Kentucky Kids Day!

Tuesday was Kentucky Kids Day and 1st grade celebrated big time! We had popcorn and kool-aid while we drew illustrations. All of the students got to take home play-dough and of course no day in 1st grade is complete without getting a little messy. We played with shaving cream and the students LOVED it! Here are some pictures from my class.

                                                                                                                           Ms. Bale

 

 

 

Thank You!

We just wanted to take a second and say "Thank you" for all of your support! Your child's success is truly a team effort and we're excited to see what all 1st grade can accomplish this year. (And, thank you to everyone who came out to Open House! It's always good to see and talk to you.)

Ms. Bale, Mrs. Palmer & Ms. Schwager

Reading Tips for Home

With the first 4 weeks behind us we wanted to share a couple of great resources to help give you ideas for working with your child at home. These links are specifically geared towards reading.


Reading Tips at Home (This link gives ideas about reading at home, in general.)


Reading Fluency Tips (This link gives some ideas on strategies to use when a child gets "stuck" on a word they don't know. Hint: This would be great to help with our reading homework!)


We hope these ideas help support your little readers! Have a great weekend.

Ms. Schwager, Mrs. Palmer & Ms. Bale

Labor Day Week!

This week was a wonderful one at the Creek! We have been working hard with writing about Social Studies topics. We are currently publishing our writing on a video that we will post soon on the blog! (Ms. Bale and Ms. Schwager will post theirs too!) In reading we have been having fun learning to retell a story. We have discussed why telling a story in the correct sequence, or order, is important. Ask your kiddos and listen to what they have to say! In math, we have successfully complete reading, writing, and counting to 120. We have also completed learning about place value. This week we began addition. The kiddos learned the Sums of Ten by creating a rainbow to help remember the equations fluently. Ask them to draw it for you at home! You will see it this coming week in the homework packet. On Friday we even had a mini Math Bee to practice adding within 10. The kids had a blast! Below are a couple videos of what the Math Bee looked like in my classroom. I was so proud of their effort and cheering on their classmates!

Mrs. Palmer