Literacy Parade/Carnival

Hello All!
We are quickly approaching the literacy parade, trick or treating in the hallways and the fall carnival. It is all on October 23rd. We will have fall centers following the parade in the morning. Parents are asked to observe and take pictures from the dining room. Children are to find a character from a book to dress up as. Please make sure the costumes are school appropriate. They are also going to need a change of clothes as we have PE that day for resource. If you are a volunteer, you are welcome to stay and help with centers. The children will rotate around centers in the morning and after lunch, we will go to a normal schedule.
Trick or Treating will be in the hallways beginning at 6pm that evening. Immediately following is the fall carnival! Make sure you set some time aside to visit this yearly tradition for us here at Chets! There will be games, prizes, food and lots of fun!

!st day of 1st grade!

Skills Block

We have been reviewing Kindergarten skills for the past 2 1/2 weeks of first grade. Please review these at home as well. We have been talking about blends, word families, sight words, vowels and text talk vocabulary. I give them a blend...for example "st" and have them come up with as many words as they can that have that blend. Or you could have them look in books for that blend!
Also, it is very important to build up your childs reading fluency this year. They should be reading their book in a bag at least twice a night, if not more! I have been testing students this week and see that over the summer, some of them have been reading slower that last year! Please make sure that you are having them read to you every night!
We are going to have a great year!

Wish List/Orientation

Hi all!
I forgot to pull my screen up to reveal the wish list. These are a few things we could use during the school year.
Renusit pop up air fresheners
Cardstock
Pencil top erasers
Treats for treasure box
hot glue sticks
HP color ink #22
HP black ink #21

I appreciate all of you that came to orientation to meet me and check out our funky new classroom! I can't wait to get started learning on Monday!!

Earth Day!

Today was Earth Day! Mrs. Wilson...aka "Luke's mom" came in to read to the class today. It was a beautiful day, so we went outside to listen to her stories! She read Michael Recycle and The Lorax. The kids loved being outside in the fresh air learning how to take care of our world! Mrs. Wilson also got us another plant for our classroom! She says it brings oxygen into the air to help promote better air for breathing! (which we need in our sick classroom right about now) Some lucky student will be able to feed the plants every week! (So Ms. SR doesn't forget) Make sure you ask your child about our new pet as well!!

We had a great time visiting Wolfsons Childrens Hospital in March! We were able to see the ambulance, xrays of a snake and a robot that gave out all the medication in the hospital! We then went to the park for lunch and playtime! The kids had a blast on all the neat equiptment and we had the park to ourselves!

Curriculum

What is your child learning? Go to duvalschools.org and follow the steps below to see!

Clicking on the Riverdeep/Curriculum icon listed under the QuickLinks section
Clicking on the “Help Your Kid” menu link on the “Parents” dropdown list
Selecting “Know what my child is learning?” in the “How Do I…” dropdown list