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This video will help you practice Sight Words.

This week we are not having homework as the kids have Spanish exams. Thursday Dec. 1st, 2016 RazKids 3 books

HOMEWORK Tuesday Nov. 22, 2016 Study your Spelling Words for THURSDAY NOVEMBER 24 RazKids  3 books Thursday Nov. 24, 2016 Write about what you are thankful for in your handout RazKids  3 books

HOMEWORK TUESDAY NOV. 15TH, 2016 1. IXL LANGUAGE ARTS:   ONLY   J.1 The link is: www.ixl.com/signin/colegiopeterson 2.Raz Kids: Flight Check : "I Can Help" HOMEWORK THURSDAY NOV. 17TH, 2016 Choose 5 words from your list and write one sentence with each word chosen in your Spelling notebook. RazKids 2 books

HOMEWORK Tuesday November 8th., 2016 RazKids 3 books Cut your words and put them in a Ziplock bag.  We will be playing with the words. Thursday November 10th., 2016 RazKids 3 books FRIENDLY REMINDER: Work on your puppet. DUE DATE NOVEMBER 15th. 2016.

These are the lists of words. 1o. A Group 1 cup, let, six, hid, pop, not, pet, mix, his, mud, ten, yes, miss, cub, hot, wet, bus, bell, bug, get, sun Group 2 cheese, house, hose, shop, ham, sheep, chain, shave, chop, shed, chief, shoe, chimney, cherry, hat 1o. B Group 1 cheese, house, hose, shop, ham, sheep, chain, shave, chop, shed, chief, shoe, chimney, cherry, hat Group 2 rock, smoke, toe, mop, web, road, nose, dot, robe, lock, goat, fox, ghost, coat, soap, top, hose, clock, boat, box

To access IXL click on the shortcut located in the right bar of this blog. Here is the new link, usernames and passwords remain the same.  The only change was  @colegiopeterson instead of @pedregal www.ixl.com/signin/colegiopeterson

Raz Kids  Assignment You just need to click on LEVEL UP, and read the books assigned there: The Mitten  Polly Gets Out

HOMEWORK Tuesday October 25th. 2016 RazKids 3 books  Finish the drawing of your room. · Start thinking about the way you want to make the puppet of your character (Super     Heroe) . YOU NEED TO BRING YOUR PUPPET FOR NOVEMBER 15TH. 2016 Tuesday October 25th. 2016 RazKids 3 books 

Thanks First Grade A!   Our windows turned out very nice! We all learned a lot about this interesting country! 

Mindfulness:   We all want to be happy and a way to help ourselves to be joyful is to be aware of the moment we are living. Mindfulness:  A mental state achieved by focusing one´s awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one´s feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations, used as therapeutic technique. This is a link , I have been using with the kids in the classroom before we start our day: calm.com

HOMEWORK  Tuesday Oct. 18, 2016 Choose 5 words from your Words their Way list and write 5 sentences with them.  1st Grade A We will decorate our windows for the United Nations Day of NEW ZEALAND, they can bring images of New Zealand's flag, coin, and landmarks they like of the country for THURSDAY  OCTOBER 20th . We are watching videos and learning interesting facts about this interesting country.  THURSDAY OCT. 20 th 2016 STUDY YOUR LIST OF WORDS THEIR WAY. 

WORDS THEIR WAY LISTS These are the four lists that we started working. 1st grade "A" 1A- 1 oct.1 zip, bit, but, big, jug, pin, tub, rip, will, him, cut, rub, hum,win, fun, six, nut, put, did, gum 1A- 2 oct.1 chimney, heart, cherry, comb, chin, hat, chick, coat, chief, horn, check, cake, candy, hook, chop 1st grade "B" 1B- 1 oct.1 chimney, heart, cherry, comb, chin, hat, chick, coat, chief, horn, check, cake, candy, hook, chop 1B- 2 oct.1 vine, fish, pie, drive, slide, hive, lips, nine, smile, dive, fire, hill, five, twins, zipper, first, bride, swim, lid, net WORDS THEIR WAY QUIZ  Wednesday October 19th, 2016. HOMEWORK Tuesday October 11th, 2016. Write your Spelling Words, 3 times with 3 different colors. IMPORTANT!!! If you see that it is taking longer than 20 minutes, stop the writing and we will continue in class tomorrow. Thursday October 13th, 2016. RazKids 3 books. Write the title of the books in your Reading...

We are still working in complete sentences.  This video is about VERBS!

HOMEWORK Tuesday and Thursday : NO HOMEWORK You can watch the videos I have posted and read in RazKids. WORDS THEIR WAY The kids have only copied the new words and will be practicing in class.  They will be able to play Spelling City until next week.

Enjoy this video and learn more about sentences!

WORDS THEIR WAY TEST MONDAY OCTOBER 3, 2016 HOMEWORK Tuesday Sept. 27, 2016 SPELLING CITY :  https://www.spellingcity.com/missadri/ Play with your words depending your classroom and group for 15 minutes. Look for your list and play: 1o. A 1a-1 Vowel sound "a" and "o" 1a-2  "S" "H" "SH" 1o.B   1b-1  "S" "H" "SH" 1b-2  Long "a" and short "a"  RazKids 2 books Thursday Sept. 29, 2016 Finish your handwriting handout, don´t forget to use red in the capital letters.

IMPORTANT Yesterday´s homework caused a lot of anxiety and comments in the chat that will only confuse the group and the kids. 1. HOMEWORK should not take longer than 20 to 30 minutes the most.  (If it is taking longer, there must be something wrong.) 2. Homework is a way to check what has been seen during class, they don´t take notebooks home unless homework needs to be done in the notebook. IXL As I told you in our Open House, IXL is practicing and it is your child´s work.  We can help them and guide them of course. WE STOP THE WORK AFTER 15 MINUTES, THEY DO NOT HAVE TO GET A 100 ALL THE TIME. This will allow me to see that we need more practice and where I should help the kids even more. WORDS THEIR WAY Our new program for Spelling works differently as it has been mentioned in yesterday´s  "CIRCULAR PETERSON 22 de Septiembre". Please check. Students will get a list that is being worked in class according to their needs thus having different w...

Hi everyone! Today we will be practicing IXL. This is a fun video to watch before practicing IXL. Have a great afternoon!

HOMEWORK  Tuesday Sept. 20th, 2016. Choose 2 or 3 books of Razkids and write in your Reading Record :  Title:  And in Comments include: Main Characters: Supporting Characters: Thursday Sept. 22, 2016 IXL  Complete sentences 

Ana Victoria!!!!

MAP TESTS Today we had our Reading MAP test. MATH MAP test:  Monday September 19th, 2016 HOMEWORK Tuesday September 13th, 2016 Razkids 2 books or more and assignment: September Homework Thursday September 15th, 2016 No Homework

HOMEWORK Tuesday Sept. 6, 2016 ·Count by ones to 100. ·Bring a picture of your family for next Thursday. Thursday Sept. 8th., 2016 · Make a poster about everything you like about Mexico. We will start sharing our posters next Monday September 12th. 2016 · Please read the handout about Learning to read, that will be in your kids´ Reading Notebook. It has decoding strategies to help when reading with and to your kids. We started working on that in class. Adriana

Hello! This is a nice video to watch in parts. It has high frequency words that are found in books.  Kids will enjoy watching it,  practice their reading and learning new vocabulary. Enjoy!

100 WORDS Hi!!! Practicee reading these words:

FIRST GRADERS SUPER HEROES Welcome!  I am very happy to have your kids in First Grade, I am sure we will learn a lot and have fun. We are a team in this adventure. Thanks for your support and confidence. I will be posting the homework, photos and the latest news.  You will find the shortcuts for the sites we will be using and my recommendations. Thanks!! Adriana Casillas

MOVING UP CEREMONY!!! Thank you !  VERO! PILI!  DINNER WITH FIRST GRADE B MOMS !  Thanks moms for the great time we had yesterday!!! You are awesome!  Working with your kids was an amazing and enriching adventure. I learn a lot and had a great time. I will truly miss them!  MY FIRST GRADERS ROCK!!!!!

Regina!!! !  Santiago ! 

You can go to the link above and print the beautiful pictures of your kids and friends. 

CONGRATS!!! All First Graders did great!  

SPELLING WORDS unhappy, untie, undo, reopen, retell, refill, unkind, undress, repay, refund HOMEWORK Tuesday June 14th. 2016 IXL Language Arts U.1, U.2, V.3 Spelling City Razkids: 3 books * Make sure you bring a small photo of yourself for your memory book Thursday June 16th. 2016 RazKids Spelling City

Quick review!!!

We are learning about CONTRACTIONS!

Hope you enjoy learning this song

SPELLING WORDS saw, draw, crawl, straw, law, jaw, paw, lawn, yawn, hawk END OF THE YEAR  As you may recall, we don`t have final exams in English. We have MAP testing. Kids will be graded with classwork,Spelling tests,  IXL, homework,  special assignments in RazKids and a special writing project.  HOMEWORK Tuesday May 31st, 2016 Spelling City RazKids 3 books  IXL: E1, E2, E3, E4  (You have until Friday to finish these exercises) Remember don`t stay longer than 15 minutes on each assignment. Thursday June 2nd, 2016 Spelling City RazKids 3 books  Study for Spelling Test Watch the NonfictionText Features Video

A week ago I gave you your Spelling List.  You can laminate it.  We will start practicing this week without the list, so please make sure you study 30 words each day. GOOD LUCK! 

Answer your Describe It! Handout Pick any object from your house or go outside to your garden and pick up something interesting to describe.   Use your Describing Words Cube.   If you want you can describe more than one object. 

Watch the video. It is really helpful for Nonfiction Texts

There are no words to express all my gratitude for my beautiful presents!  The Liverpool gift card, from all of you, will surely make a good shopping day!  Thanks for letting me share with you this adventure, the adventure of learning from each of your kids, the adventure of sharing precious moments with each little one in my classroom!  Thanks! Thanks! Thanks!  Adriana 

MAY 16 to MAY 20th, 2016 We are getting ready for the Family Day! We are so happy to share with you all that we have been learning about Food Evolution and it affected Human Evolution.  SPELLING WORDS book, moon, took, food, look, pool, zoo, noon, good, foot The Spelling test will be on Tuesday May 24th, 2016. HOMEWORK Tuesday May 17, 2016 IXL I.1 IXL I.2 You can check your notes in Language notebook Thursday May 19, 2016 REST and GET READY FOR OUR FAMILY DAY!!!

HOMEWORK  TUESDAY MAY 10 th., 2016 Enjoy and take care of mom!  HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!! Thursday 12th. 2016 Study Spelling Words

SPELLING WORDS how, town, down, now, brown, cow, clown, frown, crowd, growl HOMEWORK May 3rd, 2016 RazKids: Choose one nonfiction and copy the table of contents, if your book doesn't have a Table of Contents, please copy the title and the author of the book. And read any other 2 stories so you have the 3 books of Tuesday. Spelling City http://www.spellingcity.com/missadri/ May 5th, 2016 Study for Spelling Test FIRST GRADE B Today the kids are taking home the topics they need to investigate about. Please make sure it is information for kids and that they understand. Some good sites are:  kids.nationalgeographic.com historyforkids.net Kidzsearch.com

We will be using these words along this unit ROAD TO KNOWLEDGE.  We are learning about how informational texts help us to learn about the world and how researchers investigate topics that interest them. CORE WORDS caption category cover  diagram electronic menu fact fiction glossary  heading icon nonfiction illustration  informational text opinion photograph predict section table of contents text features title observe evidence experiment research

NO SPELLING WORDS THIS WEEK HOMEWORK TUESDAY 26th, 2016 Bring $3.00 for Cruz Roja RazKids 3 books Illustrate the core word I gave you . Use a letter size paper. You can make a drawing or print the image from the computer. Don`t forget to include the word.

ADVERBS In Language we are learning more about WOW WORDS: ADVERBS Watch the videos to help you understand better.

SPELLING WORDS slowly, careful, quickly, useful, painful, playful, sadly, gladly, nicely, wonderful HOMEWORK Tuesday April 19th, 2016 IXL P4 and P5 SPELLING CITY RAZ KIDS 3 books Thursday April 21, 2016. Study Spelling Words What do you remember about the video we watched? What would you like to investigate about it?

Hello!  We have this new handout to complete. We are calling this activity WORD WORK, your kids would benefit from having a Children's   Dictionary or Picture Dictionary.  They need to complete the missing information. Thanks! 

SPELLING WORDS Compound Words backpack, outside, baseball, herself, flashlight, bluebird, lunchbox, suitcase, inside, brainstorm HOMEWORK Tuesday April12th, 2016 Spelling City WORD WORK RazKids 3 books Thursday April14th, 2016 Study Spelling

SPELLING WORDS lie, tie, high, might, right, night, bright, light, pie, tight HOMEWORK TUESDAY APRIL 5, 2016. RazKids 3 books Choose 2 fiction books and 1 non fiction ( informational) Spelling City Laminate your Writing Checklist for next Thursday Study Long "o" Words  THURSDAY APRIL 7, 2016. Study long "I" Words for Spelling test RazKids

Readers create story murals to share what they know about fantasy.