Mrs. Jost's Kindergarten Class

Welcome to First Grade 2020-2021

2020-09-10T11:16:00.002-07:00

I am so happy we can be back in the classroom! We've been busy learning how to be a first grader at MLE! Check back here daily to keep up with the latest and greatest first grade info!

A couple things:

You will find in your child's binder an orange sheet talking about signing up for our classroom Bloomz account. Please get signed in ASAP so you do not miss upcoming reminders and some fun pictures of our first grade happenings! Let me know if you have any questions getting singed in. This app will primarily be just for our parent communication. We will continue to use Seesaw as the year progresses as well. Watch for more info at a later date.

Masks: Please make sure your child has their "school" mask with if possible- these we use for recess/lunch and phyed time. This way when they get outside or get to the lunch room or the gym they can pull their masks down and not worry about dropping or losing them. Many kids use "gaiters" as well. These work great for the same reason- the kids can just pull them down when not needed. I really appreciate your help with this. We have been doing a great job and get many breaks through out the day. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns regarding the masks.

Parent Night: Sometime in the near future (has not been set yet) I would like to have a parent meeting over Zoom to go over things that make our first grade class special. This will be a time I will go over procedures and what to expect this year. Watch for more info soon.

Thanks for letting me share your AMAZING group of kiddos! It will be a FABULOUS year!

Annie Jost

josta@maplelake.k12.mn.us

Distance Learning Plan for First Grade

2020-03-20T08:30:00.000-07:00

Hello Families,

Our classrooms will be using SeeSaw to facilitate learning during this time away from the school building. Below you will find your directions on how to log into SeeSaw for learning. Please help your child get logged in to their SeeSaw account. We would like all students to be logged into their SeeSaw Account by Tuesday, March 24th, so that we can offer assistance to anyone who needs help logging in.We have included a separate paper with your child’s SeeSaw login code.

It is required that you login to SeeSaw each day. We are taking attendance each day and submitting it to the office. Here are the steps you will need to take to get your child ready:

Here are other apps we will be using:

Sum Dog- Your child has played this game at school. Your child came home with their login code already, if you need another copy please let us know. Please keep it in a safe place. https://www.sumdog.com/user/sign_in.

Moby Max- Your child took the quick assessment in class (if they were here) so the website knows where your child’s learning level is. They can work on these lessons at their own pace. If your child was not at school the day we took the placement test they can do that from home as well. https://www.mobymax.com/signin

Epic- This will be how your child will get new Book Bag books. Your child’s books will be at their reading level. You may notice the books may be one reading level lower than the level we are reading at school, that way they are successful at home with you. https://www.getepic.com/sign-in

RAZ Kids- Learning A-Z- This is also another resource for you to use for reading. This login was sent home or is included with this letter as well. https://www.kidsa-z.com

Handwriting Without Tears- We are still needing to continue our handwriting curriculum. Your child’s handwriting was sent home, it is yellow. Each classroom may be at a different place in the handwriting book. Another thing you could use to practice handwriting is the app called wet, dry, try. You can practice capital and lowercase letters as well as numbers. Be sure your child is start

ing at the top of the letter.

Here are some important things to know:

1. Our classroom materials/lessons can be found on SeeSaw. We will assign different work each day.

2. You will need to sign in each day, we are still taking attendance.

3. Thank you for being flexible. We understand that not everyone will be able to do their school work during school hours, so we will look at if you were active in the account the following day. For example, if you did your work at 6:00 Monday night, we would check the Daily Check In on SeeSaw Tuesday morning.

How to get in touch with us:

If you have any reason you need to get in touch with us please send us an email. Please email your child’s teacher and we will get back to you as soon as possible. Here are our email:

a. Mrs. Kolehmainen - kolehmainent@maplelake.k12.mn.us

b. Mrs. Schmitz - schmitzs@maplelake.k12.mn.us

c. Mrs. Jost - josta@maplelake.k12.mn.us

Call our school number and leave a voicemail.

a. Mrs. Kolehmainen - 320-963-7458

b. Mrs. Schmitz - 320-963-7472

c. Mrs. Jost - 320-963-7476

We know getting logged in and signed up for things like this can be frustrating. Please email any questions you have, and we will get it figured out together. We appreciate your patience and understanding. Together we can ensure your child continues to learn even though they are not “at school.”

~The First Grade Team

Tuesday, March 3rd

2020-03-03T11:19:00.000-08:00

Math: We started our unit on graphing- today was picture graphs

Phonics: Long o and short o vowel sort

Read Aloud: Flat Stanley

Centers- reading assessments

Phy Ed today!

Writing: How to/procedural stories

S.M.A.R.T. Room

Monday, March 2nd!

2020-03-02T11:29:00.000-08:00

I'm back....kind of! :) I will be back this week in the afternoons. After a full day back I realized that might be a little too much too quickly so Mrs. Spaulding will be here the rest of the week in the mornings.

Math: Dr. Seuss math

Phonics: ow sound in words such as yellow, bowl, crow, grow

Read Aloud: Penguins

Centers- Assessments. I will be assessing the kids this week on their reading levels for report cards.

Music Today!

Writing: We started our new writing unit "Procedural writing." " How to's"

Handwriting

Spelling words:

made

over

may

part

new

Tuesday, February 4th

2020-02-04T11:03:00.000-08:00

Math: Measuring- using the words long, longer, longest, tall, taller, tallest, short, shorter, shortest.

Phonics: Blend sort-- Bl, Br. Gr, Gl

Read Aloud: Summer of the Sea Serpent

Music Today!

Reading- making inferences using the story

The Three Shapely Pigs

Writing: Opinion writing- reading our stories to our partners. Fluency- making our reading sound like we are talking.

Monday, February 3rd

2020-02-03T11:08:00.000-08:00

Math: We started our next Unit on measuring. We reviewed the words : measure, short, shorter, tall, taller, long, longer

Even and odd numbers

Read Aloud: We started Flat Stanley

Centers/Guided Reading

Phy Ed today!

Reading: Making inferences

Phonics: oa vowel team

Handwriting

Spelling words:

number

way

could

Reminder: Hat day tomorrow!

Friday, January 31st

2020-01-31T10:39:00.003-08:00

Spelling Test

Math: Groundhog's day data collecting and graphing activity.

Mystery picture- finding numbers

ABC order- groundhog's day

Read Aloud: Summer of the Sea Serpent

Centers

Music Today

Technology today!

Friday Fun!

Thursday, January 30th

2020-01-30T11:10:00.002-08:00

Math: Subtraction story problems using bigger numbers.

Phonics: igh - poetry notebook

Read Aloud: Summer of the Sea Serpent

Centers/Guided Reading

Phy Ed today!

Character Education- we had our first lesson with Mrs. Weninger this afternoon! We will have character education every Thursday at 1:40-2:00. We are very excited to have her come in! :)

Writing: Opinion writing

I Love to Read Month

We have a lot of exciting things planned for February. A calendar went home with the oldest child who chose paper. Here are a few of the exciting things to look forward to:

Hat day- Feb 4

Rise and Read- Feb 7

Pajama day- Feb 7

Late start- Feb 11

Valentines day- wear pink, red,&white

NO SCHOOL- Feb 17-President's day

Author visit and talk- Feb 19

Flashlight reading- bring a flashlight from home- Feb 20

Camo day- Feb 21

Pizza and Bingo night- Feb 27

Bingo and Movie Day (Rango) Feb 28

Dress as your favorite book character- Feb 28

Tuesday, January 28th

2020-01-28T14:17:00.001-08:00

Math: Subtraction with regrouping- "When there's more on the floor, go next door and get 10 more." We use this to help us remember to borrow from the Tens column.

Read Aloud: Summer of the Sea Serpent

Centers- Reading assessments

Phy Ed today!

Phonics: vowel team- ea

Cleaning/organizing the classroom

Monday, January 27th

2020-01-27T18:49:00.004-08:00

Math: Subtracting numbers to 20 without regrouping.

Read Aloud: Pig the Fibber and we started our next Magic Tree House book (thank you Penelope) Summer of the Sea Serpent

Centers- Reading assessments

Music today!

Handwriting: lowercase c and o

Spelling words:

two

write

see

Friday, January 24th

2020-01-24T11:06:00.000-08:00

Math: Review of doubles/doubles + 1

Chinese New Year- We learned about the Chinese New year and made our own Dragons!

Read Aloud: We finished

Haunted Castle on Hallows Eve

Centers- Reading assessments!

Phy Ed today!

Technology today!

Friday Fun!

Thursday, January 23rd

2020-01-23T08:37:00.000-08:00

Library today!

Math: Additions story problems and addition assessment

Read Aloud: Haunted Castle on Hallows Eve

Centers- Reading assessments

Music Today!

Phonics: vowel teams

Writing: Opinion writing- start with a hook, then oreo sandwich. (Opinion stated, 3 reasons, and end with your opinion restated.) We are great writers!

REMINDERS:

Rise and Read- On Friday, February 7th we will have our "Rise and Read" event. A green paper went home last week and yesterday about this fun event! Bring your family- whoever can attend- before school from 7:30-8:00 to share some muffins and juice and most important- share a good book together! We are asking for RSVP slips to be returned by tomorrow January 24th to make sure we have enough treats. Please consider attending this event! I hope to see many of you there! Let me know if you have questions!

Wednesday, January 22nd

2020-01-22T11:19:00.001-08:00

Art Today!

Math: Counting on. Start with the biggest number and count on from there. Ex 12+ 5= Start at 12 and count on 5 from there.

Writing: Opinion writing

Read Aloud: Haunted Castle on Hallows Eve

Centers- reading assessments

Phy Ed today!

Phonics: ee sounds

Library tomorrow- bring your books!

Friday is Bubble gum day! If your child wishes to chew gum they can bring in $1 and their own gum to chew. All proceeds go to a local animal shelter.

Tuesday, January 21st

2020-01-21T11:15:00.000-08:00

Math: Make a 10 then add, number writing to 120

Writing: Opinion writing- adding a "hook" to hook the reader!

Read Aloud: Haunted Castle on Hallows Eve

Centers- During centers this week, I will be assessing reading levels so your child will have a new book but we will not have had a time to read it. I will be assessing all week. I'm looking forward to sharing with you all they have learned. :)

Music Today!

Writing Assessment this afternoon. I will be looking for complete sentences, starting with a capital, punctuation as well as how many sounds they hear.

S.M.A.R.T. Room Today!

Spelling words:

his

into

time

has

look

Thursday, January 16th

2020-01-16T08:34:00.002-08:00

Math: Making 10 and then add. This was an introduction today because we have so many students absent today. We will work more on this within the next few days.

Library today!

Read Aloud: Haunted Castle on Hallows Eve

Centers/Guided Reading

Writing: Opinion writing

Phonics: Poetry folder- ai words

Reminders:

Spelling test tomorrow- Friday

NO SCHOOL -Monday January 20th- Teacher workshop day

Conferences- the conference times were sent home in Wednesday envelopes, please let me know ASAP if this day/time does not work.

Wednesday, January 15th

2020-01-15T11:08:00.005-08:00

Art today!

Math: Doubles review and Doubles +1.

Phonics: ai vowel team

Read Aloud: Haunted Castle on All Hallows Eve

Centers/Guided Reading

Phy Ed today!

Writing: Fact vs. Opinion and opinion writing

Reading: inflectional endings- s, es, ing, ed

Upcoming Reminders:

Library tomorrow- Thursday

NO SCHOOL- Monday, January 20th- Teacher Workshop day!

Conferences- January 28th and 30th- Conference times are being sent home today in Wednesday envelopes. If this day/time does not work for you, please let me know ASAP so we can work something out.

Tuesday, January 14th

2020-01-14T11:07:00.001-08:00

Late start today! We had our Irish Pride Celebration this morning and out to recess by 10:50 so it was a very short morning!

Read Aloud: Haunted Castle on All Hallows Eve

Centers/Guided Reading

Music Today!

Writing: Opinion Writing

Handwriting

S.M.A.R.T. Room

Monday, January 13th

2020-01-13T09:40:00.001-08:00

Welcome Ms. LaFave! Our student teacher started today! She will be with us all week and then only on Mondays until March. After March she will finish the year with us! We are very excited to have her!

Math: Doubles Bingo and practice.

Phonics: Poetry folder- ee

Read Aloud: We started #30 of our Magic Tree House book- Haunted Castle on Hallows Eve.

Centers/ Guided Reading

Phy Ed today!

Reading: Performing our Readers theaters today.

Writing: Opinion writing

Handwriting

Spelling words:

some

her

would

make

Thursday, January 9th

2020-01-09T08:35:00.000-08:00

Math: More work with Doubles and Doubles +1.

Library today!

Read Aloud: Mercy Watson to the Rescue

Centers/Guided Reading

Phy Ed today!

Reading: Readers Theater practice with our groups

HS play- We went up to the High School auditorium to watch the HS drama present their play.

Reminders:

Friday- Spelling Test

NO SCHOOL- Monday, January 20th- Teacher Workshop day

Wednesday, January 8th

2020-01-08T11:11:00.002-08:00

Math: Doubles plus 1

Spelling words: We practiced giving our partner the spelling words.

Read Aloud: Mercy Watson to the Rescue

Centers/Guided Reading

Music Today!

Reading: Practice our Readers Theaters with our groups

Writing: Intro opinion writing

Science with Mrs. Schmitz

Tuesday, January 7th

2020-01-07T11:07:00.002-08:00

Math: Calendar/ Doubles

NWEA reading test this morning.

Read Aloud: Mercy Watson to the Rescue

Phy Ed today!

Reading: Readers Theater

Social Studies with Mrs. Kolehmainen

Spelling words:

many

them

then

these