Blessings

As I reflect on my six week maternity leave my mind is overwhelmed with the many blessings that have been bestowed upon my family and I. 

Karly Christine has been an enormous blessing to our little family.  My love for this little girl is indescribable.  It is amazing how ones’ heart continues to grow for each little baby that has been placed in our lives.  We are so incredibly blessed to be called mommy and daddy for a third time.  Each of my girls have their own little personalities and it is amazing to me how different they are all from one another.  I can definitely say that our little family is now complete.  Who knew that this little babe was the missing link?  (I didn’t feel like anything was missing from our family prior to her birth and now I couldn’t imagine our life without her.)

Thank you to everyone for the kind words and baby gifts.  Your thoughtfulness is truly amazing.  Last week was my first week back as Mrs. Hogan and everyone was so welcoming.  It was a great week back getting acclimated to the classroom once again.  Last week was also a short week due to Easter break, therefore there was no homework.  This week however, homework was sent home.  You can also check our homework page if you have lost your schedule for the week.  New homework books were also sent home today.  I hope you all had a blessed Easter break (for those of you who celebrate.)  I had a wonderful time spending time with family and as always I feel like it wasn’t enough time!!!!  I always have so many things planned for these breaks we get, but rarely do I ever have the chance to actually sit down and complete the multitude of tasks I want to complete.  {I’ll try to post some pictures of my Easter chicks soon.  }

We have a short 21 days left of school after today.  Where did the school year go??!!!  These last days we will be busy reviewing all of our reading standards.  In addition, we will be finishing up our math, writing, and science, and social studies units.  We’ll be busy little bees….buzzing right along until the last day of school.  The last week of school we are planning a 3-day countdown.  During this week we are planning a visit to our local public library, a read-in day, and field day.  Field day shirts that were ordered while I was on maternity leave were sent home today.  All change (if needed) was stapled to your order.  Field day shirts will be worn on the last day of school, Wednesday, May 21st. 

Enjoy!

I may be out on maternity leave but I’ve been blessed to see what’s going on in the classroom while I’m absent.  I thought you all would enjoy some pictures.  The following are from St. Patrick’s Day and from our last writer’s celebration from our nonfiction writing unit.  Enjoy!

\The students shared their final pieces with Kindergarten students.  What a great way to model to our youngest students that they too can be authors.  Your child’s published piece should of went home on the night of student-led conferences.   I hope you enjoyed their work as much as we did.

The kids were working with Lucky Charms in Math on St. Patrick’s Day.  Look at all that green!!!

Mrs. Oppermann sent home a March Scholastic Book Flyer today.  The orders are due on Monday, March 31st.  You can order online by using our class code of GWT29.

Thank you….Student Led Conferences

I want to start out this post by saying thank you to those of you that supported McTeacher night.  Once again, my little firsties had the largest attendance percentage.  I wish I was there to see their sweet little faces when they heard they won the McDonald’s lunch again!!!  Thank you so much for supporting our elementary school.  You guys ROCK!

Student led conferences are coming up this week. Thursday, March 20th.   I will not be there as I am still on maternity leave.  However, Mrs. Julie Oppermann will be there on Thursday evening. These conferences are student-led.  This means that you WILL need to bring your child with you to conferences.  They will be taking you around our classroom and explaining some of the activities they participate in daily.  This is a great way for you to get a look into their daily lives as a first grader.  You will also receive your child’s grade card on Thursday night.  If you have questions or concerns about your child’s progress in first grade.  Please contact me for a separate individual conference.

Before I had Miss Karly Christine, I was busy at work updating my Easter literacy packet.  I wanted to add some other activities in the unit.  I especially wanted to add some of the language standards into this packet that I knew I would need at this time of the year.  You can check out this packet below.

Welcome Baby....

Karly Christine Hogan was born on Friday, February 28th.  She weighed 8 pounds 14 oz. and was 21 inches long.  Mrs. Hogan and baby are doing great!  I'll be on maternity leave until Monday, April 14th.  Mrs. Julie Oppermann is the long term substitute teacher in our class for the duration of my leave.  If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to email me or email Mrs. Oppermann at julie.oppermann@californiak12.org . 

Big sister Elly holding Karly.

Karly Christine Hogan

Big sister Lily holding Karly.