A Hint of Spring!

Mrs. Wilaby
Apr 13, 2018
2 min read

Well the week started off with snow and ended with no coats at recess! It is finally feeling like spring, and our first graders are full of energy and excitement! This week in our class, we continued learning about personal narrative writing and began planning out our own personal narrative stories. We wrapped up our communities long ago unit in social studies, and our graphing/data unit in math. Our class pets began their transformations into chrysalises and will be hanging out for a while until they turn into butterflies! We ended the week with a school wide popcorn and movie celebration!

Please see our "Need to Knows" below for important upcoming events and reminders! As always, please contact me with any questions and check out our Facebook page for daily updates!

First Grade Need to Knows

Upcoming Events/Reminders

McTeacher Night at McDonald’s (by the airport) from 5:00 – 8:00

Mrs. Wilaby will be volunteering from 6-7pm!

Cedar Valley Humane Society Fundraiser

Thank you everyone who donated to our Cedar Valley Humane Society Fundraiser! As a building, we raised over $140 to help animals in need! Thanks for your support!

Upcoming Guest Teacher Days

I have been really fortunate this year to not have to be out of the classroom very much, however, April has brought me many professional opportunities to grow, so I will be out of the classroom for a few days and wanted to let you all know ahead of time to help prep your first grader to have a great day with a guest teacher.

I am so very excited to share with you that I have been asked to speak at the Iowa ASCD Curriculum Leadership Academy in Des Moines on April 20th. I will be sharing some of the innovative things your first graders have been doing in our classroom (I always tell them, I spend a great deal of time bragging about all the great things they do, so now I get to brag about them to a larger group of people!). I will also be participating in some training and curriculum revision teams for a few days. Below are the dates I will be gone.

April 19th-20th - ASCD Conference

April 23rd Afternoon - District Revision Team Work

April 24th Morning - Dr's Appointment for Baby (We get our big ultrasound!)

April 30th - State Testing Administration

May 2nd-3rd - MTSS Training

Next Week’s Specials Schedule

Monday- Music

Tuesday- PE

Wednesday- Spanish

Thursday- Art

Friday- Music

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU… April Birthdays