Back to School Night and Helpful Information

I had so much fun seeing all of my wonderful students that came to back to school night. I am very excited for this year, and I know with all of your help it is going to be great!

Just some helpful information that I wanted to make sure everyone was aware of. On the first day of school you are welcome to park and come in with your students and see them off. After that you will drop them off in the front of the building along the curb and they will go inside the front doors and out to the back playground area. There I will pick them up and take them into class.

After school for the first two weeks I will be out front making sure everyone finds their parents okay. I will show all of my students the meeting spot out front where you can find them every day to pick them up. After the first two weeks I will have my own parking lot duty out by the North side of the building and the students will be at the meeting spot out front with other teachers to watch them.

Please make sure your students know to stay there (at our meeting spot) or you need to designate another meeting spot for you to find them easily. Please have your student inform me that they will be meeting you at a different designated spot so I can keep track of them.

For those that missed back to school night. I have a permission slip form for a Zoo Field Trip we have coming up September 8th. I will send this home with your child the first day of school or you can sign it if you come in with them on Wednesday.

I also have room for volunteers in the classroom as well as other forms for you to fill out. Please email me or come see me with questions.

Thanks again for coming out tonight. I appreciate you all and am excited for a wonderful year. I can’t wait to see all my student’s on Wednesday.
See you then!

Mrs. Bischoff

Class Posts

WELCOME TO FIRST GRADE! I met my wonderful students this morning for the first part of their day and I am so excited to be their teacher! We had lots of fun together and I can’t wait for next year to begin. To get a jump start on next year please go on and subscribe to our class blog! Feel free to become familiar with the blog because you will be spending a lot of time on it this upcoming year. Check the blog regularly over the summer for updates as well as for home visit times to be posted! (See class disclosure) Here is where I will post what’s going on in our class. I will be posting information about field trips, projects, and any updates or information that you need to be aware of. I will also be posting what we are learning about so check our class news posts often to see what we’re up too!

Homework Post

Please print off the homework tracker each week. If we only have reading for homework I will let you know so you can print off the reading log only. 

Here is the Homework Trackerfor the weekly language arts homework form.

Here is the Weekly-Reading-Log for when we only have reading for homework. 

Weekly Word Study Homework Instructions:
Print off the weekly WORD SORT sheet and use for the following activities:

**Note: Many cards are pictures, please encourage your child to spell as much of the word as they can.**

Monday- WRITING SORT
o  Print, cut, and sort word cards with an adult and explain this week’s rule.
o  Write GUIDE words at the top of each column. 
o  Some guide words have a C or V combination on them- C stands for consonant and V stands for vowel.
o  READ a word card aloud.
o  WRITE the word under the correct guide.
o  REPEAT (read, write, repeat until all word cards are listed)

Tuesday- WRITING SORT
  • Grab your sort words and lay out each word so that it is facing down. 
  • Pick up one card at a time.
  • READ each card aloud
  • SORT each word
  • WRITE the word under the correct guide word on the homework page. 
  • READ all the words again in each sort and make sure they are in the right column. 

Wednesday- BLIND SORT
o  READ quickly through the words. 
o  Write GUIDE words at the top of each column. 
o  LISTEN as someone reads a word card to you (do not look at the word card).
o  WRITE the word under the correct guide. Goal: correct spelling and placed in correct category.
o  REPEAT (listen, write, repeat until all word cards are listed) 

Thursday-SPEED SORT
  • READ quickly through the words.
  • Have someone TIME how long it takes you to SORT the words.
  • Try to beat your time.
  • One more time.
  • RECORD the sort. 

Note: If the sort homework exceeds 10 minutes any day (Monday – Thursday) please feel free to stop and sign anywhere on that day. I will count that as completed homework. For example: “Wilma is working hard on her homework but it is taking too long.”,  include parent/guardian signature.