The end of the year is approaching fast! I cannot believe it is already May. Wow!
That said, please remember to keep reading the Guided Reading/A.R. books nightly. Each child will be pulled by me at the end of the year for a one-on-one reading benchmark.
The children’s nightly reading will help them be successful at reading on their level.
Thank you for your support and understanding.
The week of April the 21st-25th Mrs. Smith’s class will be leading the morning announcements.
Each child will have a turn to say part of the morning announcements. If your child comes home with a strip that has a part of the announcemnts, please help them say it, or rehearse it, so they will be ready when it is their turn to speak.
Thank you,
Mrs. Smith
What a beautiful day for a picnic. We invited the parents of 1st graders to eat lunch with us outside for Texas Public School Week. After we ate, many of the parents stayed and enjoyed with us our favorite time of day-RECESS! The children love when parents come and visit. Thank you so much for coming and enjoying part of our day with us. You are welcome to come anytime. 
This week we have been studying our teeth. We have learned about baby teeth, permanent teeth, how to brush and floss, how many teeth we have, and about going to the dentist. Dr. Zare came to first grade and showed us how to brush and floss and gave us a dental health bag.
Thank you Dr. Zare. We learned so much!
Visit this website to make going to the dentist less scary.
http://www.ada.org/public/games/marty.asp
On Valentine’s Day we celebrated the Day of Love all day long! We read a book Called The Missing Tarts and measured the ingredients for cookie tarts and cooked the tarts here at school. Then we made a card for our parents telling them how much we love them, passed out our Valentine’s Day cards and made a candy heart graph. After P.E. and music, we opened our Valentine’s Day Cards, read them and ate cookies and had juice. Everyone was very mannerly and we had a very good time today. We went home excited and exhausted.
Making Cookie Tarts-Yummy!
Eating our cookie tarts
Passing out our Valentine Cards.
Graphing Candy Hearts
Ready to enjoy our Cards and Treats.
Reading our sweet Cards
Today was so fun! We celebrrated the 100th Day of School. We did so many fun activities and had such a nice AND fun day. We not only celebrated the fact that we have been in school 100 days but that we work hard every single day.
Enjoy the pictures.
With our 100 piece Fruit Loop Necklace.
Making our 100 piece necklace.
Mrs. Trog teaching us about life 100 years ago in Deer Park. It was so interesting!
ALL of first grade listening so well.
100s Day Game-Race to 100.
100 tally mark headbands.
Before the Holiday Break, 1st grade was so lucky to get to make gingerbread houses. It was a blast. We used all the food and materials the parents brought to school and got very creative in building a gingerbread house. We also got to listen to Christmas Carols the 3rd graders sang to us. It was a magical day. Thank you for bringing all the materials to help make our gingerbread houses so neat!
3rd Graders Singing Carols
It was neat in November when we went to the Native American field trip. We got to see so many dfferent things that we had studied. When we studied Native Americans over two weeks we learned materials such as how they traveled, what they ate, how they got food, what children did, where they lived, how they dressed, what they did for fun and what they did once the settlers started taking their land. The children loved reading books and seeing pictures about a time so distant from their own. They found it truly interesting. Then to go on the field trip- Wow! It was a blast! Here are a few pictures!
We had so much fun on fall day, Thursday October 25th. The activities we did together were: frosting a fall cookie and drinking juice; measuring the height and circumference of a small pumpkin; counting the lines of a small pumpkin; carving a pumpkin and seeing what is inside; and making fall-foam puppets. We were doing so many fall things that we were exhausted by the end of the day.
Our pumpkin graph, “What jack-o-lantern face do we want to carve?
Feeling inside the pumpkin.
Looking inside the pumpkin.
Beginning to carve the pumpkin.
Isn’t it neat?
What our frosted cookies looked like.
Cheers to a wonderful fall day at Dabbs Elementary!
