Mrs. Cox's Fantastic Frog Friends

Marvelous May!!!

Can you believe it...only three weeks left! So many fun things to do this month!

May 5th- Happy 80th Birthday Mountain View!!

May 6th- Going to the zoo! Please wear class shirts...

May 9th- Animal Research Projects due! I can't wait to see them! All books due to the library...

May 12th- AR Picnic

May 14th- Field Day! Wear class shirts!

May 20th- Awards Day...Hope to see you here! More details to come!

May 22nd- End of the year celebration

May 23rd-Last Day of school! :)

This has been such an amazing year! Thank you for a great year and lots of fun memories! Have a wonderful summer!

A Look at April!

Spring Has Sprung!

April's here and with it comes bees, flowers, birds and the CRCT test!!! :)  PLEASE be sure that you are taking the practice tests online as the CRCT is rapidly approaching.  The dates will be April 23-25. We're working so hard in here and we really appreciate all the work you've been doing at home. :)

Here's what else we'll be working on this month:

Math: 3 digit addition, (8+1+2) measurement with nonstandard units and review, review, review!!!!

Science: animals (their basic needs, classifying them, body coverings, how they move and where they live)

Important dates:

April 7-11: SPRING BREAK!! Yeah!

April 23-25: CRCT!!!

A  VERY special thanks to Mrs. McDonnell and Mrs. Berger for the WONDERFUL Junior Achievement lessons that they provided for us.  We really appreciate your hard work! :)

April's here and with it comes bees, flowers, birds and the CRCT test!!! :)  PLEASE be sure that you are taking the practice tests online as the CRCT is rapidly approaching.  The dates will be April 23-25. We're working so hard in here and we really appreciate all the work you've been doing at home. :)

Here's what else we'll be working on this month:

Math: 3 digit addition, (8+1+2) measurement with nonstandard units and review, review, review!!!!

Science: animals (their basic needs, classifying them, body coverings, how they move and where they live)

Important dates:

April 7-11: SPRING BREAK!! Yeah!

April 23-25: CRCT!!!

A  VERY special thanks to Mrs. McDonnell and Mrs. Berger for the WONDERFUL Junior Achievement lessons that they provided for us.  We really appreciate your hard work! :)

Silent Auction!

Our school silent auction is coming up on March 27th...  Mrs. Clatterbaugh, Mrs. Wolsh and I have teamed up to be auctioned off...  we will be auctioning a "Sundae" party...  :)  Come bid on us and help out our foundation! It will be lots of fun!

Important Reminders!!!

More CRCT practice

I hope that you are feeling very comfortable with the content of what you are seeing on the CRCT practice tests online. Here's another site that has some printable test and even a practice bubbling sheet. Please be sure that you are practicing online each week for at least 20-30 minutes.

Click here: http://www.henry.k12.ga.us/uge/crct04.htm

Date Change--Movie on the Mount

Due to the expected cold weather on Saturday, Movie on the Mount has been moved to Saturday, March 29. Hope you can make it!

Silent Auction- Please remember to send in any items for the Silent Auction. Hope to see you there on March 27th!

I hope that you are feeling very comfortable with the content of what you are seeing on the CRCT practice tests online. Here's another site that has some printable test and even a practice bubbling sheet. Please be sure that you are practicing online each week for at least 20-30 minutes.

Click here: http://www.henry.k12.ga.us/uge/crct04.htm

Date Change--Movie on the Mount

Due to the expected cold weather on Saturday, Movie on the Mount has been moved to Saturday, March 29. Hope you can make it!

Silent Auction- Please remember to send in any items for the Silent Auction. Hope to see you there on March 27th!

Due to the expected cold weather on Saturday, Movie on the Mount has been moved to Saturday, March 29. Hope you can make it!

Silent Auction- Please remember to send in any items for the Silent Auction. Hope to see you there on March 27th!

March, March, March!

This month, we will be focusing on preparing for the CRCT. Please be sure that your child is taking the practice tests on the computer. Practice, Practice, Practice! :) Also, in March, we will be learning all about plants, money, animals, and starting an author's study.

A few dates to remember are:

March 4th- Early Release

March 17th- Leprechuan traps are due...more details to come!

March 20th- Report cards going home

Fabulolus February

Wow! Is it really already February?! This month, we will be learning all about money, time, dental health, shadows and light, informational writing, and continuing to become incredible readers! Some reminders for the month, please continue to encourage your child to take the CRCT practice tests on the computer. Practice, Practice, Practice! Some upcoming dates to remember:

Feb. 6th- Early Release

Feb. 7th- Picture Day!

Feb. 14th- Valentine boxes due! More details to come...

Feb. 18th- no school

Feb. 19- teacher workday/ no school

Feb. 22nd- Six Flags reading logs due!

Feb. 26th- Technology Night- Hope to see you there!

Happy 2008!

I hope everyone had a wonderful and safe winter break! We will be very busy in January! We will be starting to work with addition and subtraction facts to 18, fractions, shadows and light, money, synonyms, weather, and writing informational paragraphs! WOW!

Don't forget that we have no school on the 21st and January 22nd- 28th is Conference week! Each day will be an early release day. If anyone could send in Clorox wipes or dry erase markers, it would be greatly appreciated!  Also, to start our year off fresh, please send in an extra box of crayons for your child. Thanks so much!

Diving into December!!!

We have lots of fun celebrations and activities planned for December! I am so excited to let you know that everyone has made the AR wall! They have really worked so hard! Read, Read, Read!!!!

December 3rd- AR Picnic!

December 6th- World of Coke

December 14th- We will be creating gingerbread houses! Please come join us!

December 17th- Canada Rotation- we will be visiting other first grade classrooms to learn many new things about Canada.

December 20th- Winter Celebration! More details to come! :)

December 21st- Sing-a-long for all the Mountain View students! Wear your favorite PJ's!

This month, we will be learning all about magnets, Canada, homophones, patriotic symbols, verbs, addition and subtraction facts to 12, greater than and less than, and positional words.

Moving fast into November!!!

A Peek at some exciting activities and events coming up!

Nov. 5th and 6th- No school- student holidays!

Nov. 14th- First grade Thanksgiving play at 9:30 and lunch! Hope to see you there!

Nov. 16- Wear your favorite college attire.....Go Dawgs! :)

Nov. 16th- Wellstar in-house field trip on nutrition

Nov. 21st- 23rd- Happy Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving holidays!

In our classroom, we will be working hard on writing descriptive paragraphs, fact families, shapes, patriotic symbols, long ago and today, nutrition, addition facts, subtraction facts, and Reading, Reading, Reading!!!!

Happy Fall!!!

In October, we have lots of fun activities and events coming up!

October 4th- we are headed to Cagle's!

October 9th- See you at Bruster's for some yummy ice cream!

October 17th- Early Release

October 18th- Smile big! It's picture day!

October 20th- Fall Festival at 12- 3

We will be learning about addition and subtraction, weather, homophones, contractions, ABC order, fact families, writing great paragraphs, and READING, READING, READING! Wow! Are we busy or what?! :)