Parents Time Out - Bowling Fun

Last week, we had the wonderful opportunity to take 4 of our favorite friends bowling and out to lunch!  

Thanks to The Bilton Family and The Schauenberg Family for making a generous donation to Hough Street School!

 We ALL had a blast!!

Summer Learning

Happy Summer First Grade Frogs! Did you know that over the summer your teachers have been in school learning and preparing for you? We expect you to practice your reading over the summer, so we take classes to practice our teaching skills! We can't wait to show you all we are learning about this summer. Here are some of the things we are learning and creating in order to make the First Grade Frog classroom the best place to be:

 

SmartBoard lessons

Integrating Music Into Our Classroom

Close Reading Activites for Guided Reading

Blogs and YouTube 

Google sites

Responsive Teaching: Cultural Differences Among Us

Physical activities for math

Common Core Standards 

Digital Reading 

Speaking and Listening for Second Language Learners

We have seen many of you at our Hough Reads Summer book clubs! There are still two more Thursday night book clubs, so please contact Dr. Marks to sign up! It is important for adults to be in book clubs, too! We are in three books clubs of our own. We are reading:

 

Falling in Love with Close Reading

Do the Math! Teaching Primary School Mathematics

Don't forget to check back soon for more posts about our summer happenings and about your first grade frog classroom!

Summer Book Club - The Princess and The Pig

There’s been a terrible mix-up in the royal nursery. Priscilla the princess has accidentally switched places with Pigmella, the farmer’s new piglet. The kindly farmer and his wife believe it’s the work of a good witch, while the ill-tempered King and Queen blame the bad witch—after all, this happens in fairy tales all the time! Priscilla grows up on the farm, poor yet very happy, but things don’t work out quite as readily for a Pigmella. Kissing a frog has worked wonders before, but will it work for a pig? Sure to hog all the attention, this story’s frequent nods to a variety of well-known fairy tales such as Sleeping Beauty, The Frog Princess, and Thumbelina, and hilarious illustrations will delight readers of any age.

Last Day

Summer's Here

Summer's here!

Another year

of school is at an end.

We've learned a lot

and grown a lot

and made a lot

of friends.

We'll say goodbye,

now summer's here,

it's time for us to part.

But we'll remember all our friends

and keep them in our hearts.

Frog Craft

Our special friend and pen-pal from Florida, Emme, sent us a fun frog craft! Check out these almost SECOND graders in action:

 

Thank you for your friendship all year, Emme!