Wednesday, April 21, 2010

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

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

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

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

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!

Thursday, February 18, 2010

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

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

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

Sunday, January 3, 2010

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