Welcome to Mrs. Tankersley's Class
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Welcome to my Web Page! |
Welcome to 1st Grade!
Welcome to our class and to my web page. I hope this page will be helpful to you throughout this school year. You can email me by clicking in the left navigation. You can see our schedule, our supply list and our vocabulary words. Other curriculum info and class news will be located in the sections below! |
Reading is the key! |
Language Arts
We are working on our new theme - Our Neighborhood at Work.
The new word wall word chart with our high frequency words should come home soon. Put this in a safe place and practice those words! |
Spelling and Phonics |
Phonics and Phonemic Awareness
We have covered all the short vowel sounds and most of the consonants. We are working on digraphs - th, sh, ch and wh. We are working on r controlled vowels - ar, or, er, ir and ur. We are also starting on the long vowel sounds. This reading series really works those decoding skills! |
Learn your math facts! |
Math
We have really worked on addition and subtraction. We will work on addition and subtraction facts all year. You can help by doing flash cards with your child. Memorizing their math facts is very important. We have also completed a chapter on Graphs and Tables. Your child should know what a tally table is as well as concrete, picture and bar graphs. We are now starting on the math chapters for numbers to 100. We will be in these chapters for about 3-4 weeks. We work on counting and writing by ones, twos, fives and tens. We work on place value, number order, greater than and less than and rounding to the nearest ten. |
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Do you know any folktales? |
Social Studies
We have switched to Social Studies for the next few weeks. We will be learning about folktale heroes. The ones we will read about are Johnny Appleseed, Davy Crockett, Paul Bunyan, John Henry and Annie Oakley. We want to look at why they seemed bigger than life and what they meant to America's national heritage. We will follow up folktale heroes with patriotism. We will talk about patriotic words, patriotic songs and our country's patriotic symbols. |
Put these on your calendar! |
Important Dates to Remember:
- November 5 - Field Trip/ Ruth Patrick Science Center
- November 11 - Progress Reports
- November 13 - Popcorn Friday
- November 23 - 27 - Thanksgiving Holidays
- November 30 - December 4 - Reindeer Lane /Christmas
Shopping |
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FYI |
Things You Need to Know:
-LABEL all money that is sent in! We get money for many different things and we need to know exactly what the money is for.
-Watch those calendars and LOOK for GREENS!
-We do have a SNACK time each day. They need to bring their own snack. NO candy or sodas allowed.
-Water bottles are allowed, but they need to be small and simple.
-REMEMBER I must have a note from you if your child is to go home a different way than they normally do. I CANNOT take their word for it.
-If your child is ABSENT they need a written excuse for the absence. It needs to come with them the day they return to school. We keep a careful watch over tardies and absences!
-School starts at 8:30. They are TARDY if they arrive after the 2nd bell which rings at 8:35! Be ON TIME!
-Read the newsletter to see when we have specials each week. We are doing specials on a 6 day rotation! Our rotations goes: PE, PE, PE, Art, Music, Counselor. Then it repeats. Particularly watch for PE days and have your child wear tennis shoes on those days!
-LUNCHES-Keep up with your child's lunch money. They really appreciate you keeping your account current. If your account is low, you will receive a balance notice!
-NO OUTSIDE FOOD should be brought in when you come eat lunch with your child.
- HOMEWORK is due back the next day! Help your child keep up with this and start a good routine for putting it back in their folder!
- READ the newsletter. It will help you know what is going on in our class and at Blue Ridge! READ IT! And look over your child's papers in their folder!!!!!!! |
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