Ms. Fenstermaker

Welcome!

Welcome to Mrs. Fenstermaker's First Grade BLOG. Check back bimonthly for classroom news updates. For more immediate classroom updates, make sure to read the weekly newsletters that come home with the children.

                

Important Dates

October 21-October 24 - Book Fair in Media Center

October 30- Reflections Reception 8:00 am

October 31- Fall Fun Centers at 1:00- Parent Volunteers Needed

November 4- Student Holiday/ VOTE

November 6- Media Center Equipment Training

November 12- Jump Rope for Heart- Please return all permission slips.

November 17- High Touch High Tech "Sounds Like Fun"- Please return permission slips.

November 24-November 28- Thanksgiving Holidays/ No School

December 4- Media Center Equipment Training

December 4- PTSA Meeting/ First Grade Musical- Please return permission slips.

December 6- PTSA Sponsors Secret Santa

December 17- Holiday Party 9:00-10:00- Parents Welcome!

December 22- January 5- Winter Holidays/ No School

January 19- MLK Day/ No School

January 26-January 30 - Conference Week/ Report Cards Distributed

Mrs. Fenstermaker's Class Schedule 2008-2009

7:15-7:50 Morning Work/ Morning Procedures

7:50 Pledge/ Announcements/Attendance

8:00-8:30 Calendar/Math RAP/Morning Message

8:30-9:30 Math

9;30-9:45 Snack/ Read leveled books for fluency practice

9:45-10:15 Phonics/Spelling

10:15-10:40 Recess/ Water Break

10:40-11:25 Literacy Centers/ Guided Reading

11:30-12:10 Specials (PE, Art, Computer Lab, Music, Spanish)

12:10-12:19 Bathroom Break

12:19-12:49 Lunch

12:55-1:55 Read Aloud

                       Writer's Workshop

                      Social Studies/Science

1:55 Class Meeting/Pack Up

2:10 Dismissal Begins

Weekly Homework

Each week students in Mrs. Fenstermaker's Fantastic First Grade Class should complete the following for homework:

                1. Read to your parents each day (or at least four days during the week)  and list books read on your reading log. Don't forget to return completed reading logs for a prize from the treasure box!

               2. Practice the phonics words that are listed on the Weekly News. These words have spelling patterns. Try to create more words to fit the same patterns.

               3. Complete the math homework packet that is sent home weekly. The activities in the math packet correspond with what we are learning in class.

               4. If you have not learned all 200 of your first grade sight words, remember to practice reading these words each day. Remember sight words are words that are seen with great frequency in children's texts. Students need to be able to read sight words within 3 seconds of looking at them. These are not words that should be "sounded out."

All About Me

My name is Andrea Fenstermaker. I am your child's first grade teacher. I have been teaching at Kennesaw Elementary since 1999 and have 13 years teaching experience in Cobb County.  I attended Virginia Tech for two years then transferred to Oglethorpe University where I earned a B.A. in Early Childhood Education. However, I am a Hokie at heart. Gobble! Gobble! I later earned my Masters degree in Early Childhood Education from Kennesaw State University.  I have been married for 23 years, and I have three children and one very adorable Welsh Terrier. My oldest son is in his first year at The University of Georgia, so now I have also learned how to say "Go Dawgs!"