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!