SOME PICS FROM OUR WEEK 11-6

Sharing THE LITTLE RED HEN.

We compared different versions of it.

Making turkey hats for our Thanksgiving Songs that we shared at the School Assembly.

Making turkeys for our bulletin board.

Something I learned this week...whenever you can use googly eyes, it is a good thing :)!

We found a few new things in our dress up box!!

The cutest turkeys I have every seen!!

Right after we performed...Mr. Cyr loved it so much he just had to try on one of our hats :)!

Students that had not missed one day this trimester had their names put into a raffle for a chance to win a t-shirt with the new school logo and motto on it! We had a first grade winner :)!!

What is a school assembly without a little dancing?!!

Have a great mini break!!

NEWSLETTER 11-6

Hi! We started our unit on fairy tales and light this week. We learned about the common characteristics that most fairy tales have and are charting what we find in the books we read. We started practicing for our play, THE RUNAWAY UNICORN. We will perform it for family and friends in December. I will have a date for you before Thanksgiving break.

READING AND LANGUAGE ARTS

We have been reading lots of fairy tales. The kids are coming home with their play scripts. These are home copies that can stay at home. Please have your child practice reading his/her lines. We are working on reading fluently, using voice and memorizing lines.

We have been practicing our reading strategies by reading Thanksgiving poems and songs. We performed our songs for the school at our assembly today. We even wore the turkey hats we made.

We wrote about what we learned from LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD and about having a pet turkey.

MATH

We learned how to use Frames and Arrows to practice our math facts. I’ve taught the kids when they are trying to figure out the rule, ask:  

1. Are the numbers getting bigger or smaller? This will tell if they are adding or subtracting.
2. How much are they getting bigger or smaller by? This will tell you how many counts up or back.

They are doing quite well with this already. These tend to get tricky especially when the rule is to add but the give you a number at the end of the frames so you really need to subtract. They will be using these for the next four years.

ITEMS OF INTEREST

• First graders have been leading the Pledge of Allegiance on the announcements! They are doing so well! It’s awesome to see them take on this responsibility!

• There is no school Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday next week due to teacher inservice days and Veteran’s Day.

HOMEWORK

Please, make sure your child reads each of the five days off. There is also a math packet and play script in their folders. Thank you for your help with this :)!

Have a great mini break!

NEWSLETTER FROM 10-30

Hi! What a very exciting week...dress up days, Halloween and a full moon! Who could ask for anything more ;)?! We actually still got lots done even with all the excitement! We finished up our unit on sound. We will work with light next week. We will also begin a unit on fairy tales.

READING AND LANGUAGE ARTS

We practiced our fluency and voice by practicing and putting on three readers’ theater plays. We performed HALLOWEINER, A TERRIBLE FRIGHT and THE BIG PUMPKIN for our pre-k and kindergarten friends. It was pretty tricky getting used to reading a script but everyone did a great job.

During Big Books we learned how to read punctuation. We looked at commas and question marks. We looked for little words in big words to figure out words we didn’t know. We also talked about adjectives and how to change the y to i and add es or est.

We had fun re-writing Little Miss Muffet. We used our new poems to go with the colorful webs we made. They are hanging in the hall.

We were not able to fit our spelling test in today. We will use the same words next week!

MATH

We practiced skip counting using number lines. We also used number lines for counting up and back. We made up our own number stories. We also talked about ordinal numbers.

ITEMS OF INTEREST

• Thank you to everyone who sent in items to help us make our own musical instruments and for our Halloween activities.

• There were no Progress Notes this week. It was such an exciting week...five dress up days, Halloween, lots of special activities and a full moon! Everyone did the best that they could do :)!!

A FEW MORE PICS FROM OUR WEEK

Using a special coupon to have a show and tell. It was a very cool collage he made!

Phonics Games

Painting Spider Webs...they came out so pretty!

Hat Day

Spanish class with Senora Meagher.

A few of our Little Miss Muffet projects.

A FEW PICS FROM THE HALLOWEEN HULLABALOO

RED RIBBON WEEK - FRIDAY

Today we dressed as our favorite book or movie character.

We celebrated Halloween by teaming up with Pre-K, Kindergarten and Second Grade.  

We mixed up all the students into four groups. 

Each group traveled through four special activities. 

We had Halloween Bingo with Mrs. Logan in one room.

We made ghost lollipops and treat bags with Mrs. Chandler and Mrs. Worster.

We read a story and made popcorn hands with Mrs. Costlow.

We heard the story Poor Joe and got a chance to touch all of his gooey parts with Mrs. Kimball.

After our Halloween Centers, First Grade put on three Readers' Theater Shows.

THE TERRIBLE FRIGHT

THE BIG PUMPKIN

THE HALLOWIENER

We ended the day with lots of yummy treats - thank you parents!!!!

Hope to see everyone tonight at the Halloween Hullabaloo! 

The fun starts at 4:30!