Hello First Grade Families! The month is coming to an end! That went too quickly! First grade is an awesome group of students! They work hard! And cheer each other on! I love seeing their smiling faces each morning. This past week we practiced subtraction using the count back from the total method. We also […]
Hello Families! I hope everyone had a wonderful long weekend! It looks like we are still in for cooler weather this week. Please make sure any new sweatshirts or jackets have your child’s name on them so they can be returned. I also wanted to mention how happy the students are with their families […]
Hello Families! We are in the last week together before Christmas Break. We are all in with everything Christmas! We spent the week celebrating Advent in class with the older students coming and introducing us to the “feast days” of saints celebrated this week. They also made “Families” very special this past Friday by helping […]
Hello Families! We have had several cold mornings! It is jacket time! Please have your student’s name on their belongings as we have had many throughout the grades floating around after recess. They tend to take them off when playing and then forget the outerwear when they line up to come back into the classrooms. […]
Hello Families! I hope everyone had a wonderful break! We are officially in the last three weeks before the new year. today is the end of the first trimester too! Last week we enjoyed making our soup! Opening up our pumpkin and doing our science exploration of what makes a pumpkin unique. We […]
Hello Families! Here we are at the beginning of our Thanksgiving week! Tomorrow we are looking forward to making our Stone Soup as a class. We are continuing to read a collection of Stone Soup tales that come from different places around the world too. With them, we are looking at characters, problems, solutions, and […]
Hello Families! Thank you to all who already brought the canned goods for our “Stone Soup” we will be cooking on November 20th. We do a unit on various “Stone Soup” tales worldwide. It is a wonderful dive into how authors present their versions of this classic tale. This past week we did a great […]
Hello Families! We had beautiful weather this past week and we enjoyed every minute! In class, we had fun writing about our Lego designs and doing our “Fact Families” with our Halloween math craft. We also practiced graphing and reading about different ways scientists use graphs every day! In reading, we worked on finding […]
Hello Families! I really enjoyed meeting with all of you to discuss how awesome your children are doing in first grade! Such great growth! Thank you all for coming to meet with me. This week we finished up our unit on camouflage and how animals use it to survive. We also reviewed points on writing […]
Hello Families! October feels like it is in a sprint! I cannot believe how quickly the month is going by! This past week we worked hard! In Reading, we focused on the “silent e” or what the “Secret Stories” call, “Mommy e” who when at the end of a word tells the vowel to say […]