Mrs. Ludtke's K/1 News

What a fun and busy week we had!  I have to say I am so proud of the way the students have taken over ownership of our rules and the things and procedures in our classroom!  We had a chance to introduce our school family this week at the assembly!  Check out the poster we made to share some of our favorite things! Classroom News Conferences: Here is the sign up link for conferences.  I look forward to meeting with you!  https://ptcfast.com/schools/NDLC \ Star of the Week:  This week we will learn about Addison, Josie, Kaylee, and Tyson. Field Trips: Piggly Wiggly: POSTPONED new date coming soon!   Kindergarten Trip on Oct. 11th :  Please remember to get forms back by Oct. 7th! Word Study:  This week we will focus on the letters e, r, p, j.  We will be working on handwriting and sounds. I will be introducing high frequency words this week.  Kindergartners will get new words every two weeks and first graders will ...

I am very proud of how well the students handled all of the safety drills we practiced last week.  They were very understanding when they were explained and brave when they practiced.  Of course, we hope we will only ever have to practice these things, but if a situation of any type (weather, fire, intruder) comes up we will be prepared. Classroom News Star of the Week: This week we will learn about Elise, Tristan, Yenghua, Hayes, and Ariyah. Word Study: This week we will focus on the letters a, g, d, s.  We will be working on handwriting and sounds. Field Trips: Thank you for getting field trip forms back!  I will be reaching out to chaperones for our Piggly Wiggly trip on October 1st tomorrow. Writing: In writing this week we are going to talk about telling our stories step by step and not missing any detail!  We will make our characters have feelings in our pictures and words.  We will also try to get more sounds in our words. What's new this w...

Hello!  This week is safety week.  Today we practiced a fire drill, tomorrow we will practice a lock down/evacuation drill, and on Thursday we will have a weather drill.  To prepare for the lock down drill tomorrow we will be reading the book I'm Not Scared, I'm Prepared book written by Julia Cook.  Classroom News Star of the Week:  Last week we learned about Mia, Ethan, Ava, and Judah.  This week we are learning about Elias, Claire, Kenzie, Jawreh, and Jackson.  We will also celebrate Claire and Jackson's birthday! Word Study:  This week we will focus on the letters i, u, c, o and we will review last weeks.  We will be working on handwriting and sounds. Field Trips: On October 1st we will all be going on a walking field trip to Piggly Wiggly as a part of our School and Community Helpers unit. Kindergartners will be going on a field trip on the afternoon of October 11th to Heckrodt Wetland Reserve and the Kaukauna Fire Department.  ...

Week TWO is here! I will plan to send the blog post by Monday night each week.  I will include classroom community news and grade specific updates.  This week might be a bit a longer but otherwise I will try to make it short and sweet! If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to me. Classroom News Star of the Week: We will be doing Star of the Week starting this week.  The Friday before your child's assigned day, I will send home an information paper to be filled out and a small brown paper bag for your child to place 4 objects in that help to describe them. No need to worry about it until you see the bag come home! Library Books: We had library checkout for the first time last Thursday. They will need to be back by Friday to choose a new book. Quiet Time: Each day after lunch and recess we have 10-15 of quiet time.  During this time students have a choice of a quiet activity.  Last week the choices were play-doh and coloring.  This we...

Hello!  We have had so much fun the first two days of school.  We are learning each others names and getting to know each other.  We have been practicing routines in our classroom.  I can already tell it's going to be a great year :) Here is a 2nd day of school picture...(since we forgot a first day picture!) And a silly one...because that's the only way I could get them to all smile for the first one!  I hope that you are hearing great things at home too. As always if you have any questions, let me know. -Samantha