PICTURES AND NEWS FROM WEEK OF 11-23

We did lots of measuring this week. We used cubes and paper

clips to measure objects in the room and in our book.

We worked in cooperative groups to measure 

really big things like our table!

First we tried counting the cubes by ones.

We quickly found out that counting by tens was much easier!

We wrote our own fairy tales! We will read them to you

after our play, THE RUNAWAY UNICORN, on

Tuesday, Dec. 8th at 8:30.

We are learning about light in science. We

had fun exploring with mirrors this week.

We did lots of activities in response to

Cinderella. First we listened to the story.

We wrote the three wishes we would love to

have a fairy godmother grant us.  We also

did a word search and challenge math paper

that counted wheels on many coaches.

We made our own magic wands.

We had fun practicing nouns, adjectives and verbs with

our peer helpers by playing MadLibs.

Second Grade came and read us Thanksgiving stories. They also

shared a special treat that they had made for us!

It was a short and exciting week!

Happy Thanksgiving!

THE GINGERBREAD MAN

You may run as fast

as you can,

But First Grade caught you,

 Gingerbread Man!

Making Gingerbread Magnets.

SOME PICS FROM THE WEEK 11-20

Practicing play lines.

Painting castles.

An author sharing her story.

A first grade presenter teaching about castles and knights.

Fun during inside recess.

Stained glass windows for our castle.

11-20 NEWSLETTER

     Hi! Our room is looking more and more like a fairy tale castle each day! We are having lots of fun with this unit. The kids are doing a great job at learning their lines for the play. We have started putting actions in and even tried out the stage today!! Don’t forget to mark your calendars for Tuesday, Dec. 8th at 8:30 a.m. We can’t wait to show you our show!

READING AND LANGUAGE ARTS

     We did lots of fairy tale comprehension activities. We took a short nap after we read THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA ;)! We turned ourselves into our favorite fairy tale character and wrote about it. Ask your child which one s/he picked. We wrote about what we want to be when we grow up and made swans after reading THE UGLY DUCKLING. We caught THE GINGERBREAD MAN and had a delicious snack. We also talked about the fox in the story and how he and the wolf always seem to get a bad wrap. We watched the video, WHAT DOES THE FOX SAY? and wrote what we think the fox really says.

     We started a new morning paper. The kids practice writing a site word four times. They then have to read the four sentences to someone. As these papers come home, please have your child read you the sentences. It helps with fluency and site word recognition.

MATH

     We finished our unit three assessments and started unit four. We will be doing lots of measuring. Right now we are measuring with various objects. However, we will work into feet and inches.

ITEMS OF INTEREST

*   Happy Birthday to Lucas who turned seven today!

*   No school on Thursday and Friday next week due to Thanksgiving.

*  Tuesday, Dec. 1st is scenery and castles day. Dress for Mess!

*   Holiday Movie Night - Friday, Dec. 4th at 6:00 p.m. THE POLAR EXPRESS will be shown in   the gym for the younger kids. ELF will be shown in the cafeteria for the older kids.

 *  Thursday, Dec. 10th is the VCS Holiday Concert at 6:00 p.m.

*   Keep sending in those boxes and paper towel / toilet paper rolls.

HAPPY WEEKEND!!