10-23 NEWS

     Hi! It has been a very busy week! We started a science unit on Sound and Light. We are learning how vibrations make sound. We even did some experiments so we could observe vibrations in action. We will continue this unit next week.

READING AND LANGUAGE ARTS

     We worked on our reading fluency by creating a Halloween Joke Book. We are even getting to read our jokes on the morning announcements…so exciting! We also made a class book called WHO STOLE THE CANDY FROM THE CANDY BAG. 

We read some non-fiction books on spiders. We used our information to write Haiku, poems created by counting syllables in a 5,7,5 pattern. We added the poems to our marble painted cobwebs and handprint spiders.

MATH

     We finished our second assessment and started our third unit. Don’t forget to save the first parent letter of each unit because it has all of the answers to the homework incase you need them. We found three numbers on a domino to create number sentences. This taught the kids about finding two parts to make a total. We also worked with finding the missing part.

ITEMS OF INTEREST

* Happy Birthday to Maria who turns seven on Sunday.  Thanks for the yummy muffins, brownies        and  candy, Maria!

* Thank you, Aurora for bringing in special Halloween bags filled with goodies for each student  

    today.  What a nice surprise!

* Next week is Red Ribbon Week. We will be celebrating as a school all week. Don’t forget to

   check how to dress each day :)!

~  Red Ribbon Spirit Week, 10/26-10/30

 Monday - “Follow Your Dreams, Don’t Use Drugs” (Pajama Day)

 Tuesday - “Hats Off to Being Drug Free” (Hat Day)

Wednesday - “Team Up Against Drugs” (Team jersey/team colors)

Thursday - “Wild About Being Drug Free” (Crazy Hair Day)

Friday - “My Character Counts - I’m Drug Free” (Dress as a book or movie character.)

* Friday, October 30 - VCS Student Council will be hosting a Halloween Hullabaloo from 

   4:30 - 6:30. There will be games, prizes and even a “haunted” house. The Darling’s Ice

   Cream Truck will be there as well! Come on out and wear your costume :)!

Have a great weekend!

FAIRY HOUSES

Today was so much fun! The kids did an amazing job building fairy houses with their peer helpers. It was exciting to watch them create! They were so cute talking as they worked. We had fairy hotels, fairy gardens, life size wizard houses and even acorn dinner plates with fairy salads! I love their imagination and can't wait to hear the stories they create about today's adventure!

RED RIBBON WEEK

Red Ribbon Week is quickly approaching. I wanted to let you know about some of the fun things that are going to happen during this week so you can start planning your child's outfits :)!

~  Red Ribbon Spirit Week, 10/26-10/30

   Co-sponsored by Student Council

     Monday - “Follow Your Dreams, Don’t Use Drugs” (Pajama Day)

     Tuesday - “Hats Off to Being Drug Free” (Hat Day)

     Wednesday - “Team Up Against Drugs” (Team jersey/team colors)

    Thursday - “Wild About Being Drug Free” (Crazy Hair Day)

    Friday - “My Character Counts - I’m Drug Free”

(Dress as your favorite book or movie character)

10-15 NEWS

It's been a short but busy week! We rewrote two books and turned them into wall stories. We turned Have You Seen My Cat into Have You Seen My Pumpkin. We finger painted with red and yellow to make orange jack-o-lanterns. We cut up sentences to add words to our story.

We then turned the book, The Monsters' Party, into a wall story. We created monsters and added speech bubbles.

For the past week we have been working together to write a new version of Pixie Tricks. We started the new story by "sharing the pen" and writing on chart paper. We then split into pairs and wrote a section on the story ourselves. We brought all of these section together and wrote a conclusion together. We did our editing with the help of our projector before we published. Each student is currently illustrating their own twenty page book called Pixies at Open House. We can't wait to share our awesome book!

This group is really coming together and doing an amazing job.  As we were finishing up our monster wall story, I let the kids have some free choice. I couldn't have been more proud of them when I checked in on what they chose to spend time doing. One large group was working together to write a play called Animal Tricks. They had divided up tasks and were collaborating with each other.

I had another group encouraging each other as they shared the iPad.

I had a group of engineers creating with Legos.

And last, but certainly not least, one of our first grade friends invented a new math game and was taking time to teach it to his classmates. He had even written out the directions.

It's so exciting to see that even in "play" they continue to educate themselves and each other. They are such a great group of kids. I am one proud teacher :)!

Happy Weekend!

SAVE YOUR BOXTOPS!

Help our school earn money by cutting out Boxtops and sending them in. Tell grandparents, aunts and uncles to save them as well. The class that gets the most Boxtops earns a popcorn party with Mr. Cyr! We want to party with Mr. Cyr :)!!

10-8 NEWSLETTER

It was great getting a chance to talk to so many of you during conferences! No wonder your kids are so wonderful...they have terrific parents! We finished up our Super Hero / Friends unit. We will begin our first official science unit next week. It will focus on light and sound. A HUGE thank you to everyone who purchased books for our classroom from the Book Fair! They will get lots of use :)! Have a great long weekend!

WE ARE OFFICIAL FIRST GRADE SUPER HEROES!

Our Super Hero Unit was a huge success! We had lots of fun learning how we can be super heroes in the classroom! We celebrated everything we learned today. Our costumes turned out great...check them out!