Our Learning

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<div><p style="font-family: BenchNine, sans-serif;">By Corey Blanton</p></div>
    

    
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            <p style="font-family: &quot;Happy Monkey&quot;, cursive;"><b>October 1st&nbsp;</b> We are starting Unit 1 in our new ELA curriculum today.&nbsp; It's all about communities.&nbsp; Today we read a story about a community garden and how it came together.&nbsp; Then the kids had to tell a key detail from the text. That was hard!&nbsp; This is something we will work on all year.&nbsp; When you are reading at home with your kiddo, ask about important details in the story.&nbsp; This is a huge concept, but an important one in first grade!&nbsp; We are finishing up our Unit 1 in math - all about number partners. We'll take the Unit 1 test on Thursday. Then Friday we will make a fun math craft! Next week we will start focusing on addition and subtraction strategies.&nbsp; For social studies, we are still focusing on character, classroom citizenship, and kindness.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p>
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            <h1>Welcome to Room 9!</h1>
            <p style="font-family: &quot;Happy Monkey&quot;, cursive;">Welcome to Room 9! I am excited to get to know my new first graders. &nbsp;We are going to have a great year!</p>
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            <h4 style="font-family: Handlee, cursive;">The first two weeks....</h4>
            <p>During the first two weeks, we've spent a lot of time learning routines and procedures.&nbsp; We've talked a LOT about being a good listener and what that means.&nbsp; We learned about "whole body" listening - ask you students to tell you about it!&nbsp; It includes listening with your eyes, ears, arms, feet, body, brain and heart.&nbsp; &nbsp;We've started learning about what reading will look and sound like in our classroom, and begun routines for Readers Workshop each day, where kids will be working at different tasks while I pull reading groups and kids to work with. We talked about what Mathematicians do, explored our math manipulatives and discussed the difference between math tools and toys.&nbsp; We've had two great music classes and visited the library today.&nbsp; We have been VERY busy!&nbsp;</p>
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Parents Corner

<div><p>By Corey Blanton</p></div>
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At Home

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            <h3>Homework</h3><div>Occasionally you will see some work come home from class with a small note attached.&nbsp; This is work that did not get finished in class.&nbsp; If it comes home, please have your child complete it and return it by the date on the note. :)</div><div><br></div>
            <p>Continue to have your child practice tying their shoes!! When they can tie a shoe all by themselves, they can show me and they will get a prize!&nbsp; :)</p>
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Mrs. Blanton

<div><p>By Corey Blanton</p></div>
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            <h3></h3><div class="edit"><p class="font_8">My&nbsp;name is Corey Blanton.&nbsp; I have 9 years teaching experience, with some time as a stay at home mom in between some of them! This is my third year at JDES! I absolutely LOVE teaching first grade.&nbsp; It's my favorite!&nbsp;I have my bachelors degree in Elementary Education, with a specialization in Early Childhood Education, from The Ohio State University.&nbsp; Go Buckeyes!!!!!&nbsp; I have a Master's Degree in Reading and Literacy as well. I have been married for 18 years, I have four kids, ages 17, 15 ½, 13 and&nbsp;11. I also have&nbsp;a 2 year old, crazy mutt named Einstein&nbsp;that I adore!! My kids are involved in Marching Band, Color Guard, Boy Scouts, musical theatre, and art, which means I'm involved in those things too! They keep me very busy!&nbsp;</p><p class="font_8">Some fun facts about me:&nbsp; I'm a HUGE Harry Potter fan (I'm a Ravenclaw),&nbsp;I love wearing Converse,&nbsp; I love reading, children's literature, and movies. My family is full of "nerds" (and we are proud of it!)&nbsp;and we obsess over Harry Potter, Marvel, Star Wars, and Pixar movies. My absolute happy place is Universal Studios in Hogsmede Village drinking a butterbeer and watching little witches and wizards believe in magic.&nbsp; JK Rowling is my hero.&nbsp; First Grade is my absolute favorite grade to teach and I LOVE it, even though it's also one of the hardest grades to teach.&nbsp;I think the minions are absolutely adorable and I wish I had 50 of them living with me.&nbsp;I absolutely love my job! Strawberries are my favorite food (fresh ones, not strawberry flavored things...) and I HATE peas.&nbsp; I get migraines...they are no fun.&nbsp; &nbsp;I love going to Target, shopping on Amazon, and sleeping (not something I do often enough...).&nbsp; I LOVE to laugh.&nbsp; One of my very best friends teaches next door to me in room 10, which makes my job even greater! I think Pete the Cat is totally Groovy and the Pigeon and Elephant and Piggie make me laugh.&nbsp; Did I mention I love my job?</p></div><p></p>
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