Filled With Gratitude!

We are so full of gratitude for the many blessings we have been given here at St. Paul's!  Especially, these wonderful first graders!!  It's amazing to think how far they've come in such a short time.  The way each one of these students has adjusted to our class is amazing!  We love watching them grow every day and seeing the wonderful talents each child possesses.  We are thankful to you all for sharing your children with us and your generous support you have given to the food pantry.  We are truly blessed to be a part of such a great community.

 

In language arts we worked on words with "r" blends, nouns, verbs, adjectives, building sentences, contractions, spelling practice, Thanksgiving packets and cornucopias just to name a few.

Lila is working on her cornucopia.

Page is practicing her spelling words with a turkey.

In Mrs. Waller's small group they worked on breaking 2 words down into a contraction.  They pretended to be surgeons to perform the task of cutting the words apart and then bandaging them up with band-aides once the new word was assembled.

Page is reading sentences and then identifying which words are nouns, verbs and adjectives.

Evan is reviewing his subtraction skills with subtraction bowling.

Spelling review with the Smart Board.  Making our words with "r" blends.

David made a squirrel for his Thanksgiving table.

Asa is working on his Thanksgiving packet.

Maddie read a phrase using adjectives and nouns and then illustrated it.

In math we worked on identifying groups of...  Mrs. Waller used a fun lesson where we sing a song called "Johnny Works with One Hammer".  As you can see below, this was a very hands-on, legs-on and heads-on lesson! 

Five groups of five! 5 X 5=25!

We used the smart board and Greg Tang's book, Math For All Seasons, to find groups of a number and then circled each group to show how a total can be broken down to show how numbers are multiplied. This helps the students count by seeing groups instead of counting 1 by 1 which, as a result, increases their number sense!

Problem solving with bears at Thanksgiving.

In social studies we've been discussing what gratitude means and how we can find things we're grateful for in the little things we see every day.  We decided to go on a gratitude hunt and made some magic gratitude goggles to help us.  It was amazing to see all the things around us that we are so grateful to have!  Many things we never even thought of before now.  Then, we recorded all of the things we discovered we are grateful for on a gratitude wall.

Field trip to the Folly!
"Stella the Snow Queen" was a great hit with our first graders and Mr. Myler took time out of his busy schedule to join us!

 Hands on science this week involved milk, food coloring, Q-tips and Dawn soap.  We made a chemical reaction to discover what happens when soap and fat (from the milk) interact.  The outcome was quite spectacular!  Then, we changed a variable to see what would happen if we took away the milk (fat) and exchanged it for water.  We definitely noticed a difference.

 

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.

November 26th, 27th and 28th: NO SCHOOL, Thanksgiving break

THURSDAY, December 12th: First and Second grade Christmas music program

The Community Learning Center is excited to offer you the first of many events, classes, programs, and guest speakers. As the hustle and bustle of the holiday season picks up, we invite you to slow down, have some fun, and reconnect with family and self.

Headed out of the house for a busy day?

Gearing up for an endless stream of Holiday fun?

Start it off right with some deep breathing, giggles, and gentle stretching… This event is for parents and children to relax, connect, and explore yoga together. We’re offering two convenient dates to accommodate your schedule:

Let go of all of the holiday STRESS and CHAOS for an hour with either: Lauren Hruby and/or Miriam Zavagnin (Mimi Z) Join us for one or both!

Limit 12 Families! Cost is only $15.00/per family

Sign up here: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0944a8aa2c7-family1

 

Have a wonderful weekend!!

Sara and Carey