Week of 19 - 23

Here are the topics we will be covering in class this week:

Social Studies - Earth Day
Math - Area/Perimeter
Science - Recycling/Earth Day
Spelling - (Word Family -ow & contractions) how, cow, down, don't, it's, won't, but, there, more, have


Also, this week your child is bringing home a special family assignment. Since Thursday is Earth Day we are asking 1st grade to take some of their everyday trash and recycle items from home and turn them into a magnificent piece of art or something that can be used in our everyday lives.

Thanks for all you do!
Ms. Crosswhite

Week of April 12 -16

I hope everyone is having a great week! We will begin to work on our Earth Day t-shirts later in the week!

What we are Learning this week!
Reading and Writing: Word Choice and Sentence Fluency; Poetry
Math: Measurement-length
Science: Butterflies
Social Studies: Recycling

Upcoming Events:April 13: Mobile Dairy Farm at 10:15 behind the library
April 16: Robertson Round-up at 2:15
April 22: PTA Meeting at 7:00pm

Thanks for all you do!
Ms. Crosswhite

Week of March 1st

THIS WEEK WE ARE LEARNING:
L.A.: adding endings to words (-s, -ed, -ing)
Writing: ocean projects
Spelling: make, cake, flake, bike, hike, strike, her, go, him, made
Challenge words: likeness, pancake, second, state, plankton
Math: time, math assessment
Science: ocean, science assessment

Have a great week!

Week of: February 16th

The weather has been crazy the last few weeks! I am so glad we are back to normal here at school. Once Again, thank you to all of you that donated for the Valentine's party and to those parents that were able to come and help. It was a fun time! The kiddos and I had a blast making their shirts! I hope you liked them. They will be a great memory. We have already started adding more to our portfolios for Open House. It isn't far away.

This week we are learning:

Reading - Story maps and thinking maps during guided reading

Writing - Letter writing and Review

S.S. - Maps, Black History Month and Presidents

Science - Oceans and research for our Ocean study

Math - Learning all the coins and starting to count pennies and nickels

Week of Jan. 4th

This week we are learning:

Reading- Assessments through the end of January

Math- Place Value, Fact Families, and Missing Addends (review)

Writing - Poetry (acrostic poems) and Word Choice

Science - Rocks

S.S. - Review

I hope everyone is having a GREAT week! We are back in the swing of things and guided reading books will be coming home again this week. Please send your package of white t-shirts when you can. We will be starting our Valentine t-shirts soon!

Birthdays this month:

MJ turns 7

Ms. Crosswhite turns 21 :o)

Have a great week!

Ms. C

Week of Jan. 4th

Hi Everyone-

Believe it or not... I HAVE MISSED YOUR KIDDOS!!! I am so excited to see them tomorrow! We are going to be starting reading assessments this next week and they will be lasting through the end of the month. 9 week reports will be coming out towards the end of the month as well. If I feel we need a conference, I will let you know. Tutoring will resume on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7:15 am. I will post our learning objectives for this week on Tuesday.

I am looking forward to a GREAT NEW YEAR!!! Please contact me if you need anything!

crosswhc@friscoisd.org

Have a great week!

Ms. C

Week of November 9th

Wow... What beautiful weather we are having!!! It just makes learning more fun outside.  We will be doing some lessons outside this week. Make sure that you send a jacket with your child to school.  We will also be taking our first science assessment this week.  I can assure you that I have prepared your child to the fullest.  The book fair will be starting next week.  Please look below for our days to go preview and buy at the book fair.  

This week we are learning:

Reading: Questioning and Story Elements

Writing: Organization in our stories

S.S. - Cardinal Directions (North, South, East, and West)

Science: Parts to a whole (Objects must have all their parts to work)

Math: Fact Families (3+4=7, 4+3=7, 7- 4=3, 7 - 3=4)

PLEASE MAKE SURE TO SEND YOUR package of 5 white t-shirts!!!!! If you would like to donate a package, that would be great!  We need size Youth Medium and Youth Large.

BOOK FAIR DAYS FOR OUR CLASS:

Preview day - Thursday, November 12th

Buying day - Monday, November 16th

Thanks for all you do to support our class and Robertson Elementary!!!!