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...

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