My Business - Grade 1 Teacher: Miss Barbara Riedi I am looking forward to teaching 1st grade this year. We will have lots of fun.

Christ the King School

750 North Broadway Yonkers, NY 10701

Phone:914.963.7474 Fax:914.423.4101

Grade 1

Teacher: Miss Barbara Riedi

I am looking forward to teaching 1st grade this year. We will have lots of fun.

2009 - 2010 School Year

General Information

Monday - Music and Computers

Tuesday - Gym and Library

Wednesday - Spanish

Thursday - Art

Friday - Show and Tell

Cinco De Mayo with the 6th Grade Buddy Class

Chapter Books

Reading chapter books to children strengthens listening skills, comprehension skills, and vocabulary.

I have been reading chapter books to the class since February. The first book I read was Charlotte's Web. Then we saw the movie.

We finished the book, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, and saw the play.

I am going to begin reading Pippi Longstocking. We will watch the movie when I am finished reading the book to the class.

I have the VHS tape for the cartoon version of Pippi Longstocking. If anyone has the real life version on DVD please send it in.

Thank You

Thank you to Mrs. Politi, Mrs. Conway, Mrs. Eugenio, Mrs. Hughes, and Mrs. Aylesworth for donating dry erasers, dry erase markers, and white tablet paper.

Raising Our Hands

Please remind your child to participate more during class. Thanks.

Reminders for Specials

Music folders are needed for Music with the songs. Girls should not wear earrings to Gym class.

Please remember library books for library on Tuesday.

The children need a Spanish folder that they are to keep in school for the next Spanish class.

Bring in glue or glue sticks for Art.

Show and Tell is every Friday.

Class Schedule

Morning prayers

Check homework

Spelling

Reading

Snack

English - Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, and Pronouns

Groups - Reading, Computer, centers, Math, sentence strips, and sight word cards

Religion

Writing - 10 sentences

Lunch and Recess

Math

Science

Phonics

Social Studies

All tests should be signed and returned to the teacher.

Jobs in the First Grade

Messenger

Board erasers

Writes pages person

Sticker person

Line leaders

Lunch Baskets

Vowels

Computer person

Paper person

Helper

Closet Closer

Turns off the lights person

Bell ringer

Cleans the desks

Events

The First Grade is now having weekly Spelling Bees. This keeps them up to date on their spelling words and creates for a nice whole class activity.

We also have Math Bees.

Project Mailbox

Thanks to all who made the mailboxes! The children each have one and they look wonderful. Children are responsible for checking their mailboxes at the end of every day.

Cubbies

We put all of our textbooks, workbooks, and notebooks in our cubbies. These keep our books neat.

Homework

In Order to save on paper, the math workbook pages will be ripped out and sent home. The children will do both sides of the math page.

The Science or Social Studies textbook will also be sent home every week in our effort to conserve paper. These books are very colorful and educational but, they are heavy. Please help your children carry them when they leave school. The Science or Social Studies textbook may be returned on Friday (the day of the test).

Spelling words of the week - Test Friday

Every Friday, they will either have a Science or Social Studies Test.

1 Math workbook page each night - both sides

1 Phonics workbook page - both sides

Please fill out the Reading Log. Some children are already on their third sheet.

Word Wall

The First Grade has a word wall. We use the word wall to copy words that we need to spell and use during the day. We have lists of sports, animals, colors, plants, opposites, places, shapes, people, food, action words, and holidays.

We also have 33 colorful sentence strips that help us know what a sentence is.

Here are some of our sentences:

A puppy is a baby dog.

The Yankees won the World Series in 2009.

Friends are nice.

Here are some pictures of our class.

At snack time

At gym time

Religion

Please send in rosary beads for your child. We say one decade of the rosary each day.

We are learning how Jesus is important to us.

We show our love to him by caring for others.

Reading is fun!

Reading Groups

Each day we do something different in our reading groups.

We go over sight word cards.

We read from a small leveled reader and answer questions.

We read a story from the class reader.

We complete a phonics worksheet.

We listen to Miss Riedi read a story. Then we answer questions about the story.

Children learn together.

Activities of the Week

The children are working on writing skills. They are remembering to start with capital letters and end with end marks.

Morning Work

Here are some of the activities we do in the morning.

1. Write 4 facts about a learning book.

2. Alphabetical Order

3. Write 5 words that begin with the letter f.

4. Handwriting

5. Math facts

6. phonics - bake, cake, lake, and wake

7.Word Search

8. Word Web

9. Writing sentences

10.nouns, verbs, and adjectives

Math Time

The First Grade is practicing addition and subtraction in many different ways.

We use a number line, counters, and dice to solve math problems.

We use flashcards in groups.

We play Math Baseball in the computer room on Mondays from 1:00 - 1:40 p.m.

We copy addition and subtraction math sentences and solve them in our notebooks.

We need to remember to watch the signs (plus + and minus -).

Place Value

Now we are starting to learn tens and ones. We use a tens and ones mat and blue manipulatives.

Graphs

We are learning about bar graphs and pictographs.

The First Grade is starting to make graphs. We made a bar graph showing the number of students who made each Science diorama.

We will be making pictographs of different topics such as: favorite sports, favorite foods, etc.

MONEY

We started money today. Please go over the values of the penny, nickel, dime, and quarter with your child.

Science

OUR DIORMAS

The first grade made dioramas of different animal habitats. All of the dioramas look great. I can tell that a lot of hard work was put into each and every one of them. Here are the number of children who did each project.

Ocean habitat- 10

Desert habitat- 2

Safari habitat- 2

Wetland habitat- 1

Forest habitat- 2

Jungle habitat- 3

Arctic Habitat - 4

The First Grade is learning about living things.

We learned about different habitats such as the forest, wetland, ocean, and desert.

We are learning about tadpoles, frogs, butterflies, and plants.

Centers

1. Cash Register and Money

2. Animals and their habitats

3. Reading cards

4. Sentence Strips

5. Shapes and Blocks

6. Math Dice work

7. Math Cards

8. Clay

9. Science Center

The End of the Day

At the end of each day, the first grade has to clean up the classroom. We have to pick up the pencils, erasers, scissors, markers, colored pencils, and sharpeners off the floor. We put the items in the Lost and Found box. We have to put our chairs up on top of our desks.