FUN IN GRADE ONE

Thursday, November 8, 2018

NEWSLETTER 11-9-18

FIRST GRADE NEWS

NOVEMBER 9

MRS. KIMBALL

Dear Parents,

Hi! It was nice to meet with so many of you this week. We learned about sound and light in science. We had fun making up ways to communicate with light. We sent out many of our Flat Selves in Social Studies. We also learned about the different parts of a map like the compass rose and map key. We will continue with these themes through November.

We had a Veteran's Day Celebration on Thursday. We sang Patriotic Songs and got to hear Mr. McGovern tell about his work with the Navy on submarines. It was so cool and interesting!

We finished Unit Three in Math. Unit Four will work with comparing lengths, measuring with samelike objects, adding doubles and adding three numbers. It is important that first graders can answer double addition equations quickly with out having to count out the answer. Any help wit memorizing the double facts from zero to fifteen would be awesome! Just saying them in the car on the way to an errand is practice enough :)!

We will not have Progress Notes this

week since we had conferences.

Upcoming Dates

* Don't forget we still need arts and craft items to put in our First Grade Box for the School Online Auction.

* Check out the VCS Craft Fair Saturday in the school gym!

* No school Monday, Nov. 12th.

* No school Wednesday, Nov. 21, Thursday, Nov. 22 or Friday, Nov. 23.

* Holiday Concert - Thursday, December 6th at 6:00pm.

* Thursday, Dec. 20th - last student day of 2018.

HAPPY LONG WEEKEND!

Thursday, November 1, 2018

A FEW MORE PICS FROM WEEK ENDING 11-2

I already shared all of Wednesday's pictures...I couldn't wait!

Here are the pics from the rest of the week.

Mystery Doug taught us about our skeleton.

We then made "x-rays" of our hands.

A special share that went perfectly with our hand x-rays!

We had visitors on Tuesday!

A flock of turkeys strutted right across our playground.

We loved watching them out the window.

They left going single file right down the path before recess.

We are going to write stories about them next week!

We found spiders and egg sacs in the Guess Box!

After school STEM club.

HAPPY WEEKEND!

NEWSLETTER 11-2-18

FIRST GRADE NEWS

NOVEMBER 2

MRS. KIMBALL

Dear Parents,

Hi! I can't even believe it's already November! We have had an awesome week. Thank you to everyone who came to our play on Wednesday. I couldn't be more proud of the first grade. Their hard work certainly paid off. The kids were so excited to be able to share their stories and robotics with you after the play as well.

We started learning about sound and light in Science this week. We also started learning about maps in Social Studies. We will continue with these topics all month.

READING AND LANGUAGE ARTS

We worked on watermelon and seed stories in Writing. The kids picked one type and had to write a story about first grade. Watermelon stories have a much broader theme. Seed stories are detailed. Both, however, stick to one topic.

We finished reading CHARLOTTE'S WEB. Charlotte taught us a lot about how to be a good friend. We will begin the DRAGON MASTERS' series next week.

MATH

We worked with realizing that it doesn't matter where the = sign is located as long as both sides of it are the same. This will help us when figuring out math problems. We learned how to do Frames and Arrows. Frames hold the number while the arrows has us use the rule to change the number.

ITEMS OF INTEREST

* We are in great need of arts and craft supplies for our Grade One Auction Basket.

* Parent / Teacher conferences are Wednesday and Thursday.

* Don't forget to send in an address so we can send out your child's FLAT STANLEY project.

* November Book Orders are due Friday, November 9th.

HAPPY WEEKEND!