NEWSLETTER 12-15-17

Hi! We’ve had a busy four day week. We decorated special kindness folders. We are writing special notes to each of our classmates. We will open our folders on Thursday. We’ve done lots of talking about how we can give without buying. The class really had fun being secret elves and sneaking out into the school to hang reminder signs of ways to be kind. We’re hoping to bring some positive thoughts to all.

We worked on logic riddles. They are very tricky word problems that we read to decipher clues to figure out answers. You have to have lots of patience and stamina to solve them. Everyone loved becoming detectives to solve them.

We finished our first math book in both grades. We took the last unit test for these books. We will begin book two, practice some of our place value games and do some more logic puzzles next week. There will be no homework until we come back in January. I know how busy this time of year is.

We had fun decorating sugar cookies today for a special snack. We also did an experiment to see if we could make something transparent become non-transparent. We turned wax paper into snow glitter to make snowflakes!

SPIRIT DAYS FOR NEXT WEEK

Monday - School Spirit and Sports Day

Tuesday - Pajama Day

Wednesday - Holiday Color Day

Thursday - Holiday Headwear Day

This is our last newsletter of 2017. I will still put pics on the Blog next week at http://vcslk1.blogspot.com/. I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I look forward to working with you and your children in 2018!

HAPPY WEEKEND!

PICS FROM WEEK ENDING 12-8-17

Monday we participated in the 

Hour of Code. We worked on

it in class and even in Spanish!

Everyone looked and sounded great at our Holiday Concert!

It was so wonderful to have all fourteen families at the concert!

The kids sang beautifully! I was so proud of them!

Happy Weekend!

NEWSLETTER 12-8-17

Hi! It was great to see you all at the concert! The kids did such an awesome job! I was so proud of them all! We had Guess Box to celebrate their success :)!

We used rulers to help us make Christmas trees. The kids had to make a one inch border with pattern, find the middle of the paper to make top of tree and draw straight lines. They added designs in crayon and then painted in water colors. The best part is the inspirational saying they added to their art. Our goal was to create happiness and positive vibes.

We started practicing a readers’ theater, THE NUTCRACKER. We will read it to our primary buddies the day before vacation.

We started using Google Docs this week. The kids loved it and are doing great with it. We even learned how to insert a picture and center a title! They are having fun typing stories. If you have it at home, they’d love to try it there also!

We had fun practicing nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs with our peer helpers. Mad Libs are a great, and funny, way to practice grammar. They also make great holiday gifts ;)!

Happy Weekend!

PICS FROM WEEK ENDING 12-1-17

We went on a scavenger hunt with our 

peer helpers to find homophones.

Grades 1-2 at STEM Club.

Sharing a story.

Phonic Centers

Writing about our Boo-Boos.

Working on IXL.

We made ornaments.

We wrote opinion papers about real and artificial trees.

We also made trees.

  

Our Boo-Boo writing published on homemade band-aids.

We created holiday sweaters and wrote adjectives about them.

Sharing a special family heirloom.

A base ten math game.

Dress Rehearsal for our concert.

VCS Holiday Concert is Wednesday, Dec. 6th at 6:00.

Happy Weekend!