Ms. Brown 

 Hello and welcome to my class page!

 My name it Katelynn Brown I am so excited to be your child's teacher this year! Here is a little more about me.

 I graduated from University Of Houston with my Bachelors in Elementary Education.  This is my Third year here at DFT and I have loved being a part of this amazing community.

I  lived in Houston most of my life, go Texans! About 4 years ago I moved here to the Austin area to be closer to family.  This March I will be getting married to my Fiance Hunter we are so excited for this celebration we have been waiting for! We  have the most adorable cat named Smokey who I love to incorporate into my teaching. When I am not teaching I enjoy cricuting, playing video games, collecting Pokemon in every way possible and spending time with my family. I absolutely adore celebrating and decorating for holidays anytime and everywhere. 

I am looking forward to an amazing year here at DFT and having the opportunity to be apart of your child's first grade journey!

In Ms. Browns’ class we will try our best every day, while challenging ourselves to be kind brave leaders.

Practice, Practice, Practice!!!  Read for about 15 minutes every night.

1.  Shared Reading-Take turns reading with someone.

2.  Reading Aloud-  Read a story to someone.

3.  Listen to a story-  Have someone read a story to you.

4.  Choral Reading-  Read the story together with someone.

5.   Echo Read-  A fluent reader reads a short segment or sentence of a story and the student echos it back.

4.  Find a quiet place to read alone.

5.  Encourage reading-age appropriate magazines, different genres, personal interest books, plays, .........etc.     

6.  Talk about what you read!

1st Grade HFW word list document

A  few games/activities you can play with a few words at a time are below:

Memory

Make your own card deck with two of each word.  Shuffle and place the cards face down in rows.  When it's your turn, turn over two cards and try to get a matching pair.  If you don't have a match, turn the cards back over.  The winner is the player with the most pairs.

Go Fishing

Write words on an index card and put a paperclip on the top of the card. Tie a magnet to a string and tie the string around a pencil.  Ask Kaylee to fish for words by touching the magnet to the paperclip on the correct word you call out.

Magic Words

Write words with a white crayon and use a dark marker to color over the word written with the white crayon.  Watch the word appear after you color over it with the dark marker.

Birthday: December 16th

Favorite Color: Blue, Yellow

Favorite Flower: Sunflowers

Favorite Scent: fresh clean, fall scents.

Favorite Candy: Twizzlers or chocolate

Favorite Drink:  Cool Blue Gatorade 

Favorite Food: Strawberries or french Fries

Favorite Restaurant: Buffalo Wild Wings, 

Favorite Animal: orangutan, cats,  or ducks

Favorite Book/Author:  Jory John books

Favorite Places: target 

Favorite Hobbies:  cricuting and  At the moment planning my wedding,

Things I collect: pokemon things, Mickey Ears and candles.

How I like to relax: watching Disney Movies/Netflix with my cat smokey. or playing Disney Dreamlight Vally on my switch.

Thank you for your support in our classroom this year! Below is a list of items that will always help our class throughout the year as well as an amazon Classroom wish list. Thank you for any support!

----These are things we normally run out of  during the school year----

• Packaged Snacks  (cheez its,popcorn,  pretzels, Pirate Booty, granola bars) any snacks similar to this.  (Mornings move fast and understandably sometimes snacks are forgotten, so I love to keep extra snacks in stock in my class for anytime that may happen.)

• Snack Bags

• Hand Sanitizer

Amazon Wish list.