First Grade News

 Hi! We have soared through the inner planets and will head through the asteroid belt next week! We are writing facts down in our Family of the Sun books. Ask your child to tell you what they know about the first four planets. 

We are working with counting up to find the difference between two numbers in math. We start at the smallest number and count up to reach the larger number. This has been tricky. We will continue it next week.

We started reading Robert Munsch books! They are hilarious! We are having fun learning about him as well!

Mr. Baker started student teaching with us this week. He will be here for six weeks. We welcome him.

I sent home the UFLI for next week early because it looks like a Snow Day on Monday...hopefully not!

I cannot believe I didn't get any pics this week! That just tells you how busy we were!

UPCOMING DATES

* Thursday, Feb. 12th - We are celebrating the 101st day first grade. We'll be doing lots of Dalmatian activities so feel free to dress as a Dalmatian or in spots! I had the wrong date last week...oops!

* Friday, February, 13th - We will celebrate Valentine's Day with a Make Your Own Valentine's Day Party.

* February Vacation begins Friday, Feb. 13th. School will resume Monday, Feb. 23rd.

* Wednesday, Feb. 25th - Planetarium Field Trip - bus leaves at 9:30. More info to come. Parents are welcome!

Happy Weekend! Stay Warm!

First Grade Newsletter and Pics 1/17/26

 Hi! Our first full week of 2026 went great. Thanks to our school Robotics team we snuck in a week focused on Archaeology. Students were able to try out writing in hieroglyphics, put artifacts together, participate in an actual dig and recreate ancient pottery. We also started our space unit. We are starting with our galaxy and then moving through the planets, sun and moon.

Our sounds of next week for UFLI are wh and ph. In math, we continue to work on place value and finding the missing number in addition and subtraction equations. 

UPCOMING DATES TO REMEMBER

* Tuesday, February 3rd - We are celebrating the 101st day first grade. We'll be doing lots of Dalmatian activities so feel free to dress as a Dalmatian or in spots! 

* Friday, February, 13th - We will celebrate Valentine's Day with a Make Your Own Valentine's Day Party.

* February Vacation begins Friday, Feb. 13th. School will resume Monday, Feb. 23rd.

Happy Weekend!

Happy Weekend!

First Grade Newsletter and Pics week ending 1/9/26

 Hi! Happy 2026! We are off to a great start! We spent this week getting used to being back and school with lots of snow activities. We learned about how snow is made and how snowflakes all have a hexagonal shape but are not the same. We learned about why snow is why and how snowflakes change shapes. We made tie-dyed snowflakes. We made snow babies and wrote about them. We made snowmen with our Peer Helpers. We also made snowmen clocks with our Second Grade friends.

We worked with greater than / less than and place value in Math. We use dimes and pennies to help us talk about tens and ones. We played addition Top It. (It's like the old War card game but take two cards and add them together.)

We also talked about the New Year and how we are getting closer to Second Grade each day. We made rockets that tell about things we want to accomplish or continue doing in the New Year. We're aiming for the moon but know we will still hit the stars if we miss! :)

We are loving the Space Toys!

Our class picture went to space!!! 

This is a picture taken from a satellite in space with Earth in the background!!

You can send a family picture, just go to space.crunchlabs.com/selfie.

Happy Weekend!