First Grade Newsletter and Pics 9/27/24

 Good afternoon! We've had a very busy week! We had Picture Day...it went well! We learned about the season of the apple tree and about Johnny Appleseed! We went on a field trip to Conant's Apple Orchard. Thank you chaperones!!  We made our own applesauce back in our classroom. We rewrote a book called Rain Makes Applesauce. We used a book called Six Big Apples for shared reading. We also rewrote a book called A My Name Is Alice. The kids had a choice to bring these three new books home or to keep them in their book boxes for awhile to read here. If you do not see them this weekend, you will see them soon.

We took our Reading NWEA this week. It is a computer standardized test that we take at the beginning and end of each year. The students did a great job answering 42 questions on their chrome books.

We had our first Flex Friday. Ask your child where s/he went and what they did. Our next one will be Friday, October 25.

In Math we are working on addition. We are practicing saying the higher number then counting on instead of counting that higher number out on our fingers and counting on. We are also working on knowing all the different ways to make ten as quickly as we can. We should know these basic facts instantly soon. Any help at home with this would be great.

UPCOMING DATES

* Friday, September 27 - TONIGHT...Outside Movie Night - Come watch Shrek at 6:30.

* Thursday, October 10 - Early Release Day. Students will be dismissed at 11:25.

* Friday, October 11 - No School. Teacher Inservice.

* Monday, October 14 - No School. Holiday.

Conant's Apple Orchard

Taking our NWEAs

Practicing our Addition Facts by Graphing Dice Totals

A beautiful day for kickball

Our Field Trip

Clapping Songs

Show and Share

Making Applesauce

Rewriting the book Rain Makes Applesauce

Buddy Reading

Playing 10 Speed

We are great cooks...our applesauce turned out great!

Happy Weekend!

First Grade Newsletter and Pics 9-20-24

 Hi! We spent a lot of time this week talking about self regulation and what to do with all the different feelings we have. Two different calming areas and various fidgets were introduced. All of this along with our talk about whole body listening will work together to make us the best first graders we can be. :)

We will continue with routines and friends the entire year. However, next week we will start talking about Autumn and Apples! Math homework will continue Monday - Thursday. Great job on helping your child get in turned back in. 

We've been learning sign language! We're learning it together. It's new for me, too. We've learned how to say, "Hi, what's your name?" and "My name is ..." Everyone can at least do the first letter in their name. We've also learned help, please and thank you.

We finished our first unit in math. We had our assessment today and will move on to unit two next week.

Poetry Books are a favorite time in First Grade. We have new poems each month. Many are songs. We especially like acting out some of them! Ask them to teach you, "Hey There, Neighbor."

We have a 100 hour UMaine student. Her name is Sylvia Valentin. She started today and will be coming 1-3 times a week this semester. We look forward to working with her. 

We have a 30 hour Husson student that will be starting next week. Her name is Tania Paniagua-Ortiz. 

UPCOMING DATES

* Tuesday, September 24 - Field Trip to Conant's Apple Orchard. Bus leaves at 9:30. If you would like to feed the goats, it costs 50 cents. The machine takes quarters.

* Wednesday, September 25 - Picture Day! Wear your best smile!

* Thursday, September 26 - Making applesauce to celebrate Johnny Appleseed's birthday.

* Friday, September 27 - Flex Friday - Ask your child where and what s/he will be doing.

* Friday, September 27 - Outside Movie Night - Come watch Shrek from 5:00 - 6:30.

* Thursday, October 10 - Early Release Day. Students will be dismissed at 11:25.

* Friday, October 11 - No School. Teacher Inservice.

* Monday, October 14 - No School. Holiday.

Happy Weekend!

Happy Weekend!