PICS FROM WEEK ENDING 1-24-20

Our scrolls are getting longer!

A few pics from last week that didn't get on...oops :)!

Working on a space mural. 

Show and Share.

Sharing a rocket launch!

I love their faces as they get ready...

Then BLAST OFF!

A couple of builds.

Twinning!

First Grade is out of this world!

Fun in the snow!

HAPPY WEEKEND!

FIRST GRADE NEWS 1-24-20

Hi! We’ve had a great week! We made space murals that are now hanging with our astronaut shaped books in the hall. We added Jupiter into our Family of the Sun books. We checked out our classroom maps to see if we could find where we lived on the Veazie map. We also checked out the world map to see where all of the continents, countries and states are located. We’re practicing knowing our location starting with our town going as big as our galaxy. We sent out almost all of our Flat Selves. We can’t wait to get responses to put on our map! We will continue with these themes through February break (and as long as the responses keep coming in).

READING AND LANGUAGE ARTS

During Morning Work we have been working on using capitals in correct places, punctuation, grammar, verb tenses, spelling and rhyming. It’s exciting to watch the kids becoming more and more independent in their reading and writing! Keep reading each night.

MATH

We learned how double facts can help us solve other math problems. We will learn lots of different techniques this year in hope each student will take the one that works best for him/herself to keep using. We also worked with time to the minute.

ITEMS OF INTEREST

• ●  Friday, January 31st is BLUE DAY. Wear as much blue as you can!
  
• ●  February Book Orders due - Friday, Jan. 31st.
  
• ●  Thursday, Feb. 13th - Planetarium Field Trip. Bus leaves at 9:10.
  
• ●  Friday, Feb. 14th - Valentine’s Party - Details TBA next week.

HAPPY WEEKEND!

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FIRST GRADE NEWS 1-17-20

Hi! What a busy week! We really dove into both our space and map units. The kids are enjoying learning new facts each day. They are also VERY excited to send out their “flat” selves to a friend or family member. Don’t forget to send in an address if you haven’t yet. It’s always a huge day when we get mail and get to mark it on the map!

READING AND LANGUAGE ARTS

Everyone is working really hard during our entire Literacy Block. We rotate stations every 20-25 minutes between Book Boxes, Spelling, IXL Phonics, Big Books, Word Work and Guided Reading Groups. We’ve also been doing lots of writing. This week students wrote non-fiction about space in their FAMILY OF THE SUN BOOKS, published Astronaut shaped books and learned how to use the Comic Writer on Portaportal! Everyone finished and published at least one comic! You can use our classroom Portaportal by going to ​www.portaportal.com​. The guest password is VCS2. The kids are very good at using it!

MATH

We started Unit Six in our second book. We are working with finding the difference between numbers by counting up. We are also practicing counting up and back by ten from any number. We are learning time to the minute. The book has us learning the hour hand for now. In class we are working on finding the hour first then how many minutes passed the hour.

ITEMS OF INTEREST

• ●  A huge THANK YOU to Julian J. for bringing in treats for our treat box! We really appreciate it!
  
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• ●  No School Monday, Jan. 20 due to Martin Luther King, Jr. Observance
  
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• ●  Mark your calendars...We will be going to the University of Maine Emera
  Planetarium on Thursday, Feb. 13th. We will leave school at 9:10 and return at 10:50.
  
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• HAPPY LONG WEEKEND!