Ms Knowles's blog

Welcome to my blog. I hope to see everyone on Thursday for my open house. I am preparing a handout so you will know a little bit more about me and the routines in the classroom.

Important dates:

Sept. 30 No School

Oct. 8 Walk to school day

Oct. 9 No school

The first graders have been working with nursery rhymes all week. We have learned that nursery rhymes are songs/poems, sometimes rhyme, and they are written about true historical events. It was interesting to find out the true story behind Humpty Dumpty and how Humpty was really a cannon back along time ago during a war.

In math, we have been working on counting by 5's, 10's, 2's, etc. Students are using pennies to find addition facts that add up to various numbers. Please keep practicing counting with your child!!!

Good morning! My name is Ms. Knowles and I am your child's new first grade teacher! I have already sent out a letter so you could get to know me and I hope to set up a parent night in the next week. I will include a new schedule of what we usually accomplish on a day to day basis. Things are coming along slowly so you will have to forgive me! Please feel free to email me or leave me a message. My goal is by next week to have the classroom completely organized and be on more of a set schedule. Students will be bringing home more homework by next week also.

This week, I have gotten to know the students pretty well. We have dived into math, phonics, science, and reading. I really enjoy spending time in the morning having group time to do calendar and graphing.

Our star student of the week was Adrian. Stay tuned at who will be the next star student.