Mrs. Bilangino's Fantastic First Graders!

This week we really got into our math centers and I wanted to share a few photos of the kiddos hard at work. These photos were of Wednesday's math centers. One group was working on Dreambox, one group did a math journal page and then was playing an independent game to practice tens frames and tally marks, and in my center we went over counting by 5's or by 2's and then the students practiced putting numbers in order with a partner. The children go to every center during math and they work on differentiated skills at my center and the independent center.  The kiddos had so much fun and learned a lot! Here are a few photos from Wednesday: On Wednesday we also had our first Pep Rally. Our class was announced for earning 50 and 100 paws! We also learned a lot about our school matrix and how to show respect in school, outside and on the bus. Here is our class and many others listening to Mrs. Beldotti at the pep rally: 

Hello Families, I put up a Donor's Choose Project for headphones for our classroom. If you would like to share the link to friends and family I would really appreciate it. Here is the link:  Headphones Donor's Choose I will also be sending home login information for students to play games on the EM4 Website. Each child has an individual password. Here is the website:   EM4 Games Thank you, Mrs. Bilangino

Thank you to all of the families who were able to come meet with me at Open House last night! It was really nice to meet all of you and go over the upcoming school year. For anyone who missed last night or would like to look at the slideshow I am attaching it here. Open House Slide Show I also sent two sets of papers home in your child's folders. There is an acceptable use form for the internet as well as school compact. If you could please fill these forms and return them if you did not already do so at the Open House. Thank you! This week we had our first full week of school and it went very well! We have continued to work on learning our routines and rules. We are up to 13 minutes of independent reading, 10 minutes of writing as well as 10 minute of buddy reading. I'm so impressed with all of the kiddos. We also began doing math centers. In the math centers I meet with one group of students while other children are on the iPads playing math games and one group play...

Hi Families, We had a great four days last week in school! We worked on building our reading stamina. Students in class were able to pick a special spot in the room to read to self. On our first day we could only read for 3 minutes without anyone stopping, but by Friday we were up to 8 minutes!  Here are a few pictures of the kiddos reading to themselves. This Thursday, September 14th, is our Open House. First grade will be from 6:00-6:25 PM. A flier went home in your child's folder on Friday. I hope to see all of you there!

We had a great two days in first grade. We were so busy learning the new rules and routines that I forgot to take any pictures! Sorry about that. Here are a few things we learned/reviewed from Kindergarten: - three ways to read a book -classroom rules -how to transition through centers -how to fill in our math calendar and charts -how to line up -how to walk through the hallways -how to clean up after ourselves at lunch -how to use the behavior chart (hopefully you saw your child's behavior chart and the letter in their folder) -how to use the big playground safely -how to use our markers and glue sticks so they last! We learned a lot new routines, but also had fun! We did an activity comparing walking in the hallway to having marshmallows on our toes. We then talked about our 5 senses and actually had a marshmallow. The kids really liked that activity. Next week we will definitely get into more of the curriculum and start Daily 5 (reading), we will do more math as...