Beginning in the 2022-23 School Year, our school will be moving to the Schoology platform. The Schoology platform will be where I will be updating you on classroom happenings.
I will no longer be updating this site. If you are a member of my 2022-23 classroom, you will be receiving a letter from me in August. This will let you know about our class and what your child will need. Have a wonderful summer! May it be rich with learning experiences. Hello Families,
We are entering our last days of school. I wanted to thank you for having the opportunity to be your child's teacher. This week a few more things will come home. Over the past week your child's writing folder and monthly portraits came home. The kids really enjoyed looking at all of the writing they have done and how their work changed over the course of the year. The class had a visit from Mrs. Ballou, the children's librarian at The Whipple Free Library. She shared information about the Summer Reading program. This is a fun and incentive filled program, that offers many fun activities, but most importantly...lots of opportunity for READING. This could be a great way for your children to keep up the growth that they have made this year. I look forward to our last days. We will be enjoying our hike on Monday. We will also be finishing up a Social Studies project. We created our own National Holidays. The kids had some great ideas. National Candy Day, National Bring Your Pet to School Day, National Eat Ice Cream Day, etc. We will be reviewing information on the American Flag and then creating a flag to go with our specially created holiday. Have a wonderful and safe summer. We had a wonderful field trip. We used our experience and researched farm animals. We created a "Talking Research" report on farm animals. I will email your child's "Talking Research" home soon. Be on the look out!
Next week we will be reading about different traditions in our country. We continue to focus on the concept of continent, country, state, and town. This is a tricky concept for some. We have been working on adding two digit numbers by using our knowledge of place value. Some children are exploring regrouping ones and tens. We will continue with this next week as well as wrapping up our work in our second Math Journal. Your child's Writing Folder went home on Friday. Please cherish this folder. Your child has done some amazing writing. Next week we will celebrate all of the wonderful reading our school has done. We will also have Field Day on Thursday. On Friday, we will have our last Friday Forest School. For this one, we will be hiking on the Mill Pond Conservation trail. Be on the lookout for a permission slip on Monday. We are excited for our Field Trip tomorrow.
Please be sure to read my previous posts on what to bring. Additionally, it is supposed to be chilly and a chance of rain. Long pants and rain jackets are highly suggested. Reminder...sunscreen and bug spray should be applied at home. We will have an author visit from Marty Kelley on May 31st.
Field Trip is June 1st! Your child will need the following: 1. A snack and a drink 2. A lunch 3. A towel or small blanket to sit on when picnicing 4. Please be sure that your child wears comfortable foot-wear and that toes are covered. No sandals or flip flops please. 5. Please apply sunscreen prior to coming to school. On June 3rd we will celebrate all JUNE birthdays. Please see the post below if your child has a JUNE birthday. If your child has a JULY or AUGUST birthday, these celebrations will be the following week. (See the post below for more information) We are eagerly awaiting the arrival of our chicks! Hatch Day is Tuesday. We were in awe on Friday. It was our last time to candle, and we were able to see movement! If all goes well, we will have SIX chicks this week!
Last week we worked on adding and subtracting ten and counting on by 2 and 5 from a given number. We will have a math assessment early this week. We will then be working on adding two digit numbers with regrouping ones to tens. We will have our final spelling test of the year this week. We will then be focused on showing what we know with our end of the year assessments. Families, thank you for keeping the momentum going. These last few weeks are important learning weeks. We will be asked to apply what we have learned throughout the year. At the same time, the kids are excited about the onset of summer, but also can be apprehensive about leaving their classroom and classmates. One of the things we will be doing is celebrating summer birthdays. I have selected three days that we will celebrate summer birthdays. If your child has a summer birthday, and would like to bring in a pre-packaged treat on that day, that would be great. I do ask that they be pre-packaged, and if they could be gluten-free, that would be wonderful as well. Please let me know if you plan to do this. On this day, every child with a birthday in that summer month will take their trip around the sun, be sung Happy Birthday, and receive a special birthday certificate. Here are the dates. JUNE birthdays will celebrate on June 3rd. JULY birthdays will celebrate on June 7th. AUGUST birthdays will celebrate on June 10th. Our field trip permission slip went home on Friday. Please sign and return. We have been learning, learning, and learning.
Please ask your child about our eggs. We have candled the eggs twice. Our eggs are quite dark, so it is difficult to see, but we are definitely noting changes! We completed and displayed our writings about working together. The kids did a great job describing a time they had to work with another or a group. We learned about the Bald Eagle and why it is a National Symbol. We will continue to learn about National Symbols through Memorial Day. This week we will read about how weather affects people, and we will also write about how the weather makes us feel. In math we are winding up our unit on fractions, time, and shapes. Time to the half-hour can be tricky. Any opportunity to share what time it is with your child will help your child to master time to the hour, half-hour, and beyond. The more exposure your child has, the easier this concept will become. We often work on matching digital clocks to analog clock time so that your children will have a balance of both. A note about t-shirts came home on Thursday. Please complete the form and send it in by Monday. If this is a hardship in any way, please send in what you can. We have resources to help. Be on the lookout for information about our upcoming field trip. We will be heading to Carriage Shack Farm on June 1st. Information and a permission slip will come home later this week or early the following. Families, I appreciate all that you are doing to support your children! They are doing a great job learning to be good friends, good community members, and fantastic learners. Hello Families,
This week au and aw are our patterns for reading and spelling. Our goal is to use our spelling words as examples and models to read and spell more words with these patterns. We are working to read and spell, not just for a test, but for a lifetime. I hope you have heard about our eggs! Please ask your kids to tell you about the eggs, the word oviparous, the incubator, the temperature, and the humidity levels! This week we are revisiting community helpers and we are learning about symbols of America. The weather is warming and our days together are winding down...BUT there is STILL a lot to learn. Please keep regular learning routines in place. It is very much school as usual in the classroom, and keeping home and bedtime routines consistent will help your child to maximize these last weeks of important and essential learning. I am looking forward to seeing the class tomorrow!
Be on the lookout for a permission slip. We will be heading out with the Forestry Commission to plant evergreen trees on Friday. A Forest School field trip! This week we will be working again on the topic of working together. In math we are working on fractions and exploring three dimensional shapes. We continue to review time, sums and differences to 20, and explaining our reasoning. We have a BIG science topic coming up, and the kids will be coming home with some exciting news about this on Tuesday! Top Secret until then, but here's a hint...this project will take 21 days to hatch! :] We will wrap up our reading unit this week. This will be a reading assessment week. We will be reviewing and testing the skills learned over the course of the unit. There WILL NOT be spelling words going home this week.
We will learning about the earth. Please have your child bring an empty, rinsed container to school. It should be from a product that your family has used, such as a yogurt or milk container, a water or soda bottle, an empty cardboard box, or a coffee can. NO glass please. Please have your child bring this to school by Wednesday. We are also going to be doing some planting on Friday. Forest School becomes GARDEN School. If you would like to contribute some hardy annuals to our garden, we'd love it. Pansies and Alyssum are always a big hit with first graders, and they are hardy! We are learning about 3 dimensional shapes and fractions this week. We are solidifying our understanding of time to the hour and half-hour. Some students are beginning to branch out and explore time at the quarter marks as well. Finding opportunities for your child to check the time on both an analog and a digital clock will help our child to master this concept. |
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