Last Day of School!

Hi!

I am feel so blessed to have been your child's teacher this year. I have been teaching for 7 years and this was my first year in first grade. I can honestly say that first grade has been my favorite! I am so proud of all my students' growth both academically and in their character development. I will miss each and everyone of my students. Thank you for a successful year and thank you for being wonderful parents. Enjoy the time with your little ones this summer! I have included lots of books for them to read over the summer in their Summer Bags!

Have a WONDERFUL SUMMER!
~Mrs. Estrada

P.S. Anyone who didn't receive their report card can pick them up in the school office.

Monday 06/17/13

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This is the last week of school!!!! Therefore, there are no spelling words, sight words, and homework. However, I do encourage you to continue to read with your child every night!

Also, we have a case of head lice in our classroom. Please check your child's head!

Thanks! 

Tuesday 06/11/13

Hi! Please make sure your child completes their homework every night. With the weather getting warmer and the year coming to an end we have had poor homework return. Students who consistently fail to complete homework will have the opportunity to catch up during Friday's Fun Fair. We are so close to the end, just a couple of more days of hard work! 

Thanks!
Mrs. Estrada 

Spelling: 10 sentences

Math: Worksheet

Reading: Practice reading and practice sight words 

Monday 06/10/13

Hi!

Our last full week of school!!! These are our last Spelling words for the year!

Spelling: 4 times each
Green: witch, screech, coach, which, beach, speech, hutch, torch, gulch, bench, fetch, rich, much, teach, peach, pitch, sketch, branch, match, crunch, munch.

Red: join, spoil, joy, joint, soil, oil, coin, boil, broil, soy, coil, moist, toy

Blue: coat, gym, cub, germ, cease, gem, corn, cent, guess, guide, calf, game, guest, cell, cart, goose, code, golf, gist

Math: worksheet on money

Reading: practice sight words (same as last week) and practice reading

Tuesday 06/04/13

Hi! The children had a blast at the museum! It was so much fun and lots of hands on learning. Special THANKS to our chaperones for spending the day with us and making sure everyone had fun and stayed safe!

Tomorrow is the Awards’ Assembly at 1:15 in the gym: Celebrating students who have had Citizenship and Perfect Attendance throughout the year 

(students needed to have Citizenship Award 3 out of the 4 quarters and/or Perfect Attendance all year to receive medal)!

Spelling: 10 sentences

Math: workbook page 

Phonics: workbook page

Reading: practice sight words and practice reading

Monday 06/03/13

Tomorrow is  our Field Trip to Chicago Children’s Museum! Students should wear jeans and a Columbia Explorers Academy shirt. 
Don’t forget to bring a pack lunch (no glass or containers to avoid students needing to carry these items around). Lunches should be in a plastic bag with name clearly labeled.

Students should wear jeans and a Columbia Explorers Academy shirt. Don’t forget to bring a pack lunch (no glass or containers to avoid students needing to carry these items around). 

Chaperones for our trip are; Regina’s dad, Kiara’s dad, Kylie’s mom, Eliza’s mom, and David’s dad (meet us in front of the office at (9:00am).

Spelling: 4 Times Each

Blue: lightweight, headfirst, downstairs, snowflake, bookmark, downtown, bookworm, snowstorm, daylight, headlight, snowplow, flashlight, headphones, downpour, cookbook, sunlight, headstrong, snowball, scrapbook, countdown

Green/Yellow: badge, charge, stage, rage, ridge, surge, range, judge, cage, huge, fudge, change, dodge, page, sponge, bridge, bulge

Red: trot, club, sled, fret, plot, bled, slug, plum, dress, cross, drum, pug, frog, drug, slob, truck, slot

Math: workbook page

Reading: practice reading and practice sight-words (follow, suddenly, sure, idea, comes, own, excited, lonely, busy alone)

Important June Dates and Information

Dear Parents,

The end of the school year is around the corner! Here are some important dates and information to keep in mind.

Tuesday, June 4^th : Field Trip to Chicago Children’s Museum! Students should wear jeans and a Columbia Explorers Academy shirt. Don’t forget to bring a pack lunch (no glass or containers to avoid students needing to carry these items around). Chaperones for our trip are; Regina’s dad, Kiara’s dad, Kylie’s mom, Eliza’s mom, and David’s dad (meet us in front of the office at (9:00am).

Wednesday, June 5^th: Awards’ Assembly at 1:15 in the gym: Celebrating students who have had Citizenship and Perfect Attendance throughout the year (students needed to have Citizenship Award 3 out of the 4 quarters and/or Perfect Attendance all year to receive medal)!

Thursday, June 6^th: Pizza Party! We will have a class pizza party, please send a healthy drink with your child so they can have during our pizza party!

Friday, June 6^th:  International Night! Our performance will be around 6:30pm. I will be out during the school day to attend my little sister’s graduation from Medical School! However, I will be back for our big performance. I would like all students to meet me in our classroom at 6:00 so we can practice a couple of times before we take the stage. Please dress your child in Jamaica colors. Nice jeans/skirts with tops of red, yellow, green or black (think Jamaica beach wear). Immediately, after our class performance please pick-up your child from our Classroom #104, since the courtyard will be full with lots of people.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Estrada 

Thursday 05/30/13

Hi!

Please make sure to send your child to school these next few days to practice for June 7th's assembly. We have exactly 30 students, so everyone has their partner and things get a bit more challenging when someone is missing. 

Here is the link for music to practice at home :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZR3ZfesIIw


Homework:
Spelling: rainbow write and spelling practice test

Math: worksheet

Phonics: Worksheet

Reading: practice sight words and practice reading! 

We started our practice for the International Night Assembly. Tonight the children learned the introduction so they were asked to practice and practice and practice. The assembly is June 7th (Friday evening) time has yet to be confirmed. 

You can you tube the song "Jump in the Line" to get the music for the show!

Also, please make sure that your child is completely their homework every night. We only have 15 more school days left and I would hate for some students' grades to drop because of incomplete homework (specifically spelling). 

Homework:

Spelling: 10 sentences

Red: just, mask, lost, soft, must, melt, list, fast, fist, raft, gift, cost, desk, tusk, past, dust, half, best, milk, lift, nest, left, husk

Green and Yellow: that is, that's, was not, wasn't, do not, don't, here is, here's, can not, can't, did not, didn't, does not, doesn't, who is, who's, what is, what's, he is, he's, 

Blue: watch, salt, wash, tall, bought, wand, almost, wasp, fought, swap, chalk, ought, swat, brought, cough, also

Math: workbook page on counting coins

Phonics: workbook page

Reading: practice reading and practice sight words (another, father, something, mother, together, eight, important, sometimes, sentence, though)

Thursday 05/23/13

Hi!

Today we started on unit for International Night! We are studying the island country of Jamaica. In addition we will also be performing for International Night on June 7th! I would like the students to be dress in jeans/jean skirts and a Jamaican color top (red, yellow, and/or green ). I wanted to give you a heads up to look for outfits. If you have Rasta beanie this would be a great time to pull it out! We will be dancing to Jump in the Line by Harry Belafonte!

Spelling: Practice Test

Math: worksheet

Phonics:workbook page

Reading: practice sight words and practice reading

Tuesday 03/21/13

Hi!

Today we had a great day back into our normal routine!!! 

Spelling: 10 sentences

Math: workbook page

Reading: practice sight words and practice reading

Phonics: worksheet 

Monday 05/20/13

Hi! Sorry for the past days and not updating the blog. I was sick with Strep and had to miss Thursday and Friday.

So today was a lot catching up... but at the same time a day not in our normal routine. We started the day with a big celebration in honor of astronaut Jim Lovell. He visited the school along with the News Station and Mariachi Band, dancers, and balloons! The kids had a great Monday!

Today, I am sending home the permission slips for our field trip!!! Please sign and return ASAP.

Homework:

Spelling: 4 times each

Blue: long, blow, loaf, dome, coach, slow, roast, gloss, lose, roam, boat, know, grow, wrote, globe, throw, chop, drop, shop, note, close

Green: sigh, try, bright, fight, grill, high, grime, bliss, twice, white, cry, grim, shy, sky, night, quit, dry, whisk, quite, rise

Yellow: rich, math, such, pass, moth, much, cloth, class, with, miss, fresh, boss, toss, rush, grass, kiss, which, bath, brush

Red: slob, flag, dress, plot, crab, flop, fluff, slid, sled, truck, trot, gruff, drip, flat, slug, bled, gloss, clip, drill, spin, fret, glad, slap, plug, fled


Math: workbook page

Phonics: workbook page

Reading: practice reading and practice sight words: day, end, second, year, school, sing, because, eye, through, knew

Tuesday 05-14/13

Spelling: 10 sentences

Math: Worksheet

Phonics: Worksheet

Reading: practice sight words and practice reading

Monday 05/13/13

Hi!  Today students were given new Spelling groups. Groups are specifically design to review spelling patterns your child struggled with from the year. Please scroll down the blog to find your child's Spelling words.

Spelling: 4 times each

Math: workbook page

Reading: Practice reading and practice sight words

Monday Spelling 05/13/13

Spelling Words for the week!!!!

We NOW have 4 Spelling Groups... Please ask your child what group they are in. Students were given new groups today based on assessment.

Friday 05/10/13

Happy Mothers' Day!!!!!!!!!!

Today the students had a full day of visitors. For career day we had Dr. Senese come in ans talk to us about her being a vet. Then Myaor Rham Emanuel came to our classroom today!!! The students chatted with him and they all got to high-five him!

Reading: Book Reports are due Monday!

Have a Great Weekend!

~Mrs. Estrada

Tuesday 05/07/13

Hi! Today we started adding with 2 digit numbers n Math! We also started are unit on Butterflies in Science.

Reminder, that tomorrow is 1/2 DAY of SCHOOL... dismissal is at 11:30


Homework:
Spelling: 10 sentences

Math: Worksheet on 2 digit adding

Phonics: worksheet 

Reading: practice sight words and practice reading 

Monday 05/06/13

Spelling: 4 times each

Red: rush, flash, fish, crash, hush, trash, dash, swish, mush, flush, rash, mash, wish, crush, blush, smash, dish, plush

Green: both, cone, know, throw, cold, blown, told, poll, those, coast, groan, glow, ghost, road, loan, throne, rode, slow, toe, owe

Blue: fool, nook, spoon, would, brook, hook, could, stool, hood, root, troop, crook, noon, hoop, wood, spool, should, tool, foot, groom, stood, wool, soot

Math: worksheet on mental math

Phonics: worksheet

Reading: practice reading and practice sight-words (while, time, talk, part, food, almost, study, often, last)

Friday 05/03/13

Hi! Today the students had a substitute. I was away at a workshop. The substitute should have passed out test folders. Please review, sign and return tests for Monday. (Note: students who miss Friday "assessment day" won't have anything in their folder.)

Like always... Book Reports are due Monday!

Enjoy your weekend~
~Mrs. Estrada

Thursday 05/02/13

Hi!

I apologize for not updating the blog this week! It's been a busy week.

Homework:

Spelling: practice test

Math: worksheet on fractions

Phonics: worksheet

Reading: practice sight words and practice reading