First Grade News: We are "beary" thankful!!

IMPORTANT INFORMATION TO NOTE!

Family Relatives and Friends are invited to the Lower School Division’s Chapel celebrating Thanksgiving

Grades One through Five will gather together for this special Chapel

When Nov. 22, 2011 8:30 – 9 AM Where: St. Paul’s Sanctuary

5^th grade students will be providing leadership in the service and our lesson will be provided by Father Stan. Liturgy and Prayers to the People will be offered by Fifth Graders

Ingathering of PRODUCE for the Pantry will be offered to complete the Pantry’s supplies for Thanksgiving. Faculty and Staff provide the bulk of the donations.

Families’ donations are welcome as well. Our grade level is donating: sweet potatoes! Donations will be accepted at the back of the Sanctuary and handled by Fifth Graders at the beginning of our service.

Please join us for this special Chapel created for the Lower School Division!

Howdy, First Grade Parents!

We hope you’ll join us for a rootin’, tootin’ good time at the O.K Corral (otherwise known as the North Wing MPR) on Thursday, December 15^th at 9:00 in the morning. Gather your kin folk and come find a seat as we serenade you with Christmas songs and tell the tale of Bubble Gum Bart and the other folks at Snowy Gulch! It’s really important that you dress your child in the following outfit, so we can all look similar and such:

ALL FIRST GRADERS:

SOLID-COLORED, LONG-SLEEVED RED OR GREEN TOP AND JEANS OR JEAN SKIRT AND TIGHTS, AND COWBOY/COWGIRL BOOTS (IF YOU HAVE THEM).

Please send a telegram….er….email….to mhaskamp@speds.org if you have any questions. Otherwise, we’ll see ya on the 15^th!

SPELLING WORDS FOR WEEK OF NOV. 29th-DEC.2nd

went

will

yes

than

about

back

after

I'm

been

big

December

subtract

Hanukkah

Kwanzaa

Scholastic Book Orders Going Home THIS Friday DUE: Friday, Dec. 2nd!!!

Opposites

Books in BAG

Volunteers are the best!!!

We read a big book with Mrs. W called Bear Wants More. After we read it the first time, we got to read it a second time and indentified nouns, verbs and compound words. For fun, we wrote a story from the Beary Beautiful Calendar Picture.
We have a new way to remember our short vowel sounds...Ask your child about "adams Apple "a" etc... We know and can illustrate opposites! It's super! Mrs. G came and played an action verb game. All the students are bringing back their books daily. Thank you for the cooperation we get in that effort!

Our bear theme pages will be coming home next week. If there are some pages not completed, as always they are welcome to finish those.

The seventh grade buddies invited us to see them in their Wax Museum. They were American Revolution Famous Heros. It was so impressive! You can tell they worked hard getting their facts about their famous person.

Please see Gingie Watt's blog regarding differentiation. As a school and so as a class we tier our instruction so we are meeting students at the level they are on in learning. In Math as well as Integrated Language we do this everyday . Our pictures represent things many students are doing in Math. They do not mean the entire class is working at these different levels.

Bear Planet was a great way for the first graders to convey what they have learned. We had the Sun Bears and the Koala Bears come in early to apply makeup to their faces.

Thank you parents for all your help in pulling these outstanding costumes together. You all are to be applauded!

We sure had fun!!!!