We are Setting Sail for Adventure!!

Summer is almost over, and I hope you are getting ready to begin a fabulous year of first grade!! It will be an adventure...

Dress the Teacher!!

Joshua T., Jaelyn, Alyssa, Sarah, and Caleb remembered to bring funny items to Dress MM today as one of our Boosterthon Class Incentives. (I told the others to bring something tomorrow since many forgot over the weekend!) Joshua brought the Optimus Prime mask and Jaelyn brought HANDCUFFS!!!

Sarah decked me out with a crown, fairy wings, a scarf, and big Mardi Gras beads! Caleb brought a Mardi Gras beaded necklace too.

Yes...Alyssa brought her dad's underwear!!!! She promised they were new and he had not worn them yet...this was a huge hit with the class!

Sweet Friends!!

Remember, those who forgot to bring items to Dress MM and their Show and Tell today...Bring it tomorrow!!! Get those pledges!!

Boosterthon News!

Hey Parents!!

I am sure you have heard about the Boosterthon Pep Rally and the Booster-team, super cool guys who are visiting our classrooms handing out prizes!! But, the Boosterthon is a fundraiser for our school. It has raised a lot of money in the past, and we desperately need funds now! Basically, your child will get pledges for the number of laps they run. Most children run 30-35 laps, so a pledge of $1 will end up being approximately $35. (It is not our normal track, but a smaller one set up on the baseball fields.) Or, you may collect flat donations instead of pledges.

In addition to the individual prizes your child receives from the Booster-team, we have class goals. The kids helped me come up with these so they are super excited! If the class has the amounts below pledged, they get these prizes…

· $10—Show and Tell

· $20—Dress the Teacher…they get to bring silly items (hats, scarves, sunglasses, etc.) for me to put on to take a picture. J

· $30—Movie Day!

· $40—Game Day… afternoon only J

· $50—Picnic Lunch outside

· $70—Extra Free Play Time

· $90—Make a silly class DVD to travel like a take-home book

· $110—Ice Cream Party

· $130—Mr. Kelley will bring Mickey Mouse (Neal Thomas’ miniature horse) for pony rides!!!! JJJJ

As you can imagine, the kids are super excited about this fundraiser. Please help them call family and friends in order to get pledges. All money will be collected the week after spring break…that should give your family and friends plenty of time to send in their commitments.

Let me know if you have any questions! Thanks for your support!

J Captain Miller J

Quick Update for this week!

Hey Parents!

Last week was a fun, wild week filled with extra activities as we celebrated Dr. Seuss and Read Across America Week! Because of these extra activities, I do not feel I taught our Storytown lesson very well. Plus, I introduced a lot of new centers—which the kids caught on to very well—but center time required a lot of my attention and support so I was not able to pull reading groups as often as I normally do. So, I decided to give the kids (and you) a break on our Storytown Lesson and Spelling Words. I will be re-teaching the spelling rules and vocabulary words from last week. I am also excited to use this week to teach some fun comprehension lessons that we rarely have time for!! We will have our spelling test THURSDAY because the Fun Run will be Friday morning.

This week will be full of fun activities as well! The kids are pumped about the Boosterthon and Boosterteam coming to see us each day. We will also do some experiments as we complete our unit on rocks and the Earth’s surface. PLEASE look for notes as the class reaches our Class Incentive Goals…very few remembered to bring items for “Dress the Teacher” and “Show and Tell” today. They will get a chance to do it tomorrow, but please help them remember. They are doing a great job getting pledges…don’t stop! J

As always, thanks for all you do! Let me know if you have any questions! JMM

HOP ON POP Day!!

Don't we look great dressed like our "Pop's!!"

What a fun week...We really should celebrate Read Across America Week every week!

I love these kids!!

Thanks to those who sent extra ties! We had a great day!

Making Models of Sedimentary Rocks...

We used different materials to create models of sedimentary rock. We have learned that the layers of rock, soil, and sand that create sedimentary rock are called strata. We made layers with dry beans, rice, brown sugar, and sand to illustrate the layers in the Earth's crust. This was a great project for OUTSIDE!!


The layers ended up more mixed up than I had hoped, but we learned something and had fun, too!
Most of the boys could not wait to add a layer of sand to the top of their bottle...some girls got pretty dirty too!

Here are my girls who chose not to go to the sand pile...

It looks like Charnayvia got serious in the sandpile, but she is really covered in brown sugar!! Sorry, Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy!!

3-D Shapes all around us!

We went on a three dimensional shape hunt (and sort) in class today. Amazingly, all of these items found their place when math was over!