April 5, 2024

Hi families!! I hope you had a good first week back from Spring Break!! We have had a fun week getting to learn different stories of Hansel and Gretal and practicing counting by 5s and 10s! 

In writing we have started descriptive writing and creating our own monsters using adjectives to describe what our monsters look like! 

We have also started a readers theater over the solar eclipse!! Students are in groups acting as newscasters talking about the solar eclipse! We are working on finishing our news background and hopefully will get to read our scripts today or Monday! I am going to try and record and figure out a way to upload a video that is longer then a couple of minutes to share with you guys - so if you have any ideas on how to do this please let me know!! 

Starting next week (4/9 - 4/17) our schedule will be changing a little bit because of CMAS testing. Please look below to look at our new schedule for the next 2 weeks. 

Spelling words for next week - we are still working with bossy r but with -ir and -ur along with memory words!!

1. bird

2. third

3. turn

4. burn

5. cold

6. know

7. does

8. laugh

9. both

10. again 

Star Student: Aiden

Monday: Music - solar eclipse around 12:40!! 

Tuesday: Music - schedule at school changes

Wednesday: Music

Thursday: P.E. - Happy birthday Paxton! 

Friday: P.E. / Library / Spelling Test 

Look below for CMAS schedule, newscast background, and lunch buddies!! I have had lunch with everyone, so now it will just be randomized lunch buddies once a week! 

Enjoy the beautiful weather this weekend!! 

Ms. Abraham

March 7, 2024

Thank you to everyone who came to set up and help run our 120th Day Mystery! The kids had a blast and were able to complete their missions and find Zero the Hero :) Hopefully you heard about some of what we did! (Finger printing, STEM challenges, finding numbers to 120, and more!) Scroll down for pictures of 120th day and snack and read! 

Thank you as well for meeting with me this week to talk about your sweet kids! This year is flying by and 2nd grade will be here before you know it.

Saturday, April 6th - Wilder's Spring Auction & Fundraiser

Join parents, friends and members of the Littleton community at this adults only event coming up next month! This is a great way to socialize with other parents while also serving a good cause to give back to our great Elementary. 

• EVENT TICKETS  - Interested in attending the event? Event tickets are available here  If you need assistance securing a ticket, please reach out to Principal Reinert.

• EVENT VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES - Want to help but didn't have time to join the committee this year? Do you enjoy event planning and helping others? Sign up to be a critical part of the event and help land a hand with day-of volunteer to assist with event set up, check-in, or tear down or contact Kristen Kuhn at Auction@wilderelempto.org. 

Next week we will be taking our unit 5 math test. Students will need to draw lines on shapes to show 1/2 and 3/4s. Students will also need to be able to identify whether something is 1/2 or 1/4. Then, students will be given shapes to glue into a a shape (EX: the main shape is a trapezoid, students will use either rhombuses, hexagons, triangles, or trapezoids to fill up that main shape. Then, students will have to identify how many of each shape they used to fill up the main shape). 

Spelling words for next week - aw (says short o sound) and memory words: 

1. law

2. saw

3. dawn

4. lawn

5. crawl

6. come

7. coming

8. they

9. our

10. put

Rule:  when AW are together, they make the short o sound. 

BOOK TITLE CONTEST: If your kiddo is wanting to draw a title cover for our 'When I Grow Up' book we are publishing, please have them turn it in by Wednesday, March 13th! You can relate it to jobs, being a dreamer, or of our whole class!! If your child wants to participate please return it by Wednesday, March 13th so we can vote on it by Friday, March 15th. Please NOTE: if you are doing the cover page, it is just a draft. They will have to re-draw and color on the finalized paper :) If your child wins the votes, they will have to have that cover title drawn and colored by Thursday March 21st! It gets sent out Friday March 22nd! 

It is a nice long weekend to have your kiddo work on it if they choose to!! :D 

Upcoming Dates:

• March 7-8: No school

• March 25 - 29: Spring Break

• April 6: Wilder Auction

Star Student: Luke

Monday: Art

Tuesday: Art

Wednesday: Art / Math Test / Book Title Contest Due

Thursday: Music

Friday: Music / Library / Spelling Test 

I hope you enjoy this long weekend!!

Ms. Abraham

February 9, 2024

Hi everyone! I hope you are having a great week! 

A couple of updates in the classroom - I am allowing more choice in the classroom. When it comes to whole-group learning, students can choose to sit on their spot on the carpet or at their tables.

During independent time, students may choose to work alone or with a partner and wherever in the classroom. If choosing to work with a partner they have to be teachers. There is teacher A and teacher B. Teacher A starts off working and teaching whatever the task is at hand to teacher B, while teacher B listens. Then, teacher B will teach while teacher A listens. I am doing this in hopes that this gets students excited about completing their work while learning, but also having that sense of choice. We even have a system where we will ask, "Who would like to teach someone who may need extra help." Then we will ask, "Hey, if you feel like you will need help with this, raise your hand," then this helps us pair some kiddos to really teach other kiddos who may struggle a little bit - often times independent time can be harder for kiddos and sometimes they will just sit there frustrated - with this strategy it allows those kiddos to receive help and also allows kiddos to take leadership while I meet with groups. 

During lunch, paras have come to notice there is a lot of, "Hey I'll be your friend if you buy me this snack," and kiddos are going back and buying snacks for other people. We cannot stop anyone from doing this, but if you want to check your back account and have a chat with your kiddo please do! We are also having chats with students that you should only be buying snacks for yourself, but again, we cannot stop kiddos from buying a snack and choosing what happens to it. 

Spelling next week: memory words, words that end in -ay, and dropping the i or e and adding a suffix.

Changing y to i before adding -er and -est: For most words that end in y, change the y to i and then add the ending. 

1. say

2. may

3. play

4. happier

5. happiest

6. down

7. too

8. work

9. many

10. first

Since it is a short week, we will not be having a test, but please still practice at home!!

Star Student: Paxton

Monday: P.E.

Tuesday: Smart Lab

Wednesday: Smart Lab

Thursday: Smart Lab

Friday: NO SCHOOL

Remember, no school on Friday (2/16) and Monday (2/19)! 

**Be on the lookout, next Friday (2/16) sign up for conferences will be available! 

Scroll down to see pictures of things happening in our classroom like: Our book buddies having a publishing party, our field trip, us investigating shadows, and I started doing lunch bunch with students each week! Have a wonderful weekend,

Ms. Abraham

February 4, 2024

Happy February everyone! I hope you all enjoyed the snow dump we got yesterday. 

I am feel a whole lot better - slept all day Thursday and Friday then Saturday got the results that I did have strep and finally started meds!! I have not had strep since I was a kid and boy how it is not fun. I will be all well and set for coming back tomorrow. 

January hit us hard with sicknesses and they are still going around. Flu, covid, and strep are some of the biggest contenders out there (per doctor telling me). Please keep in mind of other kiddos and us teachers if your child is showing any symptoms and if you can keep them home - please do. 

If I am out and I do not respond, please know I will get to you as soon as I can - if there is a change in the way your child is going home - tell the front office as I probably will not see it and be able to tell the sub (if I could). 

This weekly letter is going to be very short. We will have a math test on Friday as well as a spelling test. 

For the math test: Students will need to be able to identify hidden beads on a number rack. This time it will show up to 20 beads. If it shows 5 beads on the top and 5 beads on the bottom, students need to finish this equation: 10 + _____ = 20. We have been practicing, I have _____, I need ______, to get to 20. You can practice this at home with your kiddo. Here is a great online number rack to practice at home. Click here.  Students will then have 3 minutes to add stacked equations that will sometimes be two digit numbers: 10 + 9 (but in stacked form). Students will also need to be able to tell if an equation is true or false. Is 12 + 8 = 19? False. Is 10 + 10 = 8 +2 - true. Then, students will have 3 minutes to subtract stacked equations from double digits as well. EX: 10 - 5 (but stacked). Lastly, there will be three story problems that I will read to them, but students will need to be able to draw, write an equation, and place their answer on the answer line. This story problems will range from adding, subtracting, and finding an unknown number. 

Spelling this week will be sneaky Y! 

1. by

2. fly

3. cry

4. try

5. belly

6. jelly

7. smelly

8. bunny

9. funny

10. sunny 

Star Student: Reagan

Monday: Music

Tuesday: Music

Wednesday: Music

Thursday: PLANETARIUM FIELD TRIP

Friday: P.E. / Math Test / Library / Spelling Test

Thank you for being patient with me as I get sick - they say your first couple of years of teaching are rough!! Hope everyone has a great week,

Ms. Abraham

This week in science we started investigating shadows and what may make a shadow. Next week we will start experimenting with shadows! 

In math this week we had our penguin friends help us with doubles facts (2+2=4; 6+6=12). We asked the question, if rockhopper penguins lay 2 eggs, how many eggs would X amount of rockhoppers lay? We also started looking more at story problems with a missing addend (if 5 penguins are on the ice and some are in the water and all together I have 10 penguins, how many penguins are in the water?). Please check the blue folder to see one of our exit tickets. A couple of strategies we can use in math is double plus or minus one. It would look something like 8+9= _____. Students would see either 8 as a double and 9 being one more would add one more, "Oh, 8+8 is 16, so one more is 17!" or see 9 as a double and 8 being one less, "Oh! 9+9 is 18, so one less is 17!" Another strategy we used was counting on. If students are struggling with the doubles plus or minus one. We tell them to always start with the bigger number, say it, then count on with their fingers, "9 - 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17." 

In literacy we learned a few more vowel teams - ie says the long i sound like in pie and ue says the long u sound like in blue and did a lot of practice on this. Next week we will start learning about contractions!! Next week's spelling words are all contractions:

1. isn’t

2. didn’t

3. hasn’t

4. hadn’t

5. aren’t

6. wasn’t

7. weren’t

8. haven’t

9. couldn’t

10. wouldn’t

We took our Superkids Unit 8 Mid-Year assessment (the spelling and online test) and on Monday we will be testing comprehension. I will read two short stories to the students, and they will bubble in the correct answer. 

In writing we started work on our own opinion pieces, sharing our thoughts on whether we thought dogs were the best pet ever, or if they were not the best pet ever. We had to come up with an opening, add transition words, and have a closing statement. These are going to be collected for me to collect some data and then they will be sent home. 

A few things to note:

• DMNS and Planetarium Field Trip - We will be spending the day at the museum and seeing a planetarium show on Thursday, February 8th. Thank you to those of you who have signed up to chaperone! As the sign up is full, if you would like to attend you are welcome to meet us at the museum and pay your own way! If you want to attend the Planetarium show, please buy tickets sooner than later as seats are limited. 

• See this link for Winter Enrichment classes!

• Just a reminder blue folders go back and forth every day! Students will take home work they have finished either whole group or independently. There also may be think about it sheets that need a parent signature to come back to school with. Emptying blue folders is important so they do not get super heavy and rip :) At the beginning of the week we always send home the refrigerator list along with a short story from Superkids that help students read a lot of 'rule' spelling words. 

• As some of you may begin to prepare for Valentine's Day, please note that we ask that you only have your child sign their name on their valentines. When you have 25 kids address 25 valentines with 25 valentines boxes, it becomes a very tricky and involved passing out process. If all you need to do is place one valentine in each box, it makes it a little easier on our end :)

• Along those same lines, on Valentine's Day please send your child with a large bag (like a paper grocery bag that can stand on its own, this has worked better than a regular plastic grocery bag) or a large box (if they would like to decorate one at home) so that they can take their valentines home. Keep in mind that valentines come in all shapes and sizes so a small box typically does not hold 25 valentines very well :)

• Please make sure you are remembering your student's star student week. Posters were given at back to school night (when only parents came) and unfortunately we do not have any more posters. If you have lost your poster, you can always make your own. If your student misses their week, I can move them to the end of the year; however, keep in mind that this can get difficult as we run out of time and it is hard to squeeze 2 kiddos in at the same time. 

Looking ahead:

Star Student: Boden

Monday: Music / Ms. Abraham gone in afternoon for 1st grade meeting

Tuesday: P.E.

Wednesday: P.E.

Thursday: P.E.

Friday: Smart Lab / Library / Spelling Test

Upcoming Dates:

• February 8th: Ms. Abraham and Mrs. Flowers DMNS Field Trip

• February 14: Valentine's Day Party - more info coming soon!

• February 16: Non Student Day - No School

• February 19:  Presidents Day - No School

Please don't ever hesistate if you have any questions or concerns - have a wonderful weekend,

Ms. Abraham

January 12, 2024

"We must meet hate with love." -Martin Luther King Jr. 

Welcome back!! I hope you all had a wonderful Winter Break!! 

This week we had quite a bit of fun hitting the ground running and learning again!!

In math, we used measuring tapes to measure how tall we were in inches to compare our heights with that of a Rockhopper and King Penguin!! Ask us if we remember some facts about the penguins! What do they look like? How tall are they? How many eggs do they lay? Which one is taller than the other? We also had to figure out how to convert inches to feet! How? Well, a Rockhopper penguin is 18 inches tall and we knew that a King Penguin was 3 feet tall; however, to find out how much taller the King Penguin was to the Rockhopper Penguin, we had to figure out how many inches makes 3 feet! Ask us if we remember how to do that! We added 12 + 12 + 12 ! 

In literacy, we are starting to get down to business!! We are starting to learn trickier words - those that have vowel teams! This week we learned ai, oa, ee, and ea vowel teams! Next week, we will be jumping into ie and ue, along with adding -ing and -ed to those words, and identifying long and short vowels. When teaching the vowel teams we also run into other words that sound the same as another word, but are spelt differently. It is important to point out the other word that sounds the same way and how it is spelt differently along with what the different meanings are. If you ever want to know what is going on in literacy and want to practice at home click here. We are currently on Unit 8. 

Next week we will be taking our Superkids Mid-Year Assessment. This will asses the skills we taught in Unit 8, along with spelling words that we have hit all year long. Those spelling words are:

1. fish 

2. lunch

3. when

4. that

5. sing

6. her

7. jumped

8. we

9. same

10. rain

11. keep

These spelling words hit: digraphs, memory words, -ing, -ed, silent/mommy e, and vowel teams. Remember, you can use the secret stories to help your kiddo in spelling. 

Looking ahead:

Star Student: Nolan

Monday: NO SCHOOL - Martin Luther King Day 

Tuesday: Art

Wednesday: Art

Thursday: Music

Friday: Music / Library / Superkids Mid-Year Test 

Have a wonderful 3 day weekend!!

Ms. Abraham

Presenting Authors: Addie & Luke!! 

December 16, 2023

Hi everyone!! I finally started to feel a little more human yesterday - thank goodness. Now it is time for the home stretch - 5 more school days!😱

This letter will be pretty short and sweet.

Monday we will be reviewing for our math test - please see last week's email to continue to help your child understand what will be on it as it will be helpful!! This test is a pretty big one where kiddos trip up. We will take the test on Tuesday. 

With me being absent, we will still have to finish up our iReady test this upcoming week. I am hoping everyone will be finished Monday; however, if there are dates that you know your child will not be in class this week- it would be helpful for me if you notify me, so I can make sure their iReady math test is done.

There will not be a spelling test; however, I will share with you the words we will be working on Monday-Wednesday:

1. baking 

2. baked

3. smiling

4. smiled 

5. oh

6. any

7. day 

8. good

9. very 

10. want 

**Tip: students can figure out the base word 'bake' and understand when adding 'ing' you drop the 'e.' 

Spirit Days for next week:

Monday: School-Spirit Color Day

Tuesday: Hat Day

Wednesday: PJ Day (my class will be allowed to wear slippers and bring a stuffy for their class reward and we will have a free day in class at the end of the day) 

Thursday: Mis-Match Day

Friday: Holiday Gear / Ugly Sweater Day 

Thursday & Friday will be fun theme days in 1st grade! Thursday will be Reindeer Day and Friday will be Grinch Day!! Kiddos may wear anything that relates to that theme if they would like! 

Looking ahead:

Star Student: Addie

Monday: Music / iReady Math 

Tuesday: Music / Math Test / iReady Math (hopefully finished by today or before)

Wednesday: P.E. / iReady Math - if needed

Thursday: P.E. / Reindeer Day

Friday: P.E. / Grinch Day 

Thank you for being patient and understanding this past week as I was sick. I hope you all are able to to stay healthy and well!! I look forward to being with the kiddos on Monday - I missed them!! 

I hope y'all have a great rest of your weekend,

Ms. Abraham

Welcome back!! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving break! 20 days until Winter Break!!

In math this week we started working with number lines. We can use number lines to show our work and our friend Tad helps us hop along as we find patterns. We have been not only adding and subtracting, but also finding missing numbers on the number line.

In literacy we learned that long vowels say their name like in we and go. When a vowel is at the end of a word or syllable, it is usually long and says its name (o|pen is pronounced open because the o is at the end of the first syllable). This rule helps us know when to read a long vs. short vowel! (Many of these rules and tips can be found on my Literacy tab, along with memory words and other patterns we are learning! We are currently in Unit 6.)

In writing we continued to work on descriptive writing and got to create and describe a snowman.

Next week we will start our Holidays Around the World unit by traveling to different countries! We have already started talking about different holiday traditions thanks to our grandparent letters that have been coming in! So cool to see that a lot of your grandparents have some of the same traditions - like oranges in stockings!!

A few things to note:

• We will start iReady testing next week. December 5-7 we will be doing Reading and December 11-13 we will work on Math. Please be sure your student has a healthy breakfast in the morning so they are ready to go and can do their best with the assessment when they get to school! Additionally, if possible please try and schedule any appointments in the afternoon as testing will be done in the morning. We use this mid-year data to help us group kids and see their learning progress.

• If your family is in need of some extra help during this holiday season, our community would love to help.  Please click on this link and complete the form.  All information will be kept confidential.  If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Devon Reinert anytime at dreinert@lps.k12.co.us or 303.347.4750.  

We will have a math quiz next Friday, December 8th and our math test will be Friday, December 15th. This test is a pretty difficult test for some students. Students will need to be able to fill in missing numbers and show work on a number line. 

Some will look like this: 4, ____, 24, 34, ____, ______, 74, _____, 94, 104. Students need to be able to figure out the rule and fill in the correct missing number. There will also be some counting backwards. For number lines they will be given an equation such as: 30 + 50 = ___. Students will need to show their work on the number line to get the correct answer. We have been going over how it would not be 50 jumps, but 5 jumps because we are counting by 10s. There will be a fill in the blank number line where students need to figure out the rule that is not counting by tens such as: <----20---------______-------------60---->. Lastly, students will need to show work on a number line with a story problem.

Spelling words next week follows the "mommy e / bossy e / silent e rule." Refer to the mommy e secret story to help your kiddo + memory words: 

1.  game

2. same

3. ride

4. side

5. said

6. only

7. you

8. out

9. of

10. here

I will not be here on Monday, so spelling lists will be going home today instead of Monday. 

***We will be having a Grinch Day Friday, December 22 - I would LOVE to watch the PG version of the Grinch Stole Christmas (2001) there is a form in your child's folder. Please fill out if you are / are not okay with your child watching this Grinch. If we have one that cannot watch it, we will watch the older version of the Grinch :)

Looking ahead:

Star Student: Henry

Monday: P.E. / Ms. Abraham Out

Tuesday: P.E. / Ms. H's birthday!

Wednesday: P.E.

Thursday: Smart Lab 

Friday: Smart Lab / Library / Spelling Test / Math Quiz - Happy early birthday Lennon!

Have a great weekend,

Ms. Abraham

From Devon:

If your family is in need of some extra help during this holiday season, our community would love to help.  Please click on this link and complete the form.  All information will be kept confidential.  If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Devon Reinert anytime at dreinert@lps.k12.co.us or 303.347.4650.  

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,

Devon 

There will be a file attached to my email for Romano's restaurant and Yearbook Cover contest details. 

Happy long weekend for you guys!! 

Sorry in advance - this is a long one! 

I hope everyone had a great week as crazy as it might of been! We had SO much fun at the zoo - thank you to all of the parents who volunteered to chaperone and even those who came along to hang out with us - we appreciate you!! 

Thank you to those who did send in hand sanitizer - we are still pretty short on hand sanitizer - I go through one probably a week! 

This week in literacy we started our informative writing! You can ask your child what an informative writing is: it ________ us!!!! (I have them repeat it quite often, haha! For informative writing, we are getting to learn together as a whole group how to pick a topic, find interesting/unique facts, organizing our opening, facts, and closing then final writing TOGETHER on this unit. This way, when we hit informative writing again in December, students will be able to have a stronger foundation on how to find facts on their laptop (using epic!) and write on their own paper all independently!

In Superkids we talked about digraph wh and how it makes the /hw/ sound. We also talked about how it can be difficult and trick us, because a lot of the times we hear /w/ instead of /hw/. We went over how who, what, where, when, and why are question words and we read together in our Superkids books to help build our fluency! 

Things you can practice: all of the digraphs we have  learned so far: sh, ch, wh, -ck - and next week /th/. You could give your child words that have these digraphs in them and then stretch/map it out to help figure out how many sounds they have. Then, you can have them identify that sound with the digraph and spell the word. After administering an assessment to see where students are right now, I did see a lot of kiddos swap or not know their short and long vowel sounds. Short vowels make the /a/, /e/, /i/, /o/, and /u/ sound while long vowels say their name /a_e/, /ee/, /i_e/, /o_e/, /u_e/. Practicing being able to identify what is a short v. long vowel sound also helps with spelling!

Spelling words for next week focuses on the /th/ digraph at the beginning and end of a word:

1. this

2. that 

3. thin

4. think

5. thank

6. bath

7. path

8. math 

9. cloth

10. moth 

You will get a fridge list on Monday!

In math we started getting familiar with dominoes and how we can look at it horizontally and make a horizontal equation, then, when we turn it vertically we can make a vertical equation. We also learned about fact families! I tell students, a fact family means we can only use those 3 numbers. For instance, if we are working with 10, 8, and 2. 10, 8, and 2 are a family! Something I noticed was that students might have done 8-2 = 6. I asked, "Is 6 apart of this fact family?" No, it isn't. So that they could see that when doing a fact family we are only using those 3 numbers. 

On Tuesday we will have a math checkpoint/quiz. Students will need to be able to look at a domino horizontally and write an addition equation. Then, they will need to be able to look at a domino vertically, know the total of two dominos, and compare the numbers. Is it greater than, less than, or equal to? 

Then, on Tuesday, Oct. 10th, we will be having our math test. What will be on the test? Students will need to be able to look at a domino and figure out the missing dots. For example: there will be a domino like the one below (but the one with dots will be on the left instead of right). There will be a number on top of the domino - let's say 8. Students then must be able to figure out how many dots they need to get to 8 in fill in the equation. ____ + ____ = _____. Which they would write: 3 + 5 = 8. Last year, lots of students would just do 0 + 5 = 5. 

Students will also need to be able to find the missing number in a fact family. For example if it says 

8 + 2 = _____ , ____ + 2 = 10, 10 - 8 =  ______, and 10 - ____ = 2. Students must be able to fill in the blank. Students will need to hear a story problem and circle the correct equation that goes with it, solve a story problem using numbers and pictures, and also be able to add stacked equations. These are all stuff we have and are going to learn so if you would like that extra practice at home for a few minutes - I encourage it! 

In students folders: Please take out all of the papers. We will be putting October's behavior sheet and the log to log how many books you read in October!

Also, if you see a paper that goes home with corrections or a smiley face it is more than likely an exit ticket :) I do exit tickets sometimes at the end of our lessons to see who got what I just taught and who didn't; that way, I can meet with them in a group or touch base again in the next lesson. It is not  a grade! 

Whew I know this is a long letter - bare with me! 

CONFERENCES:  Wow conferences are in TWO weeks, I cannot believe!! Conferences will ONLY be held in the afternoons Monday October 16-Wednesday October 18th and in the morning of Thursday October 19th. 

Please sign up ASAP so you can get the time that works best for you: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C084EAFA62AA5FDC25-44746790-fall#/ 

Please see this letter from LPS that was sent to you to know why we ONLY offer these times: 

Dear LPS Parents and Guardians:

Littleton Public Schools is looking forward to our fall parent-teacher conferences. These conferences provide an important opportunity for us to share and discuss your child’s academic and social-emotional progress. We greatly appreciate you taking the time to meet with school staff and share information about your child. Your insight and perspective are essential as we partner to support your child.

At the elementary level, October 19 is a non-student day to provide time for school staff to meet with parents and guardians. Additionally, conferences are scheduled at other times during the week of October 16-October 19. Conferences are not available on Friday, October 20 as this is a compensation day for the additional hours school staff work to support parent-teacher conferences. We appreciate your understanding that conferences outside of this week may not be possible. Educators have many responsibilities before, during, and after the school day and are not required to conference outside of our scheduled conference times.

At the secondary level, schools have started their parent-teacher conferences in a variety of formats and structures that most fit the needs of their school communities. Some conferences are held in person, while others are virtual conferences to accommodate family schedules.

With that being said, not all secondary schools will be hosting parent-teacher conferences on October 19, since many schools have hosted conferences prior to that date. This date is a non-student day. Your student’s school will communicate their conference schedules to help families plan accordingly. Like the elementary level, conferences are not available on Friday, October 20 as this is a compensation day for the additional hours school staff work to support parent-teacher conferences.

We look forward to seeing you during our fall conferences.

Sincerely,

Linda Jones
Director of Elementary Education 

Clay Abla
Director of Secondary Education

STAR STUDENT NEXT WEEK: ELLIS BEATTIE

A look into next week:

Monday: Music / Celebrate Wyatt's birthday! (Happy late birthday!) 

Tuesday: P.E. / Math Checkpoint/Quiz

Wednesday: P.E. 

Thursday: P.E. 

Friday: Smart Lab / Spelling Test / Library / Fun Run 1:05-1:50 

Looking ahead: 

• Tuesday, Oct. 3 - Math Checkpoint / Quiz

• Wednesday, Oct. 4 - Bike to School 

• Friday, Oct. 6 – Wilder Fun Run 1:05 – 1:50

• Tuesday, Oct. 10th - Math Test

• Monday, Oct. 16 - Thursday Oct. 19th - Conferences 

• Thursday, Nov. 2 - Lunch Bunch with Mrs. Reinert 

• Thursday, Nov. 9 - Veteran's Day - 1st grade - evening show - 6:00 PM

• Friday, Nov. 10 - Veteran's Day Assembly - 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

Please look below for photos from the zoo, information about bike to school and from our music teacher, Mrs. Gonzalez, about Veterans Day!

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, 

Ms. Abraham

Info on  bike to school: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Pje_YyO7PYge1l5igFy5Q4QOFrTA_Ybh4zhlCHY_Zi0/edit

A note from Mrs. Gonzalez on Veterans day: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16fppY21cOKigs_inTJtDUe_RqbhYXck4CV5wvCvdcn4/edit

It's the WEEKEND - and a long one too - YAY!!!

We had such a great week learning to quick count by fives using our number racks and reviewing memory words, short vowel sounds , and how to make a boring sentence fun and exciting!! (Ask your child how they turned "I see a penguin" into an awesome sentence that painted a picture for the reader) 

Next week will be our last week of review with our Super Kids curriculum. I will send home their SK review workbook next Friday. Look through it with your child and if they were absent and have any unfinished pages, you can do them at home! 

Today was our first day going to the library. Help your child remember to return their checked out books so they can check out more on Friday! 

A couple of things to go over: 

• HEADPHONES: We will be starting our iReady testing next week. Students NEED to have their headphones by Tuesday. If your child does not have headphones - I believe 5 and below has some great ones that aren't super expensive. 

• DUTY next week: The 1st grade team has duty after school next week, so you will see me leave my classroom and go to my duty. If your child waits by the classroom door, please remind them to stay there as I will not be waiting with them next week. 

• SICKNESS: We have some kind of bug going around first grade at the moment. Students are getting fevers, throwing up, having diarrhea. I try my best everyday to help the spread by washing hands before snack and lunch, hand sanitizing after both recesses, and wiping down tables & seats everyday. If your child is showing symptoms of being sick, please keep them home so we can make sure to not spread it around!!

• Lockdown and Fire Drill: Thursday we will be having a lockdown and fire drill. We have conversations in class about how important these drills are and how we should behave/act during both of these drills. If you could please discuss the importance of these drills as well with your child. Thank you!!

In the blue folder today: 

• Fun Run T-shirt order form

• September "How Many Books I Read" sheet. 

• September calendar & behavior chart (please take the August one out). 

Looking Ahead: We will have our first field trip to the Denver Zoo on Monday, September 25. I will be sending out a Sign Up Genius for volunteers in the next couple of weeks. 

Thank you to those who came to Back to School Night. You guys are amazing and I appreciate all of you. Remember WE are a TEAM! The Back to School Night slideshow is on my website! If you weren’t able to come, your child should have brought home their Star of the Week Poster and other paperwork. 

Here's what’s coming up next week:

Monday  - No School

Tuesday – SMART Lab / iReady Reading /

Wednesday – Art /  PLC late start / iReady Reading

Thursday- Art - Lockdown and Fire Drill

Friday – Art / Library Checkout / Wilder Fall Festival 5:00 – 7:00 

**Scroll down for some photos in our classroom this week and preview of Fun Run T-shirt** 

I hope everyone has a nice, enjoyable, LONG weekend,

Ms. Abraham :) 

A Message from our new Media Center Coordinator Mrs. Maxwell

Hello Wilder Families!  Book checkouts will begin the week of August 28th.  We are so excited to do everything we can to support your young reader!  

To help with these efforts, we have updated our circulation policy.  Every student at Wilder is starting this year with no overdue books--a clean slate!  However, our library is still missing a lot of books.  So if you could take the time to look around your house and return any CLC books, we would appreciate that greatly!

Going forward, we are limiting the total number of books checked out at one time to 4 per student.  If a student has more than 4 books checked out, they will need to return one before they check out another.

Having fewer books out at a time will help us provide more materials for everyone.  We never want to do anything that would discourage a child from reading or having access to books.  So if you have a late library book that you can't find, just let us know and we'll remove it from your child's account.  

Thank you so much for everything you do to support the Creative Learning Center at Wilder.  We have amazing resources and awesome readers and that is all because of you!  We are so excited to begin circulation and get books in kids' hands!

August 18, 2023

Yay! We did it!! The first week of first grade and wow what a great one it was. We all had such a great time getting to know each other, learning expectations, how to be a bucket filler instead of a bucket dipper, and writing a lot so we can get to know each other!! 

I want to start off by saying THANK YOU for all of the donations off our classroom wishlist. This helps set us up for the school year :) Some donations were sent without a note saying who from, so if I did not email or send a thank you card home please know we are so grateful for your donation!!

IMPORTANT: Please DO NOT send snacks containing peanut butter, almonds, Brazil nuts, cashews, hazelnuts, pecans, pistachios and walnuts. We have students with SEVERE peanut and tree nut allergies. I have sent a letter home about this. Thank you for understanding!

***GOING HOME TODAY****

• Take-home folders. Please make sure these folders come back every single day. There is a beahvior chart in there if you would like to reflect with your child on how they felt they did each day please do. We will start doing this at school once we get in the swing of things!

• Life skills "homework" sheet: Every day, during morning meeting, we talk briefly over the life skill of the day. I will send one of these home every Friday. It is NOT mandatory. It is just something to talk with your child about if you would like! 

• Fall carnival invitation 

Just a reminder that students may bring a snack to eat during morning recess. The kids are pretty hungry by this time and a snack helps them make it until lunch at 11:30. Also, having a water bottle in the classroom is helpful on these hot days.

If your child needs breakfast in the morning it is ONLY served between 7:35-7:50. After 7:50 students must come to their class.

***Star Student: I noticed I made an error on the dates, so your child might have a new date! You will know more about this on back to school night! 

Next week we'll start the review lessons in Super Kids to review letter sounds, capital and lower case letter formation. We'll also review types of sentences and the punctuation that goes with each one. To work on comprehension, there are some fun stories that we'll read as well! 

• Something you could work on at home is having your child write their letters A-Z. I am noticing not everyone knows how to do this, or is writing their letters incorrectly. Practicing at home will help them!

In math we will get students familiar with routines and manipulatives. We'll focus on counting forward and backward by 1's, 2's and 5's. 

• Something you could work on at home is having your child write AND count to 120. I am noticing students are struggling to write and count past 20, which is okay right now! Students will need to learn how to count to 120 by the end of the year so practicing is always great! Please make sure your child is making sure their numbers are going the right way. 

Here's what happening next week:

Specials: 

Monday: Art

Tuesday: All classes will go to Gym for a PBIS lesson

Wednesday: Music

Thursday: Music

Friday: Music

We'll start library checkout soon. I'll keep you updated on that. 

Thank you all again for being so welcoming towards me!! I am so excited for this school year. 

I hope y'all have a great weekend,

Ms. Abraham

Check below for some photos from this week! I took videos too, but I am still learning on how to get videos on here! If you are not okay with me posting a picture/video with your child in it - please let me know!