Dear Parents, May 15, 2017 I hope all enjoyed Mother’s Day and your gift from your first grader! Language Arts: We are done with our Themes and Spelling Units! Woohoo! We will be spending the last few weeks of school researching our zoo animal in class. We will be reviewing our informative writing as […]
Dear Parents, May 8, 2017 Take a peak at what first graders are doing in first grade! Language Arts: We are doing an excellent job in our Opinion writing. We will be wrapping up Opinion writing soon so that we can review our Informative writing as we prepare for our upcoming zoo report. We […]
Dear Parents, May 1, 2017 My Goodness! It is May! Congratulations to our poetry winners –Savannah placed first and Abby placed third! Woo-hoo! Language Arts: We are moving into writing about our opinions without the help of collections! We are finding restaurants, toys, books, movies, TV shows that we have opinions on and using […]
Dear Parents, April 24, 2017 I hope everyone enjoyed Easter break! We are back to work in first grade! Congratulations to our poetry finalists – Nicholas, Savannah, Khloe, Abby, and Sophia D. Language Arts: We are planning to have a mini-publishing party on Tuesday so that we can share our work with our neighbors. […]
Dear Parents, April 10, 2017 Here is what first graders are doing this week… Language Arts: We will have a little time this week to work on our opinion writing. We are continuing to challenge ourselves to find ways to persuade others. In phonics this week, we are focusing on suffixes and our vowel […]
Dear Parents, April 3, 2017 Here is what first graders are doing this week… Language Arts: We are continuing to challenge ourselves in our opinion writing unit. We are looking for ways to persuade someone. In phonics this week, we are focusing on prefixes “un” (not) and “re” (again) and our base words with […]
Dear Parents, March 27, 2017 Here is what first graders are doing this week… Language Arts: We are continuing our work on our opinion writing unit. In phonics this week, we are focusing on the sounds for “y”. When the y ends a short word it typically will have the long /i/ sound. If […]
Dear Parents, March 20, 2017 Congratulations to Danicka on winning the Palmisano Writing Contest for the Primary level! Woohoo! Happy Spring! Here is what first graders are doing this week… Language Arts: We are working on our opinion writing unit. In phonics this week, we are focusing on our base words and endings –ed […]
Dear Parents, March 13, 2017 First graders were working very hard on their works for the Palmisano Writing Contest. I would like to first congratulate the finalists for the Palmisano Writing Contest: Drake, Savannah, Nicholas, Danicka, and Kaitlyn. We will have a special assembly on March 19, where these and other finalist will be […]
Sixth graders are studying earthquakes in science and today in our lab they had to design and build a building out of marshmallows and toothpicks on a base of jello. They had to transport it to our earthquake table and the buildings had to withstand a “Mr. Merkord Earthquake”. This year the buildings withstood the […]