FIRST FULL MONTH IN FIRST

WE HAD A GREAT PICTURE DAY!!! CHEESE!!!!

Your children are impressing us every day! Take a look at the pictures below. The pictures are from our integrated language arts block in the mornings. The activities below were completed in their centers this week!

Free Flow App

Vowels/Consonants Addition with Miss Fate

Text-To-Self Connections, Text -To-Text Connections & Text-To-World Connections with Mrs. Wyllie

Compound Word egg match up

Sight Word Game Wordless

Pancake flip -ill, -it words

Write it, trace it, Say it on Screens

Venn Diagram comparing and contrasting 2 books

Vowel Consonant Game

Making Words with -ick and -ink

Our Writing Journals with Pete the Cat!

Compound Words our class book

Indoor Recess: Chess, Beads, Friendship bracelets, iPads, Stencils, Games, Legos & More!!!

SOCIAL STUDIES--In Social Studies the students have been presenting their FAMILY COLLAGES & THEIR HOW I GOT MY NAME HOMEWORK PROJECTS.  This is a great way for the students to learn to be a good listener and to practice their public speaking skills in front of their classmates.  The students love learning information and new things about one another.  Last week we taught the students about the multiple intelligences and we discussed how we all learn differently. It is important for the students to start to discover how it is that they learn best. We continue to work in our theme notebooks as we learn about ourselves, others and our caring community.  This theme is such a great way to start the year as we build our own amazing classroom community.   Below are some of the family collages...we can't wait to hear about the others!

In Math we are introducing the concept of fact families, 100's charts, skip counting & missing addends (which is beginning algebra) and we have continued to talk about all the combinations of numbers that make 10! Your children are doing so well in math. They love number corner; especially coming up with the equations for the day.

10 Frames & Part/Whole Cards

TNT (Try New Things)-- We were so lucky to have Mrs. Gould, an architect, come and visit with all the first graders.  She told them all about her job and they watched a PowerPoint slideshow learning  what she does each day.  The best part of the presentation was the Marshmallow Challenge activity.  This was a great team building activity and it was a great learning experience. We can't thank her enough!!!

TNT---Dana Gould

The Marshmallow Challenge...how tall can you get it using spaghetti, tape, string and a marshmallow that has to go on the top???

Thanks to Amy Hawley (Kate Rose's mom) from NBCAction News Ch.41 for talking about her job & recording the kids....fingers crossed it will be on the News Ch. 41 tomorrow night at 6pm....if we are lucky.

Buddies-- We met with our 7th Grade Buddies this week for the first time.  The first graders showed them all around the room.  We ate cookies with them and chatted for some time.    We also got to sit with them in the church today.  It was so exciting to finally meet our buddies.  What a special treat!

Hand on Science--This week in Hands on Science we did a sink or float lesson.  It went along with what we learned last week about surface tension.  Ask your children all about our experiment.  It was a great time finding out if the predictions we made came true.

Computer Lab-- In computer lab this week the children explored Kidspiration again.  What a wonderful computer program! They worked on a community lesson and a math lesson over patterns.

REMINDERS:

*PLEASE SIGN UP FOR A PARENT/TEACHER CONFERENCE ONLINE THROUGH THE LINK WE SENT YOU IF YOU HAVEN'T DONE SO ALREADY.

-O.T, SPEECH, HEARING SCREENINGS NEXT WEEK (you can still turn in your forms early next week)

-PET BLESSING & SPIRIT DAY IS NEXT FRIDAY 

-BUDDY RUN...OCT.4TH

We have had another great week! The time is flying by because we are having so much fun. Enjoy the Family Fun Fest, The Plaza Art Fair and your weekend.
Melissa & Jenny