Welcome Friends

Gearing Elementary

Home of the Gators!

Teacher ~ Karyn Alley

kalley@ecsd.us

Phone: 676-1672

Important Dates to Remember!

May 3 Half Day of School ~ Teacher in-service day We have gym!

May 4 First Grade Popcorn sale Thanks Mrs. Wiegand and Mrs. Blank for popping!

May 1 1 Book Fair during Library Swamp Shop

May 1 5 PTO 7:00 Hungry Howies Night

June 6th 9:00 - 3:15

We go rain or shine so dress for the weather!

Bag Lunch, Drink, Extra water, Spending money

$7.00 per child/adult

All adults are welcome to come spend the day with us at the zoo. Please let us know if you'd like to ride the bus with us or if you'd prefer to carpool to the zoo.

Mrs. Alley's Email

2011-2012 Lunch and Specials Schedule

LUNCH: 11:35-12:10

Monday: Art 1:50-2:40

Tuesday: Music 1:50-2:40

Wednesday: Spanish 1:50-2:40

Computers 12:00 - 12:50

Thursday: Gym 1:50-2:40

Friday: Media 1:50-2:40

Parents are welcome to come and eat with their first grader anytime! We love company ~

~Come and take a peek ~

WELCOME

Come on in and stay awhile

I'm glad you could stop by and visit. This web page is primarily created for our Gearing Gator parents and partners but if you find the information useful, helpful or just plain fun, don't hesitate to share what you find with your family and friends. Should you have any suggestions and/or comments regarding this site please feel free to shoot me an email!

~ Happy Learning ~

Click here for First Grade Wall Words

A Hodgepodge of Fun!!

~ Computer Fun ~

Language Arts Games for Computer Lab

Thanks Mrs. Trudeau!

Contractions: Treasure Trove

See and Spell: Short Vowels

See and Spell: Long Vowels

See and Spell: Blends

See and Spell: Digraphs

Just for fun!

Build yourself Wild

~ Here's what's on the menu of computer fun this week ~

Username: Gearing Password: Gators

Social Studies

Treasure Hunt

Map Coordinates

Addition Games

Sight Words Starfall

Fives Frame Or you can play Tens Frames

Skip Counting by: 2's, 5's, 10's... Fairy Fog (skip counting)

Busy Bees

Language Arts Games for all

Adding Fun Adding Fun

Measurement Games

Starfish Theatre: Non-Standard Measurement

Measure It!: Easy Inches

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Author Study

Jan Brett Kevin henkes

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Listening to Reading

Cafe

Children's Activities Check out this GREAT site

Fairytales

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This is an AWESOME site ~ Create your own story and then share it with the world!

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Reading Comprehension Skills:

This site explains reading comprehension skills and makes applying them to real books and stories fun! Give it a go ~ It's a little tricky but great family learning!

INTO THE BOOK

First, this link will take you to the home page

Click Kids Area

Then enter your key-code to begin

If your child does not already have a key-code then all you need to do is have your child type his/her name in the appropriate box on the web site, hit submit and then remember and write down the special code. By having a key-code you and your child can start a game, save a game and come back to it at any point. This site can be accessed from anywhere so play can continue at Grammas, on vacation etc.

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