Good Morning Room 4!

Good  morning Room 4! This snow is beautiful, but I am ready for spring! On Friday, we said goodbye to our amazing student teacher, Miss Adamson. She will be moving down the hall to the Literacy Lab to complete the reading portion of her program. We sure will miss her in room 4!

I hope that everyone had a chance to look over their child's report card. I am so excited about the progress we are making in Room 4! I am so sorry about the math grades, I will send home updated math grades today.  Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns.

This week we are beginning a unit on space. We will integrate literacy, science and writing for this unit. If you have space books at home, we would love to borrow them for a couple of weeks.  During our literacy block we will be spending some time working on fluency, the smoothness and flow of our reading. We are going to do being a lot of poetry reading, reader's theater, listening to reading,  and sing a-longs. We will use many of the strategies studied by Dr. Tim Rasinski.

Our math unit this week will focus on fractions.  Fractions are fun to incorporate at home by allowing your child to help in the kitchen.

Thank you all for your continued support. I can't believe we are in our final quarter of 1st grade. Time flies when you are having fun! :) 

What's New in Room 4?

As promised, here is a look at what we are working on in Room4:
Literacy: This week we began our study of non-fiction texts. Students will be reading a variety of non-fiction texts and responding to various organizers and completing activities that support our skill of retelling the key information and supporting details in an informational text. 
Math: This week we completed our Graphing Unit and have not started our Geometry unit.
Science: Miss Adamson has been working with the students on the topic of weather this week. They have studied temperature, clouds, wind and so much more.

Tomorrow AHE will be celebrating the birthday of a very famous author, Dr. Seuss! Dr. Seuss's birthday is nationally recognized as Read Across America Day. As part of this celebration, we have invited some IU student athletes to Room 4 to read-aloud their favorite children's book. Please encourage your child to wear their red & white to honor the creator of, The Cat and the Hat as well as our own Indiana Hoosiers!

Bottles please

Happy Friday Room 4! Miss Adamson is currently working on a weather science unit and is asking students to bring in cleaned out bottles, 2 L work great or soda/water bottles. Watch for more information Monday regarding our upcoming studies.

Valentine's Day

This was playing Minute to Win It. The students were given a Twizzler and had 1 minute to eat the entire thing without using their hands!

Enjoying a fun celebration in Room 4!

Just wanted to share some pics from Valentine's Day. We had a great day in Room 4! Thanks to all who contributed and/or attended and helped. You all are so amazing! :)

Room 4 is on Twitter!

Yay! I am so excited I have linked our blog to Twitter! Woo hoo! I will tweet some of the great things happening in room 4 as well as upcoming events. :)  Follow us @MrsQuimby1st     You can also follow Arlington Heights @AHEeagles  

Technology Night

Technology Night at AHE is tomorrow night. Parents and students are invited back to school between 6-7:30 to visit informative booths that will highlight some of the technology students at AHE are using daily.

Valentine's Day

Love is in the air, and we are excited to celebrate Valentine's Day in Room 4! We will celebrate on Thursday, February 14th around 1:45-2:15. Miss Adamson and I were thinking a sugar cookie party would be fun. We are seeking donations of sugar cookies, as well and yummy decorations (icing, sprinkles,...) We are also thinking it would be fun to work on a craft for our party. I have been digging through Pinterst and I think I have a few ideas. If you have an idea, please let me know. I am sending home a class list today.  I am hoping to get to Target this weekend to  see if they still have the adorable tiny mailboxes for each child to collect their cards, if not we will make some cute bags.I will keep you posted as I hear from parents. Thank you! :)