First Grade News and Pics 11-15-24

 Hi! We've had a busy short week. We started writing in our thankful journals. It's really nice seeing what the kids are writing about! They are so sweet. We worked on the ff, ll, ss, zz endings in words. We read lots of turkey stories and are well into our Dragon Masters series. We learned a new game on our chrome books. It's through 99math.com. The kids do addition facts for two minutes and then get a score for the ones they got correct. They replay two more times to try to beat their scores. The best part I can change the skill and I love how they compete against themselves. They also get a class score they try to beat. We finished Unit Three in Math. We will begin Unit 4 next week. It focuses on measurement.

Keep up the reading at home. It's great watching how much they've grown already. 

It is getting colder outside. Please make sure your child has a warm coat, hat and mittens. If you can label everything, it will make it easier when things get misplaced. It's a good time to check snow pants and boots to see if they still fit. Hoping we don't need them for a couple of months haha. Also, we go out twice a day. It's okay to send extra mittens and socks to keep in lockers in case they get wet during the first recess. Also, some kids like to keep snow pants and boots here. That is fine if you have extras. Hannaford recyclable bags are great to carry all snow gear in. Backpacks are just not big enough.

The kids are loving a puzzle I bought for the room. If anyone has any 100+ puzzles, we'd love to have a couple more for the room. They are amazing at putting them together!

Dates to Remember

*  Friday, Nov. 15, Today - Book Orders are due. 

* Monday, Nov. 18 - Wednesday, Nov. 20 - Ms. Kimball is away at a teacher conference. Mrs. Humphrey     will be here. School spirit days begin. Check the picture below for the schedule.

* Monday, Nov. 25 and Tuesday, Nov. 26 - Career Days

* Wednesday, Nov. 27 - Sunday, Nov. Dec. 1 - Thanksgiving Break.

* Wednesday, Dec. 4 - PreK - 3 Music Concert.

* Friday, Dec. 6 - K - 3 goes to see the Frogtown Puppeteers present The Grinch at The Grand in         Ellsworth. More info to come on that as we get closer.

* Friday, Dec. 20 - Flex and December break begins.

Happy Weekend!

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Puzzle Mania!

Creative Building!

Prodigy.

Afternoon Break.

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Happy Weekend!

First Grade News and Pics 11-7-24

 Hi! It was great to see all of you this week! After two twelve hour days, let's see if I can remember what we did haha. We did lots of publishing. We rewrote our big book, Lazy Mary. Our new book is called Lazy First Grade. It's about a teacher trying to make her first grade class wake up! We also wrote a new version of Pixie Tricks. Each child or pair had to write how they caught one of the 14 pixies that escaped into our school. Hopefully the books made it home so your child can share them with you.

In math we are working a lot on skip counting, finding the parts and total of a number model, using a number grid or number line to help us add/subtract and frames and arrows. We are constantly saying: 1. Did it get bigger or smaller? 2. How much bigger or smaller. We also learned how to use a calculator to skip count, add and subtract. They thoroughly enjoyed this and thought it would be a great idea to use them for all of our math problems from this day on. Their idea got vetoed but it was a good thought!

We had a Veterans Day Celebration today. Mr. McGovern came in and talked about his many years on a submarine in the navy. He shared lots of great pictures and stories. K-2 sang a special song at the event.

We had some great shares this week from students that used their gems to buy coupons. 

We learned to play Kahoot on the computer. Ask your child about it!

Dates to Remember

* Friday, Nov. 8 - Teacher Inservice. No school.

* Monday, Nov. 11 - Veterans Day. No school.

* Friday, Nov. 15 - Book Orders are due. 

* Monday, Nov. 18 - Wednesday, Nov. 20 - Ms. Kimball is away at a teacher conference. Mrs. Humphrey     will be here.

* Wednesday, Nov. 27 - Sunday, Nov. Dec. 1 - Thanksgiving Break.

* Wednesday, Dec. 4 - PreK - 3 Music Concert.

* Friday, Dec. 6 - K - 3 goes to see the Frogtown Puppeteers present The Grinch at The Grand in         Ellsworth. More info to come on that as we get closer.

* Friday, Dec. 20 - Flex and December break begins.

The Making of Lazy First Grade and Pixies at V.C.S.

Afternoon Break

Calculator Fun

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Veterans Day Celebration

Reading Workshop

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Happy Long Weekend!!