Math Blog, Book Level App & a "Frozen" Sharpen the Saw

I hope all of our first graders and their families have had a great weekend and are sharpening the saw! Mrs. Palmer, Ms. Schwager and I wanted to make sure our parents knew about a couple of great resources for reinforcing math and reading content at home. Thanks to JCPS there is a blog that gives you "how to" videos, apps & computer games that will help with practicing 1st grade math skills at home. We hope you take advantage of this great resource! Just click on the link below.

JCPS First Grade Math Blog

There is also a GREAT app that is made my Scholastic called Bookwizard. This app helps you choose books that are on your child's reading level. All you have to do is scan the book and it will list the DRA level (reading level) for that book. (It will also list other reading levels but look for the one that says DRA. That is the program we use to test their reading level.)

Click below to access the Book Wizard app or website.

Scholastic Book Wizard App


Scholastic Book Wizard Website

I also wanted to share a video from a few weeks ago during Sharpen the Saw. We worked our minds by doing seek and finds & listened to Disney music. Frozen's "Let It Go" came on and let's just say the students sure showed off their singing abilities. Enjoy!


                                                                                                                                 Ms. Bale

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

Welcome to First Grade!

Hi and welcome to our very first "Mill Creek First Grade" website! Mrs. Palmer, Ms. Schwager and I are VERY excited to be able to share some things that we'll be doing this year in First Grade.

When you visit our blog this year you will find pictures and videos of all of our students hard at work. We will also share some things about each of our classes throughout the year. It is just another way for you to see what your child is learning and doing each day when they come to school. We hope you enjoy reading about not only your child but some of their classmates, as well. Keep checking back for more updates from myself, Ms. Schwager or Mrs. Palmer! I'll leave you with a video of some of my students during Reading where they had to act out a scenario and the class had to guess the setting of the scenario. They all did such a great job!

(And yes, that is all of us at Mrs. Palmer's wedding last October! It's wonderful when your teammates become some of your greatest friends.)

Ms. Bale