Mrs. Eichberger’s
First Grade Newsletter
Volume 1 Issue 2, 2003

Classroom Wish List

If you’d like to donate any of the following items to our classroom, we would appreciate your generosity and kindness. The items should be clean and in good condition. Items may be dropped off at any time.

• Bean Bag chairs or large pillows for our in-class library.
• Art supplies such as fabric scraps, yarn, buttons, and paints
• Books and child-appropriate magazines (Highlights, Ranger Rick, etc…)
• Costumes or dress-up items for Dramatic Storytime

Math

We have been counting and tallying objects such as books, boys and girls in our class, and who rides the bus, car or walks to and from school.

Science

Our first science lesson was on germs and hand washing. We always wash our hands before we eat or after we go to the bathroom.

Parent Volunteers

If you are interested in helping in our classroom, please call or email me.

geichberger@manistee.org
889 - 9674 ext. 438

Our classroom rules are as follows:

• Always do your best work
• Be helpful
• Be Safe
• Use your manners
• Follow directions
• Use the "working whisper." (We use our working whisper when we are doing centers, or working at our desks. This way our class can be calm and we can all concentrate.)

Arts

Our stories, math lessons and writing lessons have traditional Mother Goose rhyming songs and finger plays. We have been creating some beautiful pictures in our books and along with our writings.

Language Arts

Mrs. Zajac and Mrs. Cook, our Title I teachers, have been testing each child individually on letter sounds and identification.

We have been reading stories like Moonbears Books, Annie, Bea, and Chi Chi Delores, Where the Wild Things Are, Miss Nelson is Missing, and classic fairy tales. Each child has made two books: one about colors and one about their favorite things.