Ms. Turner's 1st Grade Travelers: December 2014

Thursday, December 18, 2014

Friday News and Merry Christmas!!!

THANK YOU to all the moms and dads who made the DELICIOUS food for our lunch today! The students had a good time and I had a good time - it was over all a VERY FUN time!! Thank you to the moms who helped serve and help with the crafts and games.

Christmas is only 7 day away! Are you excited? I am excited to spend some time with family.

THIS WEEK:

We...

Finished the Christmas story with our 12 pictures to describe the story - We even visited the Manger Scene at OCSI to give baby Jesus the gift of the wiseman!
Wrote a Christmas Acrostic
Had a special Christmas reader (Thanks Mrs. Woolery!)
Practiced reading Poetry (and we performed them for K5!)
Learned about Math Fact Power from IMS (I'm a Math Superhero)
Made salt dough ornaments (recipe here)
Finished Unit 4 of Math with a test - Good job students!

AND had a FANTASTIC CHRISTMAS PARTY!!!

Important Details for January

Spelling BEE - The Spelling Bee words were sent home on Wedensday. Please have your child study them over break! Our classroom bee will take place the second week after returning from Christmas Break. The top 3 winners from my class will be able to participate in the 1st and 2nd grade bee later on in January. The words will also be posted here.

Friday, December 19th to January 5th NO SCHOOL Christmas Break

Tuesday, January 6th - School starts

January 9th - Report Cards sent home

January 12th - Kite Day (Make sure to buy a kite over Christmas break, because they tend to sell out in January!)

January 16th - Character Parade (Start thinking of a favorite book character to dress up as!)

January 19th - Martin Luther King Jr Day - NO SCHOOL!

SEE YOU ON JANUARY 6th!!

Friday, December 12, 2014

Friday News and Upcoming Information!

Happy Friday! Christmas is in the air that it is hard to do any work, but we are continuing to learn a lot AND have fun in first grade!

This week:

Reading: This week we focused on two things “Making connections” and “Prior knowledge.” For “Making connections” we read the book Green Eggs and Ham and we thought if any part of that story connects to us. At first, I didn’t want to _______ but then I tried it and I liked it! We thought of some great things! For “Prior Knowledge” we read a book called The Berenstain Bears Down on the Farm. We wrote down everything we know about a farm first and then we read the book and added any details we figured out after reading the book.

Math: We are zooming through our math book with measurement this week! We used inches to measure. We also learned how to read a clock to the quarter hour. Phew that was difficult! A quarter to 8 o’clock … a quarter after 2 o’clock… the students are doing great though!! We will have an end of Unit 4 test next Wednesday!

This week we also did a centre rotations in 4 groups: measuring students’ heights, playing domino game, geoboard shapes, and base 10 blocks. Here are some pictures:

Writing: We started writing our own Acrostics this week! The students did AMAZING! Here are some examples:

Walks with no sound

Outside in the night

Lives in the forest

Fast as cheetah

Pink

In the mud

Grunts

Cold snow

Only snow is cold

Lot of times I slid

Drink hot cocoa

Music helps you sing well

Use piano to make a song

Some songs are hard

If you love music you will get better

Come and sing with us

Next week we will write a Christmas acrostic!

Today for Fun Friday we did Christmas Chalk outside!

Next Week:

Saturday, December 13th - tomorrow! Kaneko Koji Parent Seminar

Thursday, December 18th - Christmas Party NO Cafeteria Lunch , 12:30 Dismissal

Their party will take the place of their lunch, so they will need lots of goodies to make it a fun day. We would love for the parents to participate and send a food item to share with the entire class.

Some ideas are finger sandwiches, chicken nuggets, finger size foods, meatballs, cheese and crackers, fruit etc.

Be looking for an email soon to sign up for a food item to bring!

Spelling Bee:

During Christmas break, please study the Spelling Bee words with your child. Our classroom bee will take place the second week after returning from Christmas Break. The top 3 winners from my class will be able to participate in the 1st and 2nd grade bee later on in January.