Leslie Sampson

First Grade!

I am teaching first grade this year with Sandra Tarantino as my co-teacher and it is very exciting. We just recently had open house and I was thrilled to see new faces and meet parents that attended.

We are currently working on beginning addition and subtraction in math. Students are using several different strategies such as counting on, number lines, drawing pictures, counters and reverse facts. Don't forget to practice skip counting by 5's, 10's and 2's.

My class just began reading using our sight words and guided reading books to increase our readability. We are practicing sight words daily and using picture clues to figure out unknown words.

Writing has begun with simple ideas about a picture prompt. We are using our resources to find and spell words. We have a word wall, word box, picture dictionary and of course teacher support.

We're off to a wonderful start!

Sign Language Club

Many of you may know about the Sign Language Club that Mrs. Vento and the rest of our DHH family started for kids 3rd-5th. We will host the club again however start dates have not been discussed at this time. Keep tuned for more information!

In the mean time see the websites listed below that have child friendly signs to practice:

http://www.labelandlearn.com/signgamecolor.swf

http://www.mybabycantalk.com/content/dictionary/dictionaryofsigns.aspx?letter=A

Making Sentences

We have been working hard on making sure our sentences have a noun and a verb, plus adding some adjectives. This is a chart I use in my room that may help you at home with writing assignments.

referred back to a really good book called "Embracing the Monster: Living with hidden disabilities". Helps me understand and provide support for students better.

Morning Math Mania

Our school has Morning Math Mania. My third grade students come to my classroom for the very first part of Thursday to practice math facts. In third grade we are currently working on multiplication and division. The students are still acquiring multiplication facts and have fluency assessments each week. Although flash cards are a quick and easy way to practice math facts I have uploaded some pages that can be used at home and in the classroom as well.

The more we practice our mulitplication the easier our division becomes!

These are some in class activities we have done.

Download Rubric5 - write a story problem that involves multiplication

Download Organrubric- write about the properties of multiplication and act them out

Here are some ways to practice multiplication

Download Groups- use arrays and groups to write  a multiplication sentence

Download Dancefloor- use colored arrays to make the best multiplication dance floor

Download Multfact- fact fluency

Search the internet for a basic hundreds or multiplication chart to color in facts and patterns

Also many common household games can be used to prompt multiplication questions....

Man-kala is one of our favorites!

 

 

This years schedule!

Ms. Sampson’s Daily Schedule

 

7:15 Unload Buses

7:20-8:05 Homeroom (Caden)

 

8:10-9:10 3^rd grade Math Co-Taught (Caden) w/J

 

9:00-9:15 1^st Grade Reading (MR)

9:15-9:30 Snack

 

9:30-10:00 3^rd Grade Reading

    MRT and MM-Sampson

    EE- Mrs. Dean’s room

 

10:00-10:30 Reading and Centers

    MR-Reading

    MRT and MM- Centers

    MRT- speech W Th F

 

10:30-11:19 Language Arts/ Writing (1^st and 3^rd)

    EE- Speech TH

    MM- speech F

 

11:19-11:49 Lunch

    MR- Tarantino for 1^st grade math

 

11:49-12:15 Recess

   

12:15-1:10 3rd grade Science/Social Studies Co-Taught (Caden’s) w/M

EE- speech W F

 

1:10-1:55 3^rd grade specials/1^st Grade Reading (MR)

 

 

*schedule changes will occur for early release days and events happening within the school.

2:00 Load Busses