Mrs. Jansen's First Grade Class
Weekly Newsletter: May 16, 2016
KEYSOR PRIDE: MISSION & VISION
Community - Character - Achievement - Impact
"The Keysor community works together to support all learners on their journey as empathetic, creative and critical thinkers who actively impact the world around them."
"The Keysor community works together to support all learners on their journey as empathetic, creative and critical thinkers who actively impact the world around them."
Our final week!
WOW! Just WOW!! Can you believe that?! This week will be our final, five day week together in first grade. As last week, many assessment pieces were completed in mathematics and individual reading assessments. This week we will be concluding our reading comprehension assessments.
Thank you also to our families that joined us during our Spring Fun Run! The kids of course, LOVED it! Hope you enjoy the Pic-Collage, capturing all of their joy!
The children have become quite masterful in their usage of our daily learning choices during our literacy block in the morning and our topics/math choices during the afternoon. As we conclude our year, this model will continue in flexible learning, as well as our flexible spaces.
Our final students of the week will be announced this Friday! However, we also want to celebrate our two recent recipients, Camren and Desmond. Both friends have been extremely caring and helpful during our days together. Keep up the great work!
Thank you also to our families that joined us during our Spring Fun Run! The kids of course, LOVED it! Hope you enjoy the Pic-Collage, capturing all of their joy!
The children have become quite masterful in their usage of our daily learning choices during our literacy block in the morning and our topics/math choices during the afternoon. As we conclude our year, this model will continue in flexible learning, as well as our flexible spaces.
Our final students of the week will be announced this Friday! However, we also want to celebrate our two recent recipients, Camren and Desmond. Both friends have been extremely caring and helpful during our days together. Keep up the great work!
Special Classes/Weekly Events Schedule:
Monday, May 16th: B Day - Music with Dr. St. Clair
Tuesday, May 17th: C Day - Wellness with Mrs. Ehrlich
Wednesday, May 18th: D Day - Library with Mrs. Ems (lesson only - NO book check-out); Wellness Wednesday for walking, running or riding your bikes to school
Thursday, May 19th: E Day - Art with Mrs. Lang; Walking Field Trip during morning to meet our Pen Pals from Robinson Elementary! Please email respond if you would like to join us!
Friday, May 20th: A Day - FIELD DAY! Our field day experience will be in the afternoon, to begin after our lunch altogether at KHS*
*PLEASE EMAIL RESPOND BY 3:00 PM ON MONDAY, MAY 16TH, IF YOUR CHILD WILL NEED A SACK LUNCH FOR FIELD DAY. Thank you!!
Tuesday, May 17th: C Day - Wellness with Mrs. Ehrlich
Wednesday, May 18th: D Day - Library with Mrs. Ems (lesson only - NO book check-out); Wellness Wednesday for walking, running or riding your bikes to school
Thursday, May 19th: E Day - Art with Mrs. Lang; Walking Field Trip during morning to meet our Pen Pals from Robinson Elementary! Please email respond if you would like to join us!
Friday, May 20th: A Day - FIELD DAY! Our field day experience will be in the afternoon, to begin after our lunch altogether at KHS*
*PLEASE EMAIL RESPOND BY 3:00 PM ON MONDAY, MAY 16TH, IF YOUR CHILD WILL NEED A SACK LUNCH FOR FIELD DAY. Thank you!!
Flying High!
This weekend was a gorgeous one for enjoying the Blue Angels, but it was also a great time to reflect upon how incredible of a year your child has had! Reflecting upon each Angel shown, pair each Angel with each subject matter: Reading, Writing, Math, Topics Exploration, as well as the trailing tail to your child's journey over ten months! The Angels grew in magnitude during their show and your child has done the same in all of their learning. This symbolism is just one way we will be honoring your little one during these next eight days. As a class family, we're looking forward to our variety of celebrations ahead!
Meeting our Pen-Pals
This Thursday, we will be having a walking field trip during the morning to Kirkwood Park, to meet our Pen Pals at Robinson Elementary. Our time together will provide for conversation, play and more. We will leave Keysor at 9:15 a.m. and return a little after 11:15 a.m. If you would like to join us, please let me know!
Animal Groups with LEGO's?
Yep! The kids have learned SO much during these past weeks about animals! During our LEGO fun day on Friday, as part of our "Popping into 2nd Grade & Summer" countdown, the children created their own animal as based upon the attributes they have learned specific animal groups possess. We had birds, snakes, turtles and humans created! More LEGO fun planned for this week as well!
Sight Words and Sound Focus
Our sight words this week are: scramble, again, careful, breakfast, batter
Contraction understanding is growing immensely! This week, our contraction studies will move into "n't" and " 're" combinations in words like couldn't, can't, we're, & you're.
Contraction understanding is growing immensely! This week, our contraction studies will move into "n't" and " 're" combinations in words like couldn't, can't, we're, & you're.
Writing Workshop: Realistic Fiction Story Workshop Continued
More incredible work in story creation by the kids this week. Several are in the publishing process, while other continue to develop their drafts. Each day the children are also experiencing mini-lessons focusing their stories to sequencing of events, adding details and more. As one story ends, another is abounding. Love this time of year!
Addition, subtraction and some missing addend practice!
With our assessments completed, this time of year we will spend in securing our math strategies and review how to solve for missing addends. This work will look very similar to beginning algebra concepts, such as: 10 + __ = 15, what would fill this blank?
Character Study - David & More
Due to our week's study of David extended through all of last week, this week, the children will move into picking out their favorite character of study from our past month, or bring in a stuffed animal of choice (this will be tied to a 'popping' reveal) and tell about it's adventures around Keysor, sharing location, characteristics and behaviors, all in a digital format. So, definitely MORE to come!
Mrs. Traci Jansen
Email: traci.jansen@kirkwoodschools.org
Website: http://keysor.kirkwoodschools.org/pages/Keysor_Elementary/Classes/Jansen
Location: 725 N Geyer Rd, Kirkwood, MO, United States
Phone: 314-213-6120 (2164)
Twitter: @TraciJansen