The children did a fantastic job of staying on task in spite of all the Fall and Harvest fun!   We learned the "Doubles Rap" and that chant helps us with adding numbers greater than 10!  We learned a strategy for addition by using our number lines.  We started at the BIG addend and counted up! 

 

Today we estimated seeds in our pumpkins and we measured circumference.  We made words from the words " Pumpkin and Patch"  and our winners were Rilee Grace, Logan, and Lindsey!  Super work girls! We also completed a candy tally graph thanks to all our parents!

 

Our Mystery Reader today was Mrs. Crowe and she read Spookly The Pumpkin  and There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Bat.   She ordered a pumpkin cookie cake and we went out dancing! 

 

Looking forward to Community Helper Presentations tomorrow and we will move on to Thanksgiving  and Opinion Writing next week. Don't forget our Doubles Test on Wednesday and ask your children about our fun "Would You Rather Graphs" for November. 

 

No School Tuesday so don't come...We won't be here! 
Have a great weekend and be safe Friday evening...

 

Get your money orders for coupon booklets in and also get your Art Work orders and form for Veteran's Day! 

We had such a wonderful week in 1st Grade.   Our engineering project was one of our successes.  Students rewatched a video about how the Empire State Building was built and it's features.  Then, we constructed our final buildings.  I emailed pictures of all groups home! If you didn't get the pictures, email me so I can add you to our list.  Students listed materials and wrote about how they constructed their buildings. 

The "Dog Walker"  was my second Book Talk Group! We learned the Silent E Rule of "Elvis in the House".  :)  Ask your child if they are in this group what we did!

I want to encourage you to make sure you going over reading and word cards at home.   Spelling gets a little more difficult.  Students on grade level for 100 Book should now be on "B" or higher.  Keep working hard!

We can't wait to see our moms for our Pumpkin Day on Thursday and don't forget to dress for Community Helper Day on Friday.  We have worked hard on our Question /Answer books and we look forward to presentations.

Welcome to October!

What a great start to October!  The kids listened to informational text books about several community helpers.  They wrote questions all week so we were prepared for our panel of random Oakland Parents who shared their jobs and experiences.  Walk to School Day was a blast!  The kids dressed and brought lego creations.   Thanks so much for joining us parents!  The Field  Trip was fabulous too!  I emailed pictures to parents who have emailed to be added to our Parent 2014 Group.  Please email me at school if you are NOT on that list!  :)

We are now ready to research and find answers about our community helper of choice.  Students will go to the Computer lab next week and observe several Blendspaces about their community helper and take notes for their books!  We will also work with our building materials as we become Structural Engineers!  Have a great weekend!

We had such a fun day by making "place value" skeletons.  We talked about our bodies and how under our skin is muscles and our bones.  Our bones give our body structure so we don't flop around like jello!  :)  We counted our q tips we used and wrote the number and how many tens and ones were in our number!

We closed the day with Count the Monkeys and Jennifer Bruce.  They loved her participation books!  She also worked with our small group Book Talk this morning.  Our BB/R readers were reading the book Hurricanes.

We can't wait for Community Helpers visitors and Field Trip next week!

 

 

We were  writing abot fall. theer was a elf and a gerl  and

the elf was frowing leefs at the gerl.- Colten



We were making tens by putting beans in  cups with nuber 10.- Grayson