Thanksgiving is Close...

Another great week in 1st Grade families!   We so enjoyed having lunch with our families and what a schoolwide turnout we had!  We finished our Book Drive and between all of 1st Grade, we collected over 500 books to give to our 4K Classes and Special Needs Pre-School Class.  We also shared with students who go to Morning Computer Lab as a gift for their hard work! 

Opinion/ Persuasive Writing was fun and students tried to decide if they wanted to play at my house or if I should come to their house...and why!   We will continue this writing into December as we prepare to write about why we would make a good elf for Santa! 

Lastly...

Happy Thanksgiving from the turkeys!  ;)

 

What a great week in 1st Grade.  We have been talking about Persuasive Writing and we are working on our "Book Drive" posters to convince other grades to join us in our efforts!  

 

We love to see our dads!  They were all so EAGER to have their pictures taken! ( HA!)   I think dads take a "back seat" to moms at times but this should never occur.  Their presence is an important one in shaping and molding the lives of their children!

 

Being an "Air Force" Brat myself...Veteran's Day is extrememly important.  May we never forget the blessings we have in this country.  So proud of my dad and brothers for their service and I know many of you understand that too.  Many important veterans in your lives.  The kids greeted our veterans and families and everyone beamed!  Some of the comments made by the kids to the passers were..."Thank you for your service,"  "Thank you for serving our country and the world," "Welcome and please come back"!  They sounded like a commercial.  We just told them to greet them and say "Welcome".   I think they really understood and were in "awe" of the men and women in uniform...  Great Day!

 

Next week, we will present our posters to 2nd grade and encourage them to join our Book Drive.  We will graph our book efforts and we will enjoy Thanksgiving Lunch with many of our parents. Get those lunch forms in!  Closing in on Thanksgiving!  Get your PTA Book orders in and thank you so much for everyone who has responded!  Encourage good listening and behavior as we head into the holiday season! 

 

The children did a fabulous job on their Community Helpers Presentations!  This was an "in class" project.   They needed to listen, learn, and practice using good writing!  Very proud of the effort and our  Community Helper visitors were wonderful!   This week we began Thanksgiving activities.  We are writing everyday about something we are thankful for.  We also researched ways to catch a turkey and wrote using "Beginning, Middle and End" to go along with our fiction story elements we are learning about!

We will continue learning about the sun and the moon next week with a test on Friday.  Above, the students are learning about rotating and revolving. We discussed how AMAZING the Solar System is!  It is so ordered! 

Next week, work on reading, reading, reading!  We will be sending Cold Texts home for reading and finding answers ( text evidencne) in the reading paragraph.   They need practice with this!  Please assist them!  There will be a test on Cold Text with questions and reading words only...

Get books in for our Book Drive!   We need gently used...not new! 
You are loved and greatly appreciated! 

Also, Veteran's Day on Tuesday at 9:00 with a special breakfast with all dad's at 7:00 AM in lunchroom!

Have a great weekend...