Pics From Week Ending 9-18-20

Hi! 

What a great, first full week we have had! We got lots accomplished. We started our math and spelling books. We did lots of reading and writing work with the Wishy-Washy books. We looked for chunks in words and patterns in rhymes. We have our own book boxes now that have books we can read by ourselves in them. We practiced counting by 1,2,5 and 10. We worked with our number lines to practice counting up and back from various numbers. We played Number Squeeze, Top It, Penny/Dice and Bunny Hop (all math games). We used our chrome books for Prodigy, Lalilo and Rocket Spelling. We started our first mission in Go2Science. Beth and Curtis actually answered some of our questions live on their show. It was so cool to have them talking to us! We learned how the Earth is made up of layers and how the further you dig, the older the layer. We made some of our own layers. Mrs. Richard brought in shell fossils that she found in Maine. They were so cool to look at. Mr. Cyr came and read to us! We ended our week by eating and playing in mud...haha...jk! We used chocolate pudding to paint a mud scene. We then used bubble wrap to print suds. Next week we will use them to make a Wishy-Washy book.

Again, what a great week! We couldn't ask for better kids! 

You should be very proud of them. They are working hard and keeping safe!  

Have an awesome weekend.

Pics From Week Ending 9-11-20

What a GREAT week!

We are taking turns in the garden with Mrs. Richard. 

Some went this week and others will go next week.  

Reading to the class. 

We love Yoga Mat time!

Mrs. Richard brought her special bubble solution to recess on Thursday!

Taking a moment at recess to reflect on a great day!

We had a picnic today.

Some at on their towels while others chose the tent.

We learned how to use the document camera!

Making fairy houses during recess.

A very cool invention!

Happy Weekend!!

First Grade News 9-11-20

 Hi! We have had a great week! The kids are really getting used to our schedule and all the new safety procedures. We did lots of work on how to visualize 6 feet. We taped two yardsticks together to show them. We then practiced it. Please keep discussing this very hard concept to your child(ren). They forget quickly when they are playing outside. They do know when we say airplane or spacing it means they are too close. 

We read the book, David Goes to School, and drew David and wrote our own school rules. We added Lalilo and Rocket Spelling to things we can now do on our chrome books. Prodigy and Epic are still the favorites! It's amazing how good they are all getting at signing into Google and getting to Portaportal to choose their app. 

We started our chapter book read aloud, Pixie Tricks. It's a very exciting eight book series we read each day after our lunch/recess break. We finished book one this week!

We worked with rhyming words and the short a sound. We read Mo Willems book. We wrote another thank you note to someone who made us all reversible masks. 

Today was Playground Day. We had a picnic on our towels. Some chose to eat in the tent. This was perfect because we got to get on the playground as soon as we were done. :)

We played Guess Box. We got hand pointers that let us high five each other safely. They really wanted to take these home (sorry haha). 

You may have noticed a couple of copied books that came home this week. When you see these kinds of books please take a moment to listen to your child read it to you. We will be sending more of them home for you to keep. We will also start sending real books for at home practice. These will need to come back to school to be quarantined and then used again. :)

Thank you again for all your kind words and support. We are really enjoying your kids. They are kind, polite and hard workers with creative and fun personalities!