Mrs. Vella's 1st Grade Super Stars

Parent Teacher Conference This Thursday

Posted on December 12, 2016 by darsie.vella

Below is a list of the times I have available for December Conferences. If you would like to schedule a time to talk about your student’s progress, click on the link below:

Conference Sign Up

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Homework for December 12th-16th

Posted on December 12, 2016 by darsie.vella

***I WILL BE COLLECTING HOMEWORK FOR THIS WEEK ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15TH INCLUDING READING CALENDARS. ***

Since I know this week is going to be filled with excitement and extra activities, there will only be 2 homework components.
1- Math Lesson 8-9 and My Math Fluency Practice Addition Sentences choose 10 Problems. (Five from the front and 5 from the back page)
***Last chance to turn in Math Homework Lesson 5-7 for credit.***
2- 20 Minutes Reading (December Reading Logs will be Collected on Thursday, December 15th)

This will be a review week for HF spelling words so…NO SPELLING TEST THIS WEEK.

1-My Math Homework for the Week:
Monday Lesson 8: Add in any Order
Tuesday Lesson 9: Add Three Numbers
Wednesday Lesson My Math Fluency Practice: Pick 5 addition problems from each page for a total of 10 addition number sentences. Please have your student use varying math strategies as they work to complete this assignment. the following are examples:
1- Counting On
2-Add Doubles
3-Doubles +1
4-Doubles -1
5- Add in Any Order

I LOVE TO READ!
2- Reading 20 minutes this week. there
Reading: 20 minutes/day or a total of 60 minutes/week:
RECORD YOUR READING MINUTES ON THE “BOOK IT” READING LOG located in your student’s green folder.
***There are several sources for reading: “Reading for all Learners” also known as”Baggy Books,” books from the school library, books from home, as well as the public library. Students may also use our online reading program Raz-Kids. Our class Raz-Kids login is: dvella0 (That’s a zero)

I know you are probably SSSSSOOOO tired of seeing this “BLIP” about reading fluency and comprehension, but I can’t stress it enough!!!

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YUMMY PIZZA!!! School Lunch Count for Friday, December 9th

Posted on December 8, 2016 by darsie.vella

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We are required to submit the lunch count for Friday, December 9th now. The school lunch option will be pizza. Please indicate on this lunch choice form if your child will be having school lunch or bringing a home lunch. Count needed by Thursday, December 9th at 8am. Click here to submit your lunch choice:

Lunch Count

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It’s Christmas Party Time

Posted on December 5, 2016 by darsie.vella

We will be having our first grade holiday party Friday, December 16th from 11:40 -12 50. It is also an early out day. I am looking for volunteers to come in and help with the activity in our room. WE will be making snowman hats. The activity is fairly simple, but requires that students cut, color and put together a snowman, then attach it to a band which goes around their heads. We only have about 10-12 minutes per group. Some students may need help cutting and putting their snowman together as well as attaching it to the band on their head. It would be a super fun way to get some volunteer hours in. If you would like to help please let me know by either sending me an email here or on Class Dojo.

Thank you,
Mrs. V and Mrs. Sharp

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Homework For December 5th-9th

Posted on December 3, 2016 by darsie.vella

*ALL MATH, SPELLING AND TIMED READING FLUENCY HOMEWORK IS DUE FRIDAY DECEMBER 9th.
** DON’T FORGET YOUR MOON JOURNALS ARE ALSO DUE DECEMBER 9TH.
**ALL READING MINUTES ARE DUE MONDAY DECEMBER 12TH

There are 5 components to this weeks homework:
1- My Math Worksheets: 5-7
***Last chance to turn in My Math Homework: 1-4
2-Math Timings: Subtracting from 1, 2, 3, and 4
3- Reading Fluency: Story #4
4-Reading Minutes: (20 minutes/day or a total of 100 minutes/week)
***WEEKLY READING MINUTES MUST BE RECORDED BY SUNDAY FOR CREDIT (Checked Monday). LATE RECORDED MINUTES WILL NOT BE RECORDED FOR CREDIT. ALSO PLEASE, PLEASE REMEMBER TO RECORD YOUR STUDENT’S MINUTES FOR OUR LIBRARY CHALLENGE TOO. SO far I have only had one student do this…I would love our class to get the SUPER COOL prize for reading the most in first grade.
5- Spelling

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I LOVE MATH!!

1-My Math Homework for the Week:
Monday Lesson 5: Use Near Doubles to Add
Tuesday Lesson 6: Problem Solving- Act It Out
Wednesday Lesson 7: Make 10 to Add
Thursday Lesson7: Review Make 10 to Add

Worksheets: Please complete every other problem (alternate between evens and odds so your child gets practice doing story problems AND “Vocabulary Check”/ “Test Practice” problems each week). If your child wants to do every problem they are certainly free to do so! 🙂 Please check your child’s answers for accuracy!

2-Math Timings: Subtracting from 1, 2, 3, and 4

Practice your fluency timing repeatedly: “Addition Mixed” and introduce “Subtracting from 0,1,2,3, and 4” when they are ready to move on. Record your best time and score each day. [By the end of first grade, the target goal is to finish all 25 problems in 1 minute and 15 seconds, with 90% accuracy (23 out of 25 problems correct).] Click here for extra timings: Fluency Timings

I love to read!

3- One Minute Reading Fluency. Lesson #4 ONLY from this link: Phonics Fluency Stories
This daily one-minute timed fluency reading will help your student become a fluent reader. It will also count as reading minutes. Time your student for one minute. Record the number of words they were able to read CORRECTLY in one minute.

*Want to save paper? Have your student read the passage online, then simply record their CORRECT words read/minute each day on their spelling homework form.

4- Reading: 20 minutes/day or a total of 100 minutes/week:
RECORD YOUR READING MINUTES ON THE “BOOK IT” READING LOG located in your student’s green folder.
***There are several sources for reading: “Reading for all Learners” also known as”Baggy Books,” books from the school library, books from home, as well as the public library. Students may also use our online reading program Raz-Kids. Our class Raz-Kids login is: dvella0 (That’s a zero)

I know you are probably SSSSSOOOO tired of seeing this “BLIP” about reading fluency and comprehension, but I can’t stress it enough!!!

Understanding what you are reading is just as important as being a fluent reader and vice versa!!! PLEASE use these Re-Tell Ropes whenever you are reading with your student checking for understanding. THIS HELPS STUDENTS PREPARE FOR OUR LANGUAGE ARTS WORK AND ALL COMPREHENSION TESTING.

5. Phonics and High Frequency Words
High Frequency Words
Here is the link to print our weekly spelling homework form: New Weekly Spelling Homework **Remember if you choose not to print off and use this form you need to make sure your student is writing each word and the sentence daily on paper, and that all writing is nice and neat as well as organized like the form, and that the papers get turned in on Friday for credit.
Our spelling test will be Friday, November 9th.

NEW WORDS:
people
other
more
them
so
PHONICS FOCUS WORDS:
him
jot
tip
SENTENCE:
People jot quick notes to Santa.

The spelling words and sentence are worth 16 points/day this week. The spelling test will be given Friday.
***Your student needs to write EACH spelling word once in the 1st 5 boxes and the 3 Phonics words in the following 3 boxes. There should be plenty of space to write the sentence once on the 2 lines provided at the bottom of each page on the form.

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Doubles Facts Song

Posted on December 3, 2016 by darsie.vella



It’s the doubles, baby, here we go, here we go! It’s the doubles, baby, and we start with zero: 0 + 0 = 0 Oh! 1 + 1 =2 Ooooooh! 2 + 2 = 4 More! 3 + 3 = 6 Kicks! 4 + 4 = 8 That’s Great! 5 + 5 = 10 Again! 6 + 6 = 12 That’s swell! 7 + 7 = 14 Let’s lean! 8 + 8 = 16 Really keen! 9 + 9 = 18 Jelly bean! 10 + 10 = 20 That’s plenty!

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My Little Turkeys

Posted on December 3, 2016 by darsie.vella

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December Parent Teacher Conference Sign Up

Posted on December 2, 2016 by darsie.vella

Below is a list of the times I have available for December Conferences. If you would like to schedule a time to talk about your student’s progress, click on the link below:

Conference Sign Up

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Important Information and Reminders

Posted on December 2, 2016 by darsie.vella

1- Please check your student’s green folder nightly.

2- FRIDAY: Early Out 1:00pm
Homework due
Spelling test
*Students are welcome to show their Quest pride by wearing their school spirit shirts (with uniform pants)

3- Moon journal DUE, Friday December 9th.
http://www.moonpage.com/index.html
Moonrise, moonset, and moon phases

4- Scholastic Book Order DUE TUESDAY, December 6th. Books are a great holiday gift. If your order is a gift/surprise for your child please let us know and we will notify you when it arrives so you can pick it up. Remember to use the coupon that came home this week. Click here for easy online ordering, our class code is JBTR2: Scholastic Book Club

5- Parent Teacher Conferences will be Thursday, December 15th. Please watch for the sign up to be posted on our blog.

6-As part of our 1st grade Tech Standards, students need to get on our blog and reply to weekly posts. This is going to be an ongoing graded assignment with a new posts every Friday. Please help your student complete this assignment before each Friday.

7- Library Day is Tuesday December 6th. Please take a few minutes post your student’s reading minutes for this years READING CHALLENGE…

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Homework for November 28th-Dec 2nd

Posted on November 26, 2016 by darsie.vella

*ALL MATH, SPELLING AND TIMED READING FLUENCY HOMEWORK IS DUE FRIDAY DECEMBER 2nd.
**ALL READING MINUTES ARE DUE MONDAY DECEMBER 5TH
** DON’T FORGET YOUR MOON JOURNALS.

There are 5 components to this weeks homework:
1- My Math Worksheets: 1-4
***Last chance to turn in My Math Homework: 13, 14, and Subtraction Fluency Math Problems (6 vertical and 6 horizontal), as well as HF Spelling and Fluency Reading Story #2
2-Math Timings: Mixed Addition Mixed (Form B)
3- Reading Fluency: Story #3
4-Reading Minutes: (20 minutes/day or a total of 100 minutes/week)
***WEEKLY READING MINUTES MUST BE RECORDED BY SUNDAY FOR CREDIT. LATE RECORDED MINUTES. WILL NOT BE RECORDED FOR CREDIT.
5- Spelling

1-My Math Homework for the Week:
Monday Lesson 1: Counting On 1,2,0r 3
Tuesday Lesson 2: Count On Using Pennies
Wednesday Lesson 3: Use a Number Line to Add
Thursday Lesson 4: Use Doubles to Add

I Love to Read!!
3- One Minute Reading Fluency. Lesson #3 ONLY from this link: Phonics Fluency Stories
This daily one-minute timed fluency reading will help your student become a fluent reader. It will also count as reading minutes. Time your student for one minute. Record the number of words they were able to read CORRECTLY in one minute.

*Want to save paper? Have your student read the passage online, then simply record their CORRECT words read/minute each day on their spelling homework form.

4- Reading: 20 minutes/day or a total of 100 minutes/week:
RECORD YOUR READING MINUTES ON THE “BOOK IT” READING LOG located in your student’s green folder.
***There are several sources for reading: “Reading for all Learners” also known as”Baggy Books,” books from the school library, books from home, as well as the public library. Students may also use our online reading program Raz-Kids. Our class Raz-Kids login is: dvella0 (That’s a zero)

***IMPORTANT BAGGIE BOOK REMINDER… Replacement of any lost or damaged books will be the responsibility of the student/family. Please take care of them.
Books are to be returned daily in the plastic bag. In order for your student to pass off each book, they must have fewer than 3 mistakes/book. They must also have a parent, guardian, or volunteer signature on their reading log.

Don’t forget about reading comprehension! Understanding what you are reading is just as important as being a fluent reader!!! PLEASE use these Re-Tell Ropes whenever you are reading with your student checking for understanding. THIS HELPS STUDENTS PREPARE FOR OUR LANGUAGE ARTS WORK ON FRONT ROW AND DIBELS TEST COMPREHENSION.

5. Phonics and High Frequency Words
High Frequency Words
Here is the link to print our weekly spelling homework form: New Weekly Spelling Homework **Remember if you choose not to print off and use this form you need to make sure your student is writing each word and the sentence daily on paper, and that all writing is nice and neat as well as organized like the form, and that the papers get turned in on Friday for credit.
Our spelling test will be Friday, December 2nd.

NEW WORDS:
said
out
if
some
would
PHONICS FOCUS WORDS:
cab
box
top
SENTENCE:
I would like that box top.
The spelling words and sentence are worth 16 points/day this week. The spelling test will be given Friday.
***Your student needs to write EACH spelling word once in the 1st 5 boxes and the 3 Phonics words in the following 3 boxes. There should be plenty of space to write the sentence once on the 2 lines provided at the bottom of each page on the form.

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