First Grade News October 30th -November 3rd

What We're Working on This Week:

First Grade Curriculum:
Language Arts 

This week in Language Arts we will continue practicing in our journals with our new writing checklist.  The checklist includes transition words and opening and closing sentences. Our spelling focus will be words with the long i sound with final silent e (CVCe). We will continue reading aloud books on Fall,  Autumn, and Halloween (nothing scary just cute!)  and continue to work on making connections to the text with ourself, other texts, and the world. 

Social Studies

We will continue our unit on government! We will keep learning about symbols that represent our country and talk about voting and rights!

Math

In math this week, we will be learning applying what we've learned the last two weeks and begin ordering numbers. We will learn to use an open number line to compare our numbers from greatest to least and least to greatest. We will also participate in several fun fall math activities! 

Science

This week in science we will be continuing our unit all about Energy, Force, and Motion. We will be continuing to learn all about magnetism! We will learn how magnets can help push and pull objects. We will explore all about magnets through many fun hands-on experiments! 

Important Dates:

Friday, November 3rd - Pansy Planting (times TBD)
Friday, November 10th - Veteran's Day Ceremony
Friday, November 17th - Turkey Trot @ 12:30
NO SCHOOL - THANKSGIVING BREAK
November 20th - November 24th 2017 

Extra! Extra!
Service Learning

It's that time of the year!! Kindergarten is hosting it's annual shoe drive for our service learning project. We will be donating the shoes to the Salvation Army. Please bring any used shoes for our donation! We will have a collection box in A hall. Thank you!

Pumpkin Chunkin' Challenge

This past Wednesday, the first graders participated in a Pumpkin Chunkin' design challenge in the library! After reading the poem, "The Five Little Pumpkins," our learners were challenge to design a catapult that could launch a pumpkin over a gate. Here are some pictures of all our engineering fun!

First Grade News October 23 - October 27

What We're Working on This Week:

First Grade Curriculum:
Language Arts 

This week in Language Arts we will get a new writing checklist to include transition words and opening and closing sentences.   We will also begin a new unit in spelling that focuses on words that have the long a sound with final silent e (CVCe).  We will begin reading aloud books on Fall and Autumn and continue to work on making connections to the text with ourself, other texts, and the world.

Social Studies

We will continue our unit on government!  We will keep learning about symbols that represent our country and talk about voting and rights!

Math

In math this week, we will continuing our learning about comparing numbers. We will learn to look at the tens place first and then the ones place before comparing numbers. We will be able to use the vocabulary "greater than," "less than," and "equal to" like pros! We will also look at ordering numbers from greatest to least and least to greatest.

Here's one of our favorite comparing numbers songs!

Science

This week in science we will be continuing our unit all about Energy, Force, and Motion. We will be exploring all about magnetism! We will learn how magnets can help push and pull objects. We will explore all about magnets through many fun hands-on experiments! 

Important Dates:

Friday, October 20th - Report Cards go Home! 
**Please sign and return report cards and report card envelopes as soon as possible! Thank You!

October 23 - October 27th - Red Ribbon Week 

Monday: My ​Team ​Needs ​Me ​to ​Be ​Drug ​Free! Wear ​TCE ​Spirit Wear.
Tuesday: The ​Best ​Me ​is ​Drug ​Free! Wear ​an ​outfit ​that ​represents ​a ​healthy ​activity ​you ​enjoy ​(jersey/sport uniform, ​scout ​uniform, ​tae ​kwon ​do, ​a ​team ​you ​like ​to ​cheer ​for, ​etc.)
Wednesday: ​Put ​a ​Cap ​on ​Drugs! Wear ​any ​hat! ​(ball ​cap, ​crazy ​hat, ​etc.)
Thursday: Follow ​your ​Dreams, ​Be ​Drug ​Free! Wear ​your ​pajamas.
Friday: We ​Choose ​to ​Be ​Drug ​Free! Wear ​red ​for ​the ​Red ​Ribbon ​Run

Friday, October 27th - Jack O Lantern Jog @ 12:30 (First Grade)

Extra! Extra!

Service Learning

It's that time of the year!! Kindergarten is hosting it's annual shoe drive for our service learning project. We will be donating the shoes to the Salvation Army. Please bring any used shoes for our donation! We will have a collection box in A hall. Thank you!

From the Library

Please visit the link below to find out all about our first design challenge of the year!

https://www.smore.com/u6hxg