break.

Bats, Bats, Bats

We have been working on Bats.  The kids made the cutest bats and we hung them in a cave on the outside bulletin board.  It is so cute to hear their reactions, every day, as they walk by the board.  We had lots of bat related activities to go along with the art project.

Some important news:

* Today, Thursday,  is the district wide disaster drill.  The kiddos will be out on the playground for about an hour.  A paper went home yesterday talking about it.

*  Parent conferences start tomorrow, 10/19.  Students get out of school at 12:19, tomorrow and all of next week.

*  We go off track on 10/26 and return the Monday - after Thanksgiving.

*  My new grand baby is due any day now.  If she doesn't have him this weekend - they will induce her on Monday night.

 

Assessments

Our Language Arts assessments are now finished.  It took a little longer than usual.  Part of the assessment is whole group and the other part is individual.  It takes awhile to test all 29 students.   Overall, the kids did great.  This week we start our Math District Assessment, which is whole group.  I will, probably, not get to do sight word testing for a few days.  Thank you for being patient.  Your kids rock.

Monet

We are very lucky that our PTA pays for our "Art Smarts" program.  I am very grateful to them, because I feel like this is a wonderful program that benefits our school.  This time the kiddos learned about Monet.  The finished products were wonderful.  I am so happy  I took pictures of the steps.

Update

I am sorry, that I have been missing, but both computers at home - crashed.  It is really hard to update from my iPad and the pictures were on my computer.  I can't believe that it is already Week 9 of school.  Three more weeks - we have parent conferences and then we are on break.  Here are a few picture updates.

Our "No David" projects discussing our class rules.

First Day of First Grade writing.  These will come home at the end of the year, they are in a class book.

"Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom"

"Mary Wore Her Red Dress", another class book. 

Love this hat.

These are adorable.

All About Me projects.

Thank you for sharing your children with me, I adore my class.