First Grade News: Down Under!

WHAT A BUSY YET PRODUCTIVE WEEK IN FIRST!!!!

VISITING THE RAIN FOREST....SOME EVEN WITH SIBLINGS ENJOYED HAVING THEM TELL ALL ABOUT THE ANIMALS....

Blakely & Brady

Margot & Ginger

Addie & Ryann

We had a short yet extremely busy week. We started Monday off by painting our Australian animals. Thank you so much to Mrs. Becker, Mrs. Zaborny, Mrs. Morris, Mrs. Waller & Mrs. DeLeon. We really appreciated all your help!!!!

Coco & her mom hard at work....

The Morris Family

The Zabornys

The Beckers

Ryann & her mom painting the Fairy Penguin

Margot painting the Fur Seal

While some were painting...others were doing a tic-tac-toe board out in the commons. It was a very productive day!

Centers this week: T,W, TH

Venn Diagram (Koalas VS Humans)

Marsupial Sue on Tumblebooks.com

making boomerangs

Australia Outback Olympics & graphing practice

THANK YOU FOR YOUR DONATIONS TO THE ST. PAUL'S PANTRY....THE KIDS LOVED DRESSING UP AND CONTRIBUTING FOR SPIRIT WEEK!

Guided with the Teachers we worked on our Australian Research over our Australian Animals...we are off to a great start!!!

TNT- (Try New Things) this week we reviewed different math concepts....we reviewed money by playing a difficult game of money bingo. The children had to add up the different coin combinations on their bingo card to get the correct answer. It was more challenging than they thought. We also reviewed time this week by playing time bingo. They had to find the correct clock on their bingo card that matched the correct time.

Math- We took our 3rd Quarter Math Assessment that covers all of the concepts we have learned about since the 2nd Quarter. We will share both the 2nd Quarter & 3rd Quarter Math Assessments with you during conferences next week. We worked in our math theme pages. We did a fun QR Scan Scavenger Hunt with Place Value Math with the iPads.

Social Studies- We learned all about the geography of Australia, The Sydney Harbour Bridge, The Sydney Opera House, the weather, Koalas and more! We made lizards with Aboriginal art & symbols on them.We also learned all about the Aborigines.

Hands on Science: We did an experiment on growing coral. This goes along with The Great Barrier Reef and Coral Reef that we have been learning about in class.

Computer Lab:www.learningforkids.com We let the children have a free choice day on that site because there are so many different educational games on there. Some of the ones they enjoyed were: Math Man, Painting Animals & Math Lines 10.

Reminders & Homework:

-We are still missing some conference questionnaires if you could send them in ASAP that would be great!

-Parent/Teacher Conferences: March 5th & 6th.

-Work on decorating your Australian Animal, stapling it & stuffing it Due March 9th or upon completion
-NO SPELLING TEST NEXT WEEK SINCE WE HAVE PARENT/TEACHER CONFERENCES! THEY WILL CONTINUE THE FOLLOWING WEEK.
-Book in the bag will continue after the projects towards the end of the Australia theme.
-March 11th International Festival @school

This is Mrs. Sansale's last school day so from now on if you need to send an email please send it to: Maeve: moconnor@speds.org or Beth: bherbers@speds.org