Week of September 5, 2016

It has been three fantastic weeks of first grade! We are already on day 12! We are still working on procedures and rules, and everyone is trying their best. We're still getting used to the longer day of first grade, and getting better each day. :)

It has been warming up after lunchtime the last few days, therefore students need to drink more water. I allow water bottles on student's desk, unless it becomes a toy. Please feel free to bring a water bottle from home.

Today I sent home homework packet #2. For the Weekly Book Report, please always use a book of your choice. The first one, we used the same book in class for example purposes.

Today we had our first PE Class with Coach Sierra. Ask your child how they liked it. We will have PE with Coach Sierra every Thursday.

Next week, I will start some of our assessments with the children for Math and Reading.

If you haven't checked out our First Grade Webpage, please do. There is a lot of information on our First Grade Information Page.

Just a reminder, there is no school Friday 9/2 and Monday 9/5. Have a wonderful Labor Day Weekend.

Week of August 29, 2016 (homework examples)

Dear families,

It was nice to meet all of you at Back To School Night.  Feel free to email me or stop by after school if you have further questions.  Thank you for all that you have signed up for - to help our class this year!  I know each of you are busy in work and home life, your help makes a BIG difference in our class! 

I apologize for the lengthy email but I wanted to mention a few more things at Back-to-School Night:

We will begin the Recess 101 PE (funded by the AVHSC) with Coach Sierra on Thursday.  Please be sure your child is wearing sneakers and comfortable clothing. 

On Mondays we will take a Spelling Pre-test and on Fridays we will have our Spelling Test.  We practiced our first Pre-test today.

We had our first meeting with our 4th Grade (Miss Saba’s class) Buddies.  We will meet together on Friday mornings for about 20 minutes.

Homework Packet no.1 was sent home today.  It will be due on Thursday, September 1st or Tuesday, September 6th.  Your child may do the pages in the order of his/her or your choice.  Today, we spent some time working on the packet, I will post some pictures with examples on our blog. The last page of the packet is a Book Report and Word of the Week page; I will collect and keep these to make a book for each child at the end of the year.   

The week of September 12th, we will start our BEAR SHARE (Sharing).  I updated the schedule and assignments on our classroom web page and attached the schedule to your BTSN packet.

The week of September 26^th, we will begin Special Person of The Week.  The schedule is on our web page and a copy is in your BTSN packet.

**Students may have water bottles on their desk throughout the school day.  However, please do not send juice or sports drinks for inside the classroom.

As a safety precaution classroom doors are locked during the day.  If you are coming to school to volunteer, please sign in at the office to get a sticker badge (even if it makes you a minute late to help). 

If you haven’t done so already, please fill out the online AVHSC Volunteer and communication distribution.  Here is the AVHSC website with the links: http://www.unionsd.org/page/343

Attached is our weekly newsletter, some things change throughout the week, but we are usually on course.

Have a restful weekend!

     

Week of August 22

What a great first week of school!  Your first grader has been learning many new routines for room 1 and rules for the primary playground.  Your child is probably feeling a bit tired after school due to transitioning to a longer school day and getting back to a school schedule.  It usually takes a few weeks, but they'll feel better adjusted soon!

I usually send home a Bear Print Weekly Newsletter via email, if you need a hard copy, please let me know.  I will also post a copy to our Class webpage.  Which is under Classroom Pages, then under First Grade.

Wednesday I sent home your child’s Emergency Contact Information sheet.  Please review and make any necessary changes.  Then sign the front top, bottom & review the back as well.  Please return this ASAP so the office has any updates.

I will send home our 1st weekly homework packet on Friday, August 26^th and it will be due the following week.  Homework is usually due on Fridays, however because of the long weekend, please return this first packet on either Thursday, September 1^st or Tuesday, September 6^th.

August 24th is Back to School Night for Parents.  We will meet in room 1, at 6:00 pm to go over First Grade throughout the year.  After our meeting, there is a Principal's Welcome and AV Home and School Club meeting in the Cafeteria from 6:45-7:15.  If you have children in 4^th or 5^th grade, their classroom presentations will begin at 7:15.

Thank you for sending me your email addresses!  If you need to add or eliminate any addresses, please let me know.  Here is the link to my form bit.ly/BergmansBears1617

I hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Art Vistas Art Show

Here's a sneak peak of the Art Vistas Art Show.  Hope you can make it tonight from 5:30-8:00pm.  There will be refreshments and a scavenger hunt!

Sailing into Summer ... soon.

Open House

The students have been working hard in room 1.  :)

Country Report

The class worked together on a Sample Country Report.  We chose the United States of America.  

We used the Ducksters Website (http://www.ducksters.com/geography/) to find out most of the information.  

It did not list the President, so that might require some extra searching, if you don't already know who it is.

To find out the distance from your city to the country's capital, we used maps.google.com.

For the flag, we found an image online and printed it out.

I hope you enjoy researching a country of your choice.