Making Edible Turkeys With Our 5th Grade Buddies

Thank You!

I would like to thank all the parents for taking time to share in your child's conference. Your commitment to your child's success and support of my efforts to help them reach their goals is truly appreciated. It was a pleasure getting to know you.

Scholastic Book Orders

If you are interested in ordering books as a gift for your child, please let me know and I will get the books to you without your child seeing them. Thank you to everyone who has placed orders online with Scholastic. Every month we get an order, we get a free book for our classroom! The link and password are listed to the right if you would like to place an order.

Conferences

We are very excited about our upcoming conferences. The students have been working hard and are anxious to share their goals and progress with you. The conference will begin with your child reading something to you that they wrote and sharing their personal goals in reading and math. Next, we will go over their MAP scores and discuss areas of strength and areas we are working to improve. I sent a conference sheet home today for you to complete if there are any specific concerns you would like to have addressed as well at the conference. I look forward to meeting with you!

Report Cards

Students will be bringing their first report card home on November 10th. This is a snapshot of how they are doing in specific areas of our curriculum. Not all grades are reflected on the report card because there is not enough information this early in the year to create a learning trend. To view a complete list of assessments, please check your child's progress on AtSchool.

Harvest Day

Real Life Farm-part 2

Real Life Farm

Our First Class Poll

Firefighters Visit 1st Grade

Lunch/Classroom Volunteer Calendar

I have updated the classroom calendar to show lunch/classroom volunteers. It is at the bottom of the blog. If you see an open spot and would like to come in, just let me know; we'd love to have you~

Off to a Great Start!

We have had a couple of great weeks. We are getting to know each other and practicing following procedures. This week in science we did several experiments following the Scientific Method. We learned scientists ask questions, develop hypothesis based on research, test their predictions, record their results, and draw conclusions based on their results. Let your child show you what we did (foil boat challenge, vinegar and baking soda balloons, and nail in the bottle). We are currently watching carnations in food-colored water in the classroom to see what will happen. The main idea of this week's investigations is that scientists use their 5 senses to make observations and if the same procedure is followed multiple times, you should get the same result. Encourage your child to develop their own experiments at home. Beware: they'll want to start with vinegar and baking soda!

First Days of First Grade~

Welcome to First Grade

Hi, my name is Mrs. Magyar and I am going to be your first grade teacher! Welcome to our class blog. What is a blog? Well, a blog is a place where we can share what we are learning with family and friends. We will be able to put pictures on here and write about what we are learning. This will be a special place where we will show how much we have grown this year.

If you are looking at this blog because you got my puppy postcard in the mail, please write a comment on our blog (with mom or dad's help) and tell me a little about yourself. What is your first name? What did you do this summer? What was your favorite thing about kindergarten?

Click on "comments" below and start typing, it's that easy! Also, click on the arrow below Kitty and she'll tell you a special message. You can view our class website by clicking the link below my picture.

I can't wait to learn all about you~