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| HAPPY MARDI GRAS! |
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| Oscar's Flying Fox Shirt! |
We have had a great week! WOW! The animals have trickled in all week....they are wonderful. We continue to study the amazing continent/country/island of AUSTRALIA and to top it off we threw in a little New Orleans style Mardi Gras celebration! Take a look at our week's pictures. There are some great ones!
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| John and Oscar complete their FLAT STANLEY activity. |
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| ESCAPE THE SNAKE spelling activity |
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| After reading KOALA facts, Lily chooses her favorite fact to place on her very own KOALA! |
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| Shhhhh.....John is going on a LONG VOWEL hunt! |
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| Carter listens to My Home In Australia.... |
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| Guided Reading with the teacher..... |
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| Carmen and Lamar finish up their Australian animal reports. |
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| Together we learn about -ed and -ing endings.... |
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| Aboriginal Artwork |
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| Sophie completes Mountain Language independently! |
In math we have continued our study of fractions. Your children know that a fraction is an equal part of a whole. We have learned the terms whole, half, third and fourth. We are slowing learning how to write our fractions as well: 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, etc. IMPRESSIVE....one word to describe how well your children are understanding this concept. We also continue to review money and time!
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| Oscar has 4 chips; 3 out of 4 (3/4) are red and 1 out of 4 (1/4) are yellow! |
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| Maya has 4 chips; 2/4 are red and 2/4 are yellow! |
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| Hard at work creating her picture made out of equal parts! |
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| Sophia's butterfly is made of 4 equal parts; 2/4 are purple and 2/4 are green! |
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| A QUIZMO coin recognition review! |
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| Jackson working on his fish with 9 equal parts! |
In social studies the children have been learning about the states and territories of Australia. They have also started to learn more about Australia's great wonder: THE GREAT BARRIER REEF. In TNT on Wednesday the children created their very own reef as they added colorful fish and jellies to our room.
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| Identifying Australia's 5 states and 2 territories! |
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| Charlotte creates her colorful fish; a part of the Great Barrier Reef! |
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| Our very own GREAT BARRIER REEF with colorful fish and jellies! |
Pictures from our Mardi Gras celebration. A special thanks to Carmen's family/Sasha's Baking Co. for providing the delicious King Cake. Look who found the baby!
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| Look at this AMAZING cake! YUMMY! |
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| A special thanks to Sasha's Baking Co.! |
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| If we can't be in NOLA then we will bring the party here! |
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| Look who found the baby! |
In Hands-On Science the
children learned even more about the Great Barrier Reef. This amazing
ecosystem is so fascinating. It stretches over 1200 miles along Australia's eastern coast, it is the largest living structure in the world and can be seen from outer space! Look at
the pictures below as the children create their very own miniature
reefs! We will feed them over the weekend and watch them grow!
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| Pouring salt, a mineral, on the charcoal to create our very own coral! |
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| The BIG BOMB REEF, after the water, salt and liquid bluing have all been added! Will a coral reef form? |
Thank you to our volunteers this week; Emma's Mimi, Sophie's mom (who got out before we remembered to grab a picture....sorry) and Kate's mom! You have helped us prepare many lessons and transform our room into a great learning environment! We appreciate all you do.
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| Mimi's first visit to the classroom! |
SPELLING
Skill: controlled vowel- "ar" and "er"
Words: farm, part, card, chart, yarn, start, fern, her, perch, kernel
Challenge Words: Perth, computer, Outback, spring
SURPRISE???????
REMINDERS
********Wednesday, March 12th: Please have your child wear all black for the International Festival. Do not go out and buy anything...just do your best. They will be taking part in an Australian Animal Parade. The focus will be their animal, but we would love for the kids to look uniform; hence the reason for all black! We thought this would be easy and keep it simple.
SPRING BREAK is the week of March 17th, No school Monday March 24 for faculty development. Classes will resume Tuesday, March 25!
Thank you once again, for the amazing support you show us and the help you provided your child with their Australian animal. You should see our room....it looks incredible! You can relax....that should be the last big project for first grade....sad, but true. Enjoy your weekend! This time of year is so amazing and rewarding for us.....your children are blossoming and becoming such independent problem solvers! We LOVE it! See you Monday!
Love,
Sara and Carey
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