Miss Corya's Classroom Connections

Friday, March 1, 2013

For the Parents

Hello Parents! This blog is for the students but also for you parents! I feel that it is important for parents to be involved in their child's learning. This blog will keep you up to date on what we are learning in class, our schedule, and it was let you know what events are coming up! This blog also allows students to see what their homework is, to watch videos and view pictures to help them in their learning, and play interactive learning games!

I'm excited to get to know all of you parents and to work with you towards the success of our students! Feel free to contact me at any time by email. I'm excited about the possibilities for the students this year!

"Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."
Plato

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http://www.positivityblog.com/index.php/2007/04/20/21-inspirational-quotes-on-education/

The Life Cycle of a Butterfly

In science, we learned about the life cycle of a butterfly. Next week we are going to have a class caterpillar and we will watch the process of how it turns into a butterfly! In case students have forgotten what we learned, here is a picture of a butterfly's life cycle.

Watch this video of a monarch butterfly and it's process of turning into a butterfly from a caterpillar.

After watching this video, draw a picture of the life cycle of a butterfly. Also, come up with three questions about the life cycle of a butterfly.

Bring these two things to school on Wednesday.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AUeM8MbaIk

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Star Student

Meet Kaden! Kaden is the Star Student of the week! He does the right thing without being asked, tries his hardest on everything he does, and helps students who are struggling.

Kaden enjoys being a boy scout, spending time outdoors, camping, and exploring!

Kaden is interested in dinosaurs, collecting baseball cards and in Star Wars.

Ribbet is Kaden's pet frog that he caught whom he loves dearly; Ribbet got Kaden interested in Science which is his now Kaden's favorite school subject. Kaden is an awesome student; get to know him!

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Field Trip for Social Studies

We will be covering five main topics in social studies this year. These topics include: History, Civics and Government, Geography, Economics, and Individuals, Society, and Culture. All of these topics will be broken down to a first grade level that can be understood by the students. The first thing our class will study is what the word community means. We will look at what community we live in, and how we each fit into our community around us. After that we will view how other communities around the world interact, and how we each fit into those communities.

We will be taking a field trip to our town hall in two weeks on Wednesday, October 10. Touring the town hall will allow the students to see an aspect of our community and ask questions about it as well. I will be sending home a field trip permission slip this week which is due October 1. We will need at least four adults to accompany our field trip. If you are interested in chaperoning, indicate so on the permission slip. Let's go explore our community!

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The Daily Schedule

For parents and students, it helps to know what is going on throughout the school day.

7:50-8:10                         Check in, morning work, attendance, lunch count

8:10-8:55                         Specials

8:55-9:45                         Social Studies/Science

9:45-11:15                   90 Minute Block

   9:45-10:15                  Word Workshop/Grammar/Vocabulary
    10:15-10:30                 Self-Selected Reading
    10:30-11:20                 Guided Reading

11:20-11:50                     Recess/Lunch

11:50-12:00                     Teacher Read Aloud

12:00-12:45         Math Fluency Lesson and Math Practice

12:45-1:15                       Writing

1:15-1:50                         Tier Groups

1:50-2:20                         Success(Students go to ability grouping)

2:20                                 Dismissal: Chairs up, clean under desks, get backpack and coats, line up

2:25                                 Walk students to their drop-off zones

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Magical Math

This year in math we will be accomplishing counting to 120 and learning our shapes. Our major goals for the year arelearning how to add and do

simple subtraction. We will work on adding double digit numbers depending on how the

students are doing adding simple problems. Another large focus for math this year is

addition word problems. Math activities and games will be used as a teaching technique to

engage the students.

Math is often hard for students so to increase their success and learning, it is important to practice math facts at home. A fun game that helps with addition and subtraction facts is called Dice Math Facts. You take two dice and roll them both; whatever two numbers get rolled are either added or subtracted together! There can be two players that take turns and whoever gets the most problems correct at the end of the game wins! Practice practice!

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Spelling

Our class will be starting out with sight words as spelling words because these words are essential to learning how to read. Sight words are the words that cannot be sounded out but instead, have to be recognized in the text from sight instead. Spelling tests will be every Friday; the students will be tested on List #1 next Friday.

List #1