FUN IN GRADE ONE

Friday, October 30, 2020

First Grade News 10-30-20

Hi! What an exciting week! We had so much fun dressing up each day. Thank you for all your help with that! The parade on Thursday was AWESOME! The kids were so cute and loved being able to show off their costumes. We'd like to thank everyone who donated candy and treats for the goody bags. As you can tell from the things that have come home each night we have a very generous class! We also had our school board chair, Kristen Bagley, donate a bag to each child in the school and our student council made bags up. PTO gave out free dinners to Texas Roadhouse as well. Such a great community! Our next units are: light and sound, fairy tales and Thanksgiving.

WINTER GEAR

It was FREEZING out on the field today. Please, make sure your child is dressed warm. We will be going out every day no matter what. The length of time will change though according to the weather. We were even wishing we had snow pants on today. It is also cold in our rooms. Feel free to send in a heavy sweatshirt or sweater to keep here at school.

READING AND LANGUAGE ARTS

We wrote stories in pumpkin shaped books. (Thank you to Grant's family for the Target gift card. We were able to purchase two different shaped books to publish in for each child.) We shared our stories today! We were sad to put away the Halloween books. We've had fun reading them all.

We are on our last book of Pixie Tricks! It's sad but exciting! We will have a special fairy house building day on Friday to celebrate. Feel free to send in gardening gloves and tools to help with our projects. They will come home again that day.

MATH

We learned a new math activity this week. It's called Frames and Arrows. The kids have to follow the rule to solve many math problems. Sometimes they have to figure out the pattern to find the rule. They're doing great with it. We also played Kahoot. They are getting so good at it!

REMOTE LEARNING

Just a reminder that if our county turns to yellow we will be face to face on Mondays and Tuesdays. The rest of the week would be remote. We're really hoping the numbers start going down again!

DATES TO REMEMBER

Monday, November 9th - Parent Teacher Conferences (Regular school day. They are after school.)

Tuesday, November 10th - Parent Teacher Conferences (Regular school day. They are after school.)

Wednesday, November 11th - No School. Veteran's Day.

Wednesday, November 18th - Early Release Day

Wednesday, November 25th - No School. November break begins.

HAPPY WEEKEND!

Friday, October 23, 2020

Pics Week Ending 10-23-20

Lots of fun this week building an outside classroom!

Of course, we had to throw a few show and tells in there, too!

Happy Weekend!

First Grade News 10-23-20

Hi! What a crazy week...a day of remote and a mini day! We finished up our mission with Go2Science. We helped them solve their hypothesis by keeping track and looking at all of our evidence. We were able to say that yes, deinonychus did live in Wyoming at one time. We got to see one of the teeth from a deinonychus. It was so cool! Our next mission will be visiting some penguins in January. We will begin a sound and light unit in November. Next week we will be doing some spooky science! Also, next week will be our Fall Festival. We will be having dress up days, special activities and even a book character parade. Monday is Pajama Day. Tuesday is Hat Day. Wednesday is Wacky Wednesday. Thursday is Veazie Spirit Day. Friday is Book Character Day. If you have a book to match your costume, please bring it!

READING AND LANGUAGE

We are practicing sight words and doing lots of reading. We learned about bats as we pulled out important information in the text. Of course we now have bats hanging in our classroom! We wrote pumpkin stories in pumpkin shaped books. We are also still writing in our October journals. We'll be sad to say good-bye to them and our Halloween books next week!

MATH

We are working with doubles. We are practicing knowing each fact quickly. We are doing the same with all the ways to make ten. Please practice at home if you get a chance.

REMOTE LEARNING / SNOW DAY PACKETS

I'm hoping you all managed okay during our first remote day. It seemed to go really well from our end. We thought we should probably touch base about it. If we go remote again at a short notice, we will handle that first day just like we did Tuesday. You will get an email. Assignments will be on Google Classroom. Zoom meetings will be 9:00, 11:00 and 1:00. Since it is short notice you most likely will not have your child's chrome book at home. We will do what we can with what we have. Your child can come to Zoom and/or do the assignments. Your child can turn in their work through Google Classroom, email or bring it into school. We will then schedule pick up days for chrome books and work packets if we find we need to be out longer.

Snow days will be handled the same way. Snow day packets have come home today. Please put them somewhere you will be able to find them. Each packet has three days of work in them with directions. Zoom sessions will be offered if we have power and access to a computer.

COOL HAPPENINGS

* We are building an outdoor classroom. We've been working hard and having lots of fun! We hope to get to use it before it gets too cold!

* Book Character Parade - 1:00 Friday, October 30th. We will leave school, walk down School St. to Oak Grove. Then Oak Grove to Olive and turn onto Flagg to cut through the path to school. It will be PreK through Second Grade. Feel free to sit in your car or yard and wave to us as we walk by. We cannot accept anything though.

HAPPY WEEKEND!