FUN IN GRADE ONE: 2024

Friday, December 20, 2024

First Grade News and Pics

Hi! We made it through 2024! This week was filled with dress up days, tradition shares, crafting holiday presents and more. We had a great day starting it right off with Flex. Make sure to ask your child which one s/he picked. The kids also enjoyed seeing me get pied (a part of the VCS PTO auction) on Wednesday. When we return after vacation we will be learning about space. Have your child look out his/her window and check out the sky! A really cool, free app is called SkyView Lite. When you hold your phone to the sky it will tell you what you are looking at! It's always one of our favorite units so it's something fun to look forward to!

We read the book, The Night Tree, by Eve Bunting this week. It's a great story about how a family decorates a real tree in the wild each year to feed the animals. If you are looking for some family fun on Saturday, Field's Pond is holding a special reading and activity of this book. Here's the information about it: Field's Pond Link.

Have a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Enjoy your break and see you next year in 2025!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Friday, December 13, 2024

First Grade News and Pics 12-13-24

Did you know that today is Friday, the 13th AND there is a full moon this weekend AND Christmas is in 12 days?! We certainly know it in Grade One! In all serious though, we're holding it together the best we can. :)

Tradition Shares are going great. The kids are loving hearing what each other does for traditions. They are asking thoughtful questions and giving positive comments during them.

We are working on the all, oll and ull sounds in UFLI. This is our second week on them. They are tricky. We will use them again next week to make sure they stick. Any help at home would be great.

We took a walk today with Kindergarten through the 110,000 lights in the Hathaway Light Display! We talked about the place value in that number. We also took pictures as we stood in the place of the I so we can write about being the I in Veazie next week. If you haven't seen the lights yet, stop by some night and listen to the music and watch the show!

The Hampden Boys Hockey Team came and read with us today! We read to them after and shared a snack. They invited us to come watch them play sometime. Their first game is Saturday at 5:20 at Sawyer Arena.

Next week we will have a Spirit Week. I've attached a copy of the days in case your paper one didn't make it home. Please don't stress over these. I know how busy everyone is right now. Just have your child go find something they think they'd like to wear in their closet. Anything goes! :)

There will be NO HOMEWORK next week. We'll start back up in January.

Our Husson and UMaine students got done this week. Miss Ortiz will be back to do her 16 weeks of student teaching with us beginning in January. We are hoping to see Miss Valentin in the building substituting, too!

Hampden Boys Hockey Team came and read with us!