FUN IN GRADE ONE

Friday, January 22, 2021

PICS WEEK ENDING 1-22-21

Researching planets, decorating rockets, Space toys, Lego Robotics

and checking out the Kids NASA website...

First Grade is out of this world!

Happy Weekend!

Hi! We accomplished a lot in a short week. We added a few more planets to our Family of the Sun books. We continued our search for penguins on the Galapagos Islands. We were amazed at all the sea lions there! We saw 165 in just one day. Some were even sleeping on park benches and in backyards. We decided we'd love to go outside and see a sea lion in our backyard sunning itself!

READING AND LANGUAGE ARTS

We finished reading all of the Robert Munsch books. He is amazing! Ask your child which book was his/her favorite! We visited his website. It is on our portaportal. We love our extra read alouds during snack and lunch. We get read at least ten books a day!

Great job helping with the reading homework. We appreciate you sending the books back the next day. The kids are very excited about getting to bring them home to share them with you!

MATH

We finished our math book!!! The kids were so excited and proud...as they should be! They've worked very hard. We will begin book two next week.

ITEMS OF INTEREST

* We found Orbit gum in the Guess Box. Ask your child why Orbit gum would be a good thing for us to find in there right now.

* Awesome App: Skyview. Go outside and check out the sky!

* Wednesday, Feb. 3rd is our next early release day.

* Friday, Feb. 12th is our last day before Feb. break. It will also be our Valentine's Party. I will give you the list of names now through email and let you know what we need for supplies next week. Valentines should be turned in on or before Wednesday, February 10th. This way we can make sure they are safe to open (thinking about contact tracing).

REMINDER

We have done an amazing job at keeping us here at school. We would MUCH rather be here five days a week than go remote. Please make sure to keep your child home if s/he is not feeling well and/or there has been some kind of exposure. We know the whole Covid thing is getting old. However, there is light at the end of the tunnel. Let's work together to keep us all healthy and in school through to summer. Thank you for all you have done so far. The communication and diligence has been wonderful with this group!

Happy Weekend!

Saturday, January 16, 2021

First Grade Pics Week Ending 1-15-21

Some highlights from this week:

Painting for a space project, outside play, drumming for a movement break!

Happy Weekend!

First Grade News

Hi! We are full swing into our space unit. We are writing facts in our Family of the Sun books as we "travel" to each planet to learn about it. After we make it through the planets we will learn about stars, asteroids, meteors and even the ever so popular black holes! Two days a week we are still doing Go2Science. We are currently in the Galapagos Islands looking for penguins! We will keep these units through February break.

READING AND WRITING

The kids are doing a great job reading. They are loving bringing books home to share with you two or three times a week. Please make sure to listen to them read their book the night it comes home and then send it back to school the next day.

We've read almost every Robert Munsch book! It will be sad when we finish. The kids are LOVING his stories. Ask your child which book has been his/her favorite so far. We are also on book four of Dragon Masters. It's a great chapter book series we read after lunch recess each day.

We are writing in our journals each day and writing about space. We have continued to work with syllables, ed endings, sight words, digraphs and blends. If you see your kids writing at home, encourage them to leave spaces in between words, capital letters to begin sentences and punctuation. If they ask you to spell something for them, have them try it once first and then show them how close they got.

MATH

We are working with place value. We learned about expanded form which is when you take a number a part and make it into a number sentence. For example: 46 = 4 tens and 6 ones = 40 + 6. We even did some in the hundreds. We also worked with measurement. We drew lines with rulers and then made number sentences about them.

ITEMS OF INTEREST

* There is a really cool space app that you can get for free on your phone. It's called Skyview. It will tell you what is in the sky above you wherever you are. The kids would love to check it out!

* Progress Notes came home Friday afternoon. We will be doing these every two - three weeks just to keep you updated.

* Monday, January 18th - No School.

* Wednesday, Feb. 3rd is our next early release day.

* Friday, Feb. 12th is our Valentine's Day Celebration. More info. will be coming out on that soon.

Happy Weekend!