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Thursday, November 24, 2011

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Thank you for coming to the Thanksgiving performance. It was so nice to see everyone and meet so many family members. I wish you all a safe and happy holiday season!

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Thanksgiving Program

Just a reminder...The Thanksgiving performance is tomorrow - Monday, November 21, 2011 at 2:15 p.m. Hope to see you then!

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

October 2011






















Mrs. Reiss as a firewoman.
















Looking good little firefighters!















Thanks to Duane and Jeff for teaching us about fire safety.



2011-2012 1st grade class















































Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Word Journey "Teacher/Student" practice





















Math Game



Spin the top spinner, spin the bottom spinner, then subtract.

Purple Hands Pledge



I will not use my hands or my words to hurt myself or others.

Social Studies play about Friendship













Shaving Cream Writing



We have fun practicing our words and cleaning our desktops at the same time!

Monday, October 10, 2011

October 2011

First Grade Parents,
Please ignore what I said about putting pictures on Facebook. We will try the blog for a little bit and see if we like it. I will be posting pictures and messages here rather than sending a paper copy home. If I have your correct email address, then you should have received an email to follow my blog and it should notify you as soon as I post something new.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

April News

First Grade Parents, I have created a Facebook page for our 1st grade classroom. If you would like to be a FB friend of ours just "friend" me as "Ricke Writes". I can post a lot more pictures on FB than I can on my blog site.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

World Read Aloud Day - Famous Guest Reader


Along with discussing and writing all about why reading is important to us, we had a "famous" guest reader. Scott read us the story, "The Wolf Who Cried Boy". Everyone enjoyed listening to Scott read. Thank you, Scott for taking time out of your busy day to read to us!
Here is a list of "Things We Read" that we came up with during journaling time. Good thinking 1st graders!
books, newspapers, signs, magazines, comic strips, maps, math directions, cards, labels, medicine, names, money, calendar, music, shirts, cookbook, recipes, menus, school words, phonebook, dictionary, announcements, letters, video games, posters and movie titles.
Hard to believe that over 1 billion people entered the 21st Century unable to read and write. Wow! Going to school and learning to read and write is a wonderful privilege that we Americans have!:)

First Grade Informance









Nicely done, 1st graders! You have sure learned a lot of important musical concepts. I enjoyed watching all of you! Great smiles:)

6th Grade Buddy Read













We were given clues by our 6th grade friends to try and figure out who our reading buddy was. We had a lot of fun reading the clues and guessing. We met our buddies, read with them, then got to play with them at recess! We had so much fun! Thank you 6th graders!


Word Journeys



Here we are practicing our word journey words during group time.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Take Care of Your Teeth

Mr. Erickson showed us the proper way to brush and floss our teeth. He also gave us all new toothbrushes! Thanks, Mr. Erickson!! Ask your child about our "tooth" experiment - YUCK!

Patriotic Windsocks








These students are weaving paper strips to make Patriotic windsocks. They are now hanging around the room.


Counting Money

We all worked cooperatively together to solve math problems with money.









Tuesday, February 22, 2011

School Supplies Needed

Hi Parents, please check with your child. Several students are needing pencils and crayons. Thank you:)

Monday, February 21, 2011

Calendar Time


Good job on the Calendar, Menley!

Valentine Party

Abby and Faith

Peyton and Blake

Happy Valentine's Day





Field Trip To Ames

Front row seats in Stephens Auditorium!

Enjoying sack lunches in the lobby.
The wheels on the bus go round and round...


We all enjoyed the three plays on books by Mercer Mayer.

Guided Reading Books

As of February 14, 2011 I will no longer be sending Guided Reading books home to be read and signed. If anyone has any guided reading books at home, please send them back to school with your child. Thanks!

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

2011 New Year's Resolutions

Our New Year's resolutions as written and spelled by the 1st graders. Enjoy:)

My New Year's Resolution is:

to work on geting up in the morning. - Blake
to git beter at wesltting. - Joshua
to exercise more. - Kolten
keep my room clean. - Aiden
try to ceep my room cleend. - Faith
to prakis baskuball morn. - Owen
to be betr at climeing trees. - Ashton
chanching pawer cor cuBiner. - Hunter
to learning to do math better. - Madie
to get better at hellping Mom with the daycare. - Menley
to pick up my toys when I am done playing with them. - Ellie
to get bettter at back rolls. - Claire
to be a Betr ritter. - Josie
to keep the toyroom clean becuase it is a mess. - Abby
doing cratwheels Bettr. - Caitlyn
to get better at my hand writing. - Peyton
to do flips. - Isabel
to eat less sugar, exercise more, and keep the kitchen clean. - Mrs. Ricke