Ms. Schmalzer's First Grade

Hello, Next week Wednesday, May 30th, is our Community Field Trip.  Thank you to all who volunteered to join us! For those of you who aren’t able to join us all day, we will be eating lunch at 12:00 at Horseshoe Park.  If you have some time, feel free to stop down and join us! We know that this is a later lunch than usual for first graders but we will be eating several snacks on our stop at the Piggly Wiggly in the morning.  We are excited to learn more about our community and celebrate a fun year in first grade! Important Dates: May 22nd: Family Night May 25th and 28th: No School May 30th: 1st Grade Community Walking Field Trip June 4th: Wear bright colors and sunglasses June 5th: Dress Active June 5th: Field Day June 6th: B E you! Wear whatever makes you, YOU! :) June 6th: Last Day/Early Release Reading: In reading this week we are continuing to talk about becoming a lifelong reader. This week we will talk about recommending books that you love, finding lifelo

Hello, We have another busy week.  It's the last 5 day week...how is that possible?!?  Checkout the pictures from our market last week! Important Dates: May 18th: Permission Slip and Lunch Form Due back with $2 May 22nd: Family Night May 25th and 28th: No School May 30th: 1st Grade Community Walking Field Trip June 5th: Field Day June 6th: Last Day/Early Release Reading: In reading this week we will be starting our last reading unit! We will be talking about what makes a lifelong reader. We started today will reorganizing our libraries and talking about how they could do the same at home! We will continue this week with learning about setting goals for ourselves, collecting books we love, and ending with getting our readers notebooks to be able to write more and more about our reading. Writing: In writing this week we are continuing with our writing projects. We will be learning about how writers get ready to publish and then publish one o

Hello, Here are some summer/warm weather reading tips from our reading specialist Mrs Steif! Keep books in the car so the kids can read while traveling. Keep a bag of books handy to grab before leaving to watch a sibling play a sport. “Stream” a series - check out books in a series from the library. Play “Book Club” - set up a book club as part of a play date. Try organizing your books at home into fun categories like: Book that make you LOL, Gross Things, Tear Jerkers, Books that Make you Laugh, Family Favorites…. Set a goal for number of books to read or number of pages to read and keep track. Read to a younger neighbor, sibling or friend. Partner-read with an adult. **Look for the field trip form coming home for the end of the school year trip! May 7th: PSC Meeting May 18th: Permission Slip and Lunch Form Due back with $2 May 22nd: Family Night May 25th and 28th: No School May 30th: 1st Grade Community Walking Field Trip Reading: In reading

Hello, Here comes May! I am hoping the weather cooperates and we keep getting those warmer temps. I am going to be sending home all winter gear that is still in their lockers: snow pants, boots, mittens, hats, etc. Be on the lookout for those. If you are still missing items please check out the school's lost and found, there are a lot of items in there! Upcoming Events: May 7th: PSC Meeting May 22nd: Family Night May 25th and 28th: No School May 30st: 1st Grade Field Trip Reading: In reading this week we are continuing to work in our nonfiction book clubs. We will be talking about how we can compare the books that we are studying. In our books we will also mark expert words in the text and think about what they mean. We will be ending the week with talking about how to present to our groups, how when we read them something we wrote about our books we use an expert voice. Writing: In writing this week we are continuing our writing projects. Students are starting to write

Hello, Have you heard?!? We won highest percentage of KAT questions correct!  Our class won a pizza party.  When the details are figured out, I will let you know.  The final Fangs are due for the reading club.  I will accept them until Thursday if you still have them at home. Upcoming Events: April 26th: Dress Like a Movie Star May 7th: PSC Meeting May 22nd: Family Night May 25th and 28th: No School Reading: In reading this week we are continuing with nonfiction book clubs. We are learning how we can learn together, how to learn as much as you can from each section, and how to retell the most important things you learn. Writing: Writing topics have been chosen! We have a range of topics that students are going to be working on in the next few weeks. Ranging from songs and poem to brochures and posters. Ask your child what they chose to study! Word Study:  We are working in unit 10.  We are working with words that have multiple syllables and more than one blend in them.

Happy KAT Week!  Please continue to practice the questions at home.  Friday morning students will be asked to answer them. There will be prizes for the classroom with the most answers correct!  Upcoming Events: April 10: No School April 9-13 KAT Week  (See below for dress up days) April 13: KAT   KAT Celebration Dance 6:00-8:00 April 18: Field Trip April 19: Family Night April 20: Wear Green and Blue to celebrate Earth Day April 26: Dress like a Movie Star Lunch Change: April 19th: # 1 is a walking taco not a soft shell taco If you are able to volunteer to help with snacks at the dance on Friday night.  Here is the link: http://signup.com/go/SVDqrWT The knowledge-a-thon is on Friday, April 13! That means the week of there will be dress up days! Student council came up with days that spelled out KAT! Monday, April 9= K- "Kozy" day- wear PJs or comfy clothes (there is no school Tuesday) Wednesday, April 11= A- "Answer" - dress like an answer to a ka

April (Snow) Showers bring… Let’s just hope that this is the last of the snow!  As long as the ground is wet and we have some snow I encourage you to send snow pants and/or boots.  Their shoes get pretty wet at recess and it’s much better for us to have clean shoes in the classroom.  Thank you!  Upcoming Events: April 10: No School April 9-13 KAT Week  (See below for dress up days) April 13: KAT April 18: Field Trip April 19: Family Night April 20: Wear Green and Blue to celebrate Earth Day April 26: Dress like a Movie Star The knowledge-a-thon is on Friday, April 13! That means the week of there will be dress up days! Student council came up with days that spelled out KAT! Monday, April 9= K- "Kozy" day- wear PJs or comfy clothes (there is no school Tuesday) Wednesday, April 11= A- "Answer" - dress like an answer to a kat question Thursday, April 12= T- "Teacher" -dress like a teacher Friday, April 13= Dress like your grade's assigned