Happy 3 Day Weekend everyone!!  Don't forget that school is closed on Monday October 1st for Fair Day!  Hope you can all make it to a fun day at the fair!!

Science

 

At last...our documentation of some of our work samples of our Science Investigations! Our tri-fold board is filled with student work, including their writing and illustrations.  Pretty amazing for 1st Graders!

Field Trip

We are going the pumpkin patch!!  Our field trip is on October 24th to Owen Spring Creek Farm.  Thank you to those parents who already filled out the paperwork and send the money in with your child.  2 THINGS:  We cannot accept checks...EXACT CASH ONLY!!  My apologies to those of you who filled out checks and sent them in today.  The office will not accept any checks.  Also, please make sure all the paperwork is filled out entirely (including the Emergency Medical Release Form on the back of the last paper)

Science Lessons

Hi all!  Wanted to give a quick update on how hard we are working in Science.  We are working on Investigating and Reasoning.  This can be quite a challenging concept for 1st Graders and they are doing amazing!  Our last investigation was "Who brought more lunches today, Boys or Girls?"  We were all surpised at how many steps we had to go through to reach our answer.  We documented all of our data through writing and drawing in our science journals and on paper.  We have been learning new Science terms such as: investigate, reason, predict, observe, data, etc.   We created a tri-fold board with all of our work samples...I will post a picture for you all to see!!  I encouraged them all to write about what they wanted to investigate next either in the classroom, in the big school building, or outside.  We took a vote on our next investigation.  Ryan's choice won!  He wanted to know which one of our friends can kick the ball the farthest.  I will keep you updated with our further investigations!

Book Fair

Book Fair is next week!!  We are signed up for next Wednesday 9/19 and Friday 9/21.  Students will have a chance to go on Wednesday and create their "wish list" and then bring their money (cash only) on Friday!!

As many of you may know, I was not in school yesterday.  I received a WONDERFUL report from all the substitute teachers that helped out yesterday.  What a great class we have!  We are truly off to a wonderful start of our new school year.  We are focused on teamwork in our classroom and it showed yesterday:)  I'm so proud of all of my students!

Assessments

We have started our beginning of the year assessments!  These include: Letter Recognition of Upper and Lowercase letters, Letter Sounds, Writing for Upper and Lowercase letters, and Sight Word recognition (100 words or more).  These results will be sent home by the end of next week:)  Thanks everyone!!

Remember that school is closed on Monday!  Happy 3 day weekend everyone!!