Thank you for coming to Curriculum Night on Thursday Night. We loved sharing our daily routines with you. We also enjoyed having you come to your child's classroom. We are so lucky to enjoy your children all day, 5 days a week. They enrich our lives more than you can know. We love each and every one of them. After readign Margaret Wise Brown's book, "The Important Book." I can't wait for you to read what they wrote in our class book about" Why I'm important."
You have received a project due back September 17th called, "How I got My Name." We are referring to the child's whole name, not just their first name. Whatever information you have for us to get to know your child better and want to share, we will enjoy.
The Firefighters came and brought a pumper truck and a ladder truck last week and I didn't have a chance to write about it. They talked to the kids about how to behave when they are in a situation where they need a firefighter's assistance. You know the saying' "children say the funniest things?" When the firefighters said , "sometimes you see us driving fast, trying to get to a fire and just to test their listening the firefighter injected that it's ok to hit cars in our way, right???"." One of our first graders said YES in agreement. We all chuckled because they were "testing" us. Look over the pictures of our afternoon with them.
We also had a visit from our construction worker friend, Mr. Leckner from J.E. Dunn Construction Company. He talked about his 5 year apprentice for training and how he studied really hard to become a superviser. Our visitors helped us with 'live" examples of Community workers in anticipation for Labor Day and our theme.
Our science classes made their own "Dr. Ooze's glop." We watched the reaction that happens between two substances. We mixed borax solution with glue and watched what happened. It came home with the kids Friday. If it's still in their backpack, YIKES! It might have made a new substance over the course of this week:)
1/2 inch of elmers glue in a plastic cup
3/4 cup of borax
1 gallon of water
Mix the borax in the water. With a medicine dropper add two medicine droppers of the solution to the glue. Watch and observe like great scientists do. Add more dry borax as needed to firm up the "glop."
We tested our senses and drew our favorite things to taste, smell, touch, hear and see. Sam Kennedy was our blind-folded first grader in taking a senses test. Once we blind-folded him his other senses were more keen. He relied on his sense of touch alot to determine what he was holding each time. He immediately smelled the salt in his hand as it came out of the bag. He listened to an orange, yes I said "listened to an orange" before he realized it was an orange that he could smell and taste to determine what it was. We laughed so hard watching him explore.
Today in science we cut and pasted examples of living and non-living things. We have sent them home with their own Observation sheet to take a little stroll outside this weekend and write down what they see around their yard. They should list living and non-living things.
Today all of Mrs. Wiedeman and Miss Taylor's students had their tennis shoes for P.E. Congratulations!!!
The names of our first grade classmates has been a focus for us across the curriculum. In Math we have made and solved addition equations with vowels and consonants. For example, "Corbin" has two vowels and four consonants in his name ( 2+4=6) We have been looking at our months of the year by putting them in order, learning rhymes, songs, and counting vowels and consonants in the months of the year.
Try to have your child count the vowels and consonants in your name! If they bring it to class, we will brag about them...
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