Hello First Grade Families!
Spring is in the air! The first graders had a wonderful week. I am pleased to report our Animal Books are off to a great start! Great job boys and girls! Please continue to praise your child @ home for his/her terrific writing and researching skills. This week we chose our animals, worked on graphic organizers, made sloppy copies, and began our final copies....Wow! As many of you know, the book will have 4 main focus pages what the animal looks like? what it eats? where it lives? and what it fears? Your children are very engaged with this project. They are eager to find information. PLease continue to encourage this hands on project @ home. The connections we can make together are endless. Next week we will focus on our final copies, as well as an animal poem,dedication page and our cover page. We will also be making our animal out of model magic, so please keep that in mind when you are at Michaels ,Target or A.C. Moore. A special thank you to all of our parents and family friends for their support and guidance throughout this project. Keep up the great parenting!
In literacy this week we started reading Ways People Live (nonfiction). We brainstormed the different ways people live (climate, clothes, food). We will continue this unit next week. We will review nonfiction books in reading groups and adjectives as a whole class.
The first graders completed the Solid Figures unit. We will be moving on....closed and open figures, as well as positioning words. Please continue to review right and left , beside, and on top of at home with your child. We will be reading It Looked like Spilt Milk and discuss symmetry. I am sure your child will know what a line of symmetry is by the end of the week.
I am also excited to share... we will be taking our passports and off to the cultural festival we go on Thursday, April 15th. We briefly have discussed the different countries we will be visiting (Columbia, Uruguay, Sweden, China) Very exciting! We also talked about where we live and used our map skills to find North America.
Science will be on our minds when we return from vacation. Ladybugs have been ordered and the gardening will begin. We are looking forward to planting at our very own Hoover Garden. Great work and dedication Mrs. Jaggers, Mrs. Wozniak, Mrs. Garnier and friends! Hooray for you!
Have a wonderful vacation!
Jennifer Flynn
Friday, April 9, 2010
Friday, April 2, 2010
Hello First Grade Families!
What a fun week we had! The highlight of our week was of course our Opening Day celebration. A special thank you to The Hitchman Family.....we loved the hot dog/sausage stand! The balloons, hot dogs, burgers, servers, dessert and perfect weather were all fantastic!Thank you to the Casey Family for the delicious Spring dessert, yummy! What a great first grade memory! The Red Sox sure do have a lot of fans...the shirts, hats and sweatshirts looked awesome! Thanks for participating!
In the classroom this week the children were busy learning all about describing words. I am sure your child may share with you what an adjective is? We also read a folktake called Little Rabbit's Tale. The children also worked on a writing assignment this week. They chose a noun and had to describe what they wrote about. I then had a short writing conference with each child to talk about their writing. Great job boys and girls!
Mathematically, We started our unit on solid figures and plane shapes. The kids are having a great time using many hands-on objects to determine different shapes. We had many math centers. The children used objects to see if the shape would roll, stack, or slide. We also learned about the sides and vertices of shapes. The children were able to draw a building using different shapes...they loved this center! Next week we will continue with this unit. The children will be using pattern blocks to make a model using different shapes. Please continue to encourage @ home!
We have exciting news to share.....next week we will begin our animal books! Please see the notice sent home on Monday, April 5, 2010. We would love your help in the classroom! With support, patience, and guidance these books will be a success! Thanks in advance, for your help. Your child will be choosing his/her animal on Monday, April 5th. Very exciting!
Enjoy the weather!
Jennifer Flynn
What a fun week we had! The highlight of our week was of course our Opening Day celebration. A special thank you to The Hitchman Family.....we loved the hot dog/sausage stand! The balloons, hot dogs, burgers, servers, dessert and perfect weather were all fantastic!Thank you to the Casey Family for the delicious Spring dessert, yummy! What a great first grade memory! The Red Sox sure do have a lot of fans...the shirts, hats and sweatshirts looked awesome! Thanks for participating!
In the classroom this week the children were busy learning all about describing words. I am sure your child may share with you what an adjective is? We also read a folktake called Little Rabbit's Tale. The children also worked on a writing assignment this week. They chose a noun and had to describe what they wrote about. I then had a short writing conference with each child to talk about their writing. Great job boys and girls!
Mathematically, We started our unit on solid figures and plane shapes. The kids are having a great time using many hands-on objects to determine different shapes. We had many math centers. The children used objects to see if the shape would roll, stack, or slide. We also learned about the sides and vertices of shapes. The children were able to draw a building using different shapes...they loved this center! Next week we will continue with this unit. The children will be using pattern blocks to make a model using different shapes. Please continue to encourage @ home!
We have exciting news to share.....next week we will begin our animal books! Please see the notice sent home on Monday, April 5, 2010. We would love your help in the classroom! With support, patience, and guidance these books will be a success! Thanks in advance, for your help. Your child will be choosing his/her animal on Monday, April 5th. Very exciting!
Enjoy the weather!
Jennifer Flynn
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