Friday, May 9, 2025

First Grade News and Pics 5/9/25

Hi! We starting learning about oceans this week. We talked about the five main oceans and what is different about oceans vs. rivers/lakes. We learned about coral. Next week we will start researching an ocean animal. We made beautiful ocean murals and even used salt water to paint with!

It was great to see so many of you at the Spring Concert! The kids did a wonderful job!

We worked with the u_e sound as in (oo and long u). It's still a little confusing for some, especially the u_e used in oo. Any help with that at home would be great. We learned about the three sounds of ed and how we add ed to the end of verbs to show past tense. We will continue working with this. Next week our UFLI sound is ce /s/. We will also be working on multisyllabic words and how to break them down so we can spell them. We'll talk about open and closed syllables with this.

I added a few things to our End of Year list so be sure to check it out. We have the Steel Pan Band coming next Thursday. They came last year and were amazing!!

A huge thank you to all our PTO parents for giving our VCS staff such a wonderful Teacher Appreciation Week! 

First Grade

End of Year Dates


  • Wednesday, May 7 - Spring Concert (6:00 pm)

  • Friday, May 9 - Mid-Trimester Reports come home

  • Thursday, May 15 - Steel Drums Performance

  • Tuesday, May 20 - Reading NWEA

  • Wednesday, May 21 - Math NWEA

  • Wednesday, May 21 - Contest Guest Reader from MEA

  • Friday, May 23 - Field trip to The Grand to see One Morning in Maine (Bus leaves at 8:45).

  • Friday, May 23 - Last Flex Friday

  • Monday, May 26 - Memorial Day - No School

  • Tuesday, May 27 - Tie Dye T-shirts (Please bring a plain white t-shirt on or before this date.)

  • Tuesday, May 27 - Bus Evacuation Drill 9:30

  • Tuesday, May 27, Wellness Day - OT Y in the afternoon.

  • Wednesday, May 28 - Field trip to UMaine farm (10:00, Bus leaves at 9:40)

  • Monday, June 2 - Dragon Days begin

  • Thursday, June 5 - UMaine touch tank (1:20)

Thursday, June 12 - Last Student Day - Field Day - 11:30 Dismissal. 



























Happy Mother's Day Weekend!!

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