First Grade News: Thankful Thoughts...

Centers this week: We worked on our spelling words putting them in ABC Order, writing them on a turkey, and tossing a ball with a partner as we spelled the words. We wrote Thanksgiving stories, listened to a Thanksgiving listening center, practiced writing our verbs & nouns on the SmartBoard, circled verbs in sentences, we worked on the computer to practice subtraction, we pulled verbs & nouns to make sentences, we matched up contractions in a memory game, we loved using nouns, verbs, adjectives in our very own MadLibs, we used the iPads to practice our math facts addition & subtraction, we went on a noun scavenger hunt, we filled out a verbs book, and we used blend and digraph cards to answer some questions.

Having a Plurals Party!!!

Learning all about Main Idea & Supporting Details

Rolling the ball as we spell out our spelling words...

Writing Good Sentences

Math: We are learning all about place value. The kids are starting to understand that each number has a place and a value. We practiced this concept with our Place Value chart & straws. They have learned about the ones, tens & touching on the hundreds house. They played Place Value Bingo and used Place Value Mats with base ten blocks. We have also been reviewing subtraction, subtracting two digit tens, and subtracting 2 digit numbers from 1 digit numbers.

Matching up numbers for ex: 39 sits with 3 tens & 9 ones

In Social Studies the kids learned all about Native Americans. We also made turkey puppets and did a turkey craft with pom pom balls as the feathers. Later in the week we made Thanksgiving chains that said...I am Thankful for..., and we made Thanksgiving scrolls that are a surprise!

Computer Lab: abcya.com we are making word clouds & working on our typing skills...

TNT: TRY NEW THINGS: We made turkeys out of pasta. Miss Fate can't wait to use them in her chapel lesson coming up next week.

Hands on Science:We learned how to make a rainbow in a glass with density and sugar demonstrations. And we also made our very own glue/food coloring/dish washing soap designs on plates to continue from our experiment last week.

Spelling Words: (They will come home next Tuesday instead of today since we have a short week next week and the test will be the Friday following Thanksgiving Break)
Regular Words: long, song, sing, ring, bring, thing, he'll, she'll, I'll, you'll
Challenge Words: eight, menorah, Kwanzaa, unity
Surprise the Teacher Word: ???

INFO.
We are stopping book in the bag until after Thanksgiving.

We will start our new mini theme: Festivals of Light a little before Thanksgiving Break. Our class will start off learning about Kwanzaa for a week.

What an amazing ingathering we experienced in the last two weeks! As usual, your generosity is overwhelming and the people who serve our families through the pantry are so grateful for the abundance which will help see the families they serve through the holiday season. It was definitely a community effort, with so many bringing in items; students and faculty hauling the items to the pantry; Student Council members receiving and recording items donated; and Mr. N and Mrs. Willets supervising it all. But the big winner was the St. Paul’s Food Pantry!!!