Miss Goff's Class Page

Friday, February 5^th

Our class has earned all of our marbles after much hard work! YAY! This Friday, in celebration of their accomplishments, we will be having a Pajama Party. The kiddos can wear their pajamas ALL day and can bring their favorite stuffed animal to snuggle with.

Happy February!  Our classroom window is filling up with purple hearts with “Random Acts of Kindness!”  Please continue catching your child doing something nice for someone else.

• Word Wall Words: This week is a word wall review week.  Please check out the Word Wall Page to practice reading and spelling them!
• Reading: Story Elements.  We are focusing on setting (where a story takes place).  While we are reading, ask us where the setting is.  Is it at a character’s house?  It is outdoors?  Remember, we are still working on stating the characters’ names, not just the pronouns. 
• Math: We just finished our unit assessment. We have now begun working on identifying 2D shapes.  We even learned a new word: vertices!
• Science: This week we will be studying the moon!  We will read books, draw pictures, and discuss the different phases of the moon.
• Writing: We are working on adding details between our transition sentences!
• Art: We worked on overlapping with our calendars! 

The class list for Valentine cards came home on Monday, as well as the new At-Home Learning Calendar!

Enjoy your week!

Miss Goff

I can not believe that January is almost over. We have been working very hard on mid-year assessments.

 ▫ Reading: Story Elements: Title, Characters, and Setting.  We are working on retelling stories; we are trying to use character names, instead of pronouns.

▫ Math: We are working on a variety of ways to solve story problems. 

▫ Science: Last week we finished our class chart about the Sun.  We are learning more about the sun and will begin investigating the Solar System. 

▫ Writing: We have been finishing up Small Moments and adding details to our writing! We have also been working on using First, Next, Then, and Last.

▫ Word Wall Words: friend, from, jump, kick, us

No School on Friday for a Teacher Work Day.

Enjoy your week!

Miss Goff

Random Acts of Kindness has started!  Please make sure you read the information letter to parents about participating in random acts of kindness!  We will be filling up our window with purple hearts to share all the great things we do for others!

This week:

• Reading: We will begin story elements, specifically focusing on characters and special traits of characters.
• Math: We have been playing a fun game called “Five in a Row”.
• Science: We will begin our investigation on the Sun and the Moon and some of the solar system!
• Word Wall Words: Check out the Word Wall Words page for new words this week!
• Hippie Day is Friday, January 22nd, which is also an early release day!

Enjoy your week!

Miss Goff

Hello Families!

This week we are working on:

• Math: Symmetry, Estimation, and Base-10 (Place Values)
  • We learned that when something has symmetry it is the same on both sides. We made snowflakes to help us.
  • For estimation, we guessed how many fingerprints it would take to go around our snowman! 
  •  Base-10 and place value is a review this week!
  • We are practicing writing our numbers 1-120.  Please help me write my numbers past 100 at home (101, 102, 103…) Our base-10 work will help!
• Reading comprehension: We are working on text-to-text, comparing what we heard/read from one book to another book!
• Word Wall Words: do, eat, new, have, of
• Word families: We are working on silent e words..such as _ake, _ate, _oke!  Help us remember the ‘e’ is “SILENT” and make the vowel say its name. 
• Handwriting: We are have been practicing the letters: k and l this week.

Have a wonderful week.

Miss Goff

Early release is this Friday!

Dear First Graders and Families,

I wanted to thank all of you for your thoughtfulness to go above and beyond to purchase me a Christmas, birthday, and wedding present. It means so much to me that all of you worked together to plan such an amazing gift. I will definitely be able to use the gift cards. I truly appreciate everything that you did for me  because it means the world to me.

 Thank you for all of your dedicated support this year with our class and myself.

 Thanks again from the bottom of my heart.

 Miss Goff

Hello Families,

Next week we will begin our number scrolls to practice writing to 1,000.  If you have any extra paper towel rolls please send them to school as soon as possible!  Thank you very much!

Thank you,

Miss Goff

Welcome Back!!

This week we are working on:

• Reading: We are finishing up text-to-self connections.  While we are reading or listening to a story, ask us if this story makes us think of anything from our lives. 
• Word wall words: all, day, has, that, they
• Word Families: _ill, _ack, _ump (Th), _ick (Th), and _ake (F).
• Handwriting: We are practicing the letters: u, e, and i.
• Symmetry.  We introduced the word symmetry.  It is still a new concept, but we are making snowflakes to help us practice.
• Place Value: Ask if I can show you how Base-10 blocks work in the 1s, 10s, and 100s columns. 

Friday, January 8^th- Crazy Hat and/or Hair Day!

Thank you,

Miss Goff

Hello Everyone! I cannot believe this is our last week before Winter Break!

This week we are learning about:

• Adjectives, Nouns, Verbs and Prepositional Phrases.  We are writing poems using special words. 
• In the At Home Learning, a time worksheet came home.  We are learning how to tell time on the hour (o’ clock or :00) and half hour (half past _ o’clock or :30).  Ask us some time and we can show them to you on a clock!
• Writing:  We are working on using transition words: First, Next, Then, Last… for example.  Ask us to tell you a story (or write a story) using these words!  What is a topic sentence?  We know!  We also wrote letters to Santa… hopefully we will hear back from him or a helper soon!

 Also happening on Friday, Dec. 18th:

• What:  A celebration of light around the world.  Cherry Valley Band and Choir performance with all school participation and audience sing-a-long.
• Who: Cherry Valley Students
• When: December 18, 2009 at 2:15 p.m.
• Where: Cherry Valley Gym

**All families are invited, so please join us!**

Enjoy your break and have fun!  I will see you on January 4th!

Miss Goff

This week we are learning about:

• A review of word wall words!  Some ones we need extra practice are: you, very, her, like, car, was, are, with, see, she
• Learning about the ‘H’ brothers.  The ‘H’ brothers we have learned so far are: th, sh and wh. What words can you make with these sounds?
• We are working on comprehension.  During reading groups, we are retelling stories from the beginning, middle and end.
• In math, we are working on recording our data in a bar graph.  Ask us about our Christmas tree ornament graph!  

Enjoy your week!

Miss Goff