Welcome Jeanine Snowden & Tanya Kamila welcome you to the Room 101  web page.  Below you'll find a brief outline of some of our procedures and miscellaneous classroom information. Please check back periodically for photos and kid samples of our activities.  Academics Jeanine is the math and science wizard in our class, while Tanya blazes those reading and writing trails.  Of course, themes are interwoven throughout the year.  This year's themes include: China, human body,  oceans.   Science kits used include organisms, weather and balls and ramps. Homework Homework packets are distributed each Monday and due the following Friday.  Pages may include reading and writing activities, Everyday Math (our district curriculum), data gathering, and poems to read with your family.  Spelling will be incorporated as the year progresses.  Homework is intended to reinforce and review the activities we are focusing on in class and should not take more than 15 minutes each night. Monthly reading calendars come home the beginning of each month.  Families record the amount of time read each day on this calendar.  We ask families to find a good time each day (which may not be right before bed if the grown-up keeps nodding off!) to sit down with their child and just read.  Reading skills are the number one predictor of school success.  No better way to reinforce this than the simple act of reading together -- no bells, whistles or fancy programs needed!   We help at the University Food Bank every month.   We sort, scoop and bag many different kinds of food. Field Trip to the International  District     As part of our cultural study of China, our class, along with the other first grade class, took a trip to the International District.  We went to the Wing Luke Museum and then had lunch at the House of Hong. Click here to see the presentation