Ms. Carter

Last Week of School

Happy Monday!  I cannot believe that this is the last week of school!

Here are a few reminders:

Please check your child's book bag each night and clean it out.  I will send something home each day so that everything is home by Thursday.

Please do not send anything (unless it's a lunch) to school with your child on Friday.  They will not be bringing anything home so they will not need a book bag.

Everyone is closing up shop this week so there will be NO Target, Spanish, Computer Lab, Library, and there will be no Specials on Friday (lucky me!).

On Friday afternoon we will have a quick Ice Cream Sundae Celebration for the end of a great year!

There is so much to do this week to prepare for the end of the year...if you have any questions or concerns please let me know sooner than later!  I'm always happy to help!

This week we will be working on a First Grade Memory Book and tying up loose ends in all subject areas!  :)

Thank You!  Thank You!  Thank You for a wonderful year!  I consider myself truly blessed to have worked with such a great group of kids this year...thank you for your support and encouragement throughout the year!  I could not have made it through without such wonderful parents!!!

Have a great week!!!

Joni Carter

May 12th-16th

Go Blue Sox! 

I hope everyone can come out to the softball game tomorrow to support Relay for Life and the Tritt Staff!  I am on the Blue Sox and I'm hoping for a victory! 

Also, tomorrow (Wednesday) is Field Day from 9 am to 11 am...please check for a reminder in the folders tonight.

We will not have Specials tomorrow or Thursday and we will be eating sack lunches.

On Friday we will eat lunch with our Book Buddies and read our Tiger Publishing to them...then I will send the books home.

Thank you all for attending our Author's Tea!  It was wonderful and it is so nice to get a chance to see everyone.

A BIG Thank You to our Room Moms, Stacey Bass and Angela Tow, for all of their help this year. 

Also a Thank You to Kim Glover for getting all of our Tiger Publishing books completed!

There is no homework this week or next week!  Summer is in the air!

Have a great week!

Joni Carter

May 5th-9th

Happy Cinco de Mayo!!

Our Mexican Fiesta begins tomorrow!  Student will rotate to different 1st grade classrooms and learn about the culture and traditions of Mexico...and maybe eat a quesadilla or two!  :)

Don't forget to send in a SMALL bag of wrapped candy for our pinata! 

This week we will learn about families and cultures in Mexico.  We will continue our study of animals through our Reading Groups and our Literacy Centers.  We are able to extend our lesson on animals due to the hands on experience we got at the Zoo last week! 

Tomorrow morning our class will go watch the performance of "101 Dalmations" by some of Tritt's 2nd and 3rd graders.

All books are due back to the Media Center today...please continue to send them in throughout the week.  I will send home a reminder later this week if you have one out.

Tuesday 13th 8:00-9:00 am:  Author's Tea

Wednesday 14th 9:00-11:00 am:  Field Day

Wednesday after school:  Tritt Staff Softball Game

Come cheer on the Blue Team!!! 

The final homework packet is going home today and is due back on Friday.  No homework for the last 2 weeks of school!  :)

Today we have Guidance, Thursday we will visit the Computer Lab, and Friday we will have Spanish!

Thanks and Have a Great Week!!!

Ms. Carter

April 28-May 2nd

Happy Monday!

Our field trip is this Thursday!!!  Please be sure to have your child here on time so that we can eat snack and pick up our lunches before we load the bus.  I will be sending home a letter with some details tomorrow...be on the lookout!  Also, if your child has a Tritt shirt please have them wear it on Thursday, if not it is not a problem!  Thanks to all that are joining us!  It's going to be a great day at the Zoo! 

This week we are continuing our Unit on Measurement in Math.  We will begin exploring with weight and volume.  Also we will be discussing and exploring needs of animals this week before we go to the Zoo.  We started this last week in the Science Lab and we will continue this topic in our classroom.  Many students are excited about taking more A.R. tests...if your child reads an A.R. book at home you can write down the title and I will let them take the test after they unpack in the morning. 

A homework packet is coming home today and is due on Friday.

Important Dates to Remember:

Author's Tea:  May 13th 8 am to 9 am

Field Day:  May 14th 9 am to 11 am

Tritt Staff Softball Game:  May 14th  after school

Come pay $1 and watch Ms. Carter play softball with the Tritt staff!  All proceeds go to Relay for Life!

Last Day of School:  May 23rd

There are no Center Parents or Parent Readers this week due to schedule changes with testing in the upper grades.

We will learn about families and culture in Mexico next week and 1st grade will rotate to each classroom on the 6th, 7th, and 8th to participate in our Mexican Fiesta!

Have a great week!

Joni Carter

April 21st- 25th

Happy Monday!

I hope everyone enjoyed a nice weekend!  I had a great trip to the beach for another wedding!  Everything went very well on Friday with the subsitute!  I was so happy to get a great report!

Here are several announcements for the week:

The only homework this week is to Read, Read, Read!  I'm sending home a Reading Graph for this week so the students can chart how many minutes they read at home!  Other than that I will be sending home any unfinished work from class but there is no homework packet this week.  Please make sure that your child gets a good night sleep and eats a good breakfast before testing.  We will be testing Wednesday-Friday of this week.  Also, PLEASE try and be on time during testing because the students cannot enter the room if they are late. 

Our field trip to the Zoo is May 1st!  If you have not turned in your permission slip yet please do so as soon as possible.

We will have our Author's Tea on Tuesday, May 13th from 8 to 9 am.  I hope everyone can come, the students have worked very hard on their books and they are so cute!  Congratulations to Stefan, Skye, and Angel for being the featured writers of the week on Tiger Talk News this Friday.  They will be interviewed by Dr. Rutledge and share their Tiger Publication with the school!

We will visit the Library on Thursday of this week.  Please start searching for any misplaced books at home.  I will send home a list of any books not returned.

Today and tomorrow we are doing lots of practice and review for the CRCT.  We are still working on reading comprehension and today we started rounding numbers to the nearest ten.  We are also practicing correct punctuation and reviewing antonyms and synonyms.

I will send home finished and graded work today! Be on the lookout!  :)

I hope everyone has a great week!! 

Please email me if you have any questions or concerns!

Thanks!!

Ms. Carter

April 14th-18th

Welcome Back!  I hope everyone enjoyed a nice break!  I had a great time at the beach...now I'm ready to jump back in! 

Center Parents this week: 

Monday:  Margo Davis (Literacy Centers)

Wednesday:  Jennifer Piendel (Literacy Centers)

Friday:  Amy Hearn (Parent Reader)

This week the students will complete another CRCT homework packet for the week which is due on Friday.  We will begin our testing on April 23rd and should finish on April 25th.  The school will hold make ups on April 28th and 29th. 

I will not send home a homework packet during the week of CRCT but will send a Reading Graph for students to mark how much they read at home during that week!  Keep up the good reading at home!  It's so important!!

Our next field trip is to the Zoo and it is scheduled for Thursday, May 1st.  I will send home permission forms and details very soon.  I can take as many parents as I want but you have to pay your own way and there will not be room on the bus.  I encourage as many parents to come that would like too.  You can carpool from the school and follow the bus. 

Our Author's Tea is scheduled for Tuesday, May 13th from 8:00 am to 9:00 am.

Field Day is scheduled for K and 1st grade on Wednesday, May 14th from 9 am to 11 am.

This week we will read our letters from our pen pals at Vaughan Elementary and respond to them about our Spring Break Vacation. Also, we will focus on Reading Comprehension to help prepare us for the CRCT.  In the Science Lab we will continue to observe our plants and decide what a plant needs to grow.

I look forward to seeing the kids this week and hearing about all of the fun things they did over the break! 

Please email me if you have any questions or concerns.  I'm always happy to help!

Have a great week!

Joni Carter

March 31st- April 4th

Happy Monday!

We just returned from our field trip, we had a great time!  The Fox is beautiful and the show was very entertaining!  We are going to use this opportunity today to discuss Antonyms.  We are going to write the opposite of Alexander and the horrible, terrible, no good, very bad day and write Alexander the wonderful, terrific, great, very good day!!

On Wednesday we will write Alexander a letter with some ideas of how he could have made his day a little better.  We all have bad days when things do not go our way so this is a good example of how to turn the bad into good!  :)

A CRCT homework packet is coming home today.  There are directions attached and it is due on Friday.  Also, I will send home a letter tomorrow for the online CRCT practice, directions will also be attached to this.  As always, if you have any questions please let me know, I am happy to help! 

Hat Day is this Thursday!  It's only $1.00 and all of the proceeds go to Relay for Life!

This week we are measuring and graphing the growth of our plants from the Science Lab.  I am going to introduce double digit addition this week to get us ready for the CRCT. 

We are still working on our Tiger Publishing, they are looking great!  I am still working on a date for our Author's Tea but I will let you know as soon as I put it on the calendar.  This is a chance for parents to come and look at the published books that the students have worked so hard on.  It will a breakfast reception and it will be sometime in May. 

I will not post next week due to Spring Break!  Due to a much needed beach vacation I will not check email either! I hope everyone has a great Spring Break!  Enjoy!!!

Joni Carter

March 24th-28th

Happy Monday! I hope everyone had a nice weekend!

Friday is Pajama Day!  Please look for a letter to come home with details about this fun day! 

This week is Exceptional Childrens Week at Tritt.  This morning we attended an assembly where we learned about Invisible Disabilities.  Tomorrow we will watch a short school wide video on Special Needs.  Also, we will discuss different topics in class this week. 

Our 1st grade field trip to the Fox is next Monday.  Please let me know if you have any questions about the trip.  Thank you for returning all permission slips so quickly.  We will go to the Zoo in April, there will be more information about that trip after our Fox trip.

We will go to the Library tomorrow and check out new books.  We will go to the Science Lab on Thursday and we have Spanish on Friday.

Center Parents:

Wednesday:  Kim Glover (Parent Reader)

Tim Piendel (Math Centers

Friday:  Wendy Trent (Parent Reader)

Almost everyone has completed their Tiger Publishing writing...they are great!  I think you will really enjoy reading them at our Author's Tea in May.  We are moving on in Writing this week and we are working on a response to an informational text.  The students are using different graphic organizers to jot down facts about the seasons and then they will use that to write a strong paragraph.  We have some very talented authors in this class!  We will continue to work on Measurement in Math this week and we will check on the growth of our plants in the Science Lab. 

Thanks again for all of the wonderful books from the Book Fair!  We are enjoying reading them as a class! 

Have a great week...the warm weather is around the corner...I hope!

Joni Carter

March 17th-21st

Happy St. Patrick's Day! 

Today we are going to celebrate St. Patrick's Day with our book buddies.  We will visit them over in the 3rd grade building and enjoy reading and some green snacks!

Report Cards will go home on Thursday.  I will be out on Friday so if you have any concerns please contact me on Monday of next week.

The Book Fair begins tomorrow.  We will preview the books first thing in the morning and the students will bring home their wish lists. 

Tomorrow is the Talent Show in Music.  Students can choose to bring something to share or perform.  It's just our class and I will help the students get any materials to the Music Room and back. 

We are running low on pencils in the classroom so you may need to send a couple of pencils to school with your child. 

Center Parents this week:

Monday:  Angela Tow (Literacy Centers)

Wednesday:  Stacey Bass (Parent Reader)

Channing Felton (Math Centers)

Friday:  Christine Harper (Parent Reader)

This week we are beginning our Unit on Measurement in Math.  We will be measuring with non standard units.  We will continue our Unit on Plants in Science.  We planted a few seeds in the Science Lab last week so we will stop by to observe their progress this week.  The students are working hard on their Tiger Publishing, it's going really well!  I'm excited to see the final result!

We will check out Library Books tomorrow during our Book Fair Preview.  We will visit the Computer Lab on Thursday and we have Spanish on Friday.

Have a great week and email me if you have any questions or concerns!

Thanks!

Joni Carter

March 10th-March 14th

Happy Monday! 

Friday was a huge success!  Thanks again for all of your help, the kids really enjoyed it!

Here are a few announcements for the week:

Picture Day is tomorrow, our time is 8:15 so we won't have a chance to get dirty! 

Students will bring home their Patriotic Projects this week after we visit the Library on Thursday.

The Book Fair begins next week.  Our class will preview the books on Tuesday the 18th.  Each student will bring home a wish list like last time.

Center Parents for this week:

Monday:  Brooke Matthews:  Literacy Centers

Wednesday:  Staci Walton:  Parent Reader and Math Centers

Friday:  Jackie Reynolds:  Parent Reader

This week we will visit the Computer Lab on Tuesday morning, we will go to the Library and the Science Lab on Thursday.  Also, we will have Spanish on Friday morning.

This week we are extending our Fractions unit by creating pizzas out of paper plates with pre made recipe cards.  One example is:  Create a pizza with 1/2 olives, 1/4 ground beef, and 1/4 just cheese.  The students are doing a great job!  We are working hard on our Tiger Publishing writing.  Thanks to all of you who have volunteered to help with that.  Please contact Kim Glover if you have any questions.  In Science we are starting our Unit on Plants.  In the Science Lab we created a model of a plant to label the parts.  This week we will begin potting our very own plant to learn what a plant needs to grow. 

Don't forget to email me baseball and softball schedules.  I look forward to coming to some games this Spring!

Have a great week and enjoy the beautiful weather!

Joni Carter