Updates

We are looking forward to our parent volunteers tomorrow morning for our Fall Festival.  Please plan to arrive to the classroom at 9:05.  There will be three classrooms that will rotate through nine centers.  It should be a great morning!  We will enjoy a few snacks in the afternoon.

I am looking forward to meeting with you for parent/teacher conferences this week and next.
• Early Release this Wednesday at 12:50 pm.    
• Early Release on Wednesday, November 8th at 12:50 pm.

Here's just a glimpse on what we've been working on:

• Finished our first Reading Unit-Reader's Build Good Habits.  We celebrated by posting a reading strategy on Seesaw.
• We are excited to begin our next unit about Nonfiction texts this week.
• Practiced tapping and spelling words with /short e/
• Worked on the formation of lowercase a, b, c, o, d, g, q and e
• Began a chapter read aloud called My Father's Dragon.  Your child may want you to read the second and third book to them when we conclude the first.  We have the books in our school library.
• Continued working on our "Small Moments" stories
• Created three clues about our Halloween costumes
• Worked on solving addition and subtraction equations with the number line.  Learned how to draw our own number lines as a tool to solve facts independently

Here are some questions to promote school talk...

1) Who is Mystery Doug?
2) How did you describe your Halloween costume?

3) Can you show me how to tap out short vowel words?

4) Can you explain to me how to subtract two numbers?

5) Can you tell me about your STEAM challenge last week with the pumpkin and the paper chain?  

Updates

Our Fall Festival is on Tuesday, October 31st. Jen Carter, Becky Betts, Rebecca Curtis, and Anna Mocny have volunteered from 9:15-11:40.  If I missed your name by mistake, please let me know. If you'd still like to volunteer, there is still time to let me know.

Jen Carter is our Room Parent.  She may have contacted you to donate a treat for the afternoon of our Fall Festival.  We won't need parents in the afternoon.  Thank you, Jen for organizing our events during the year!

Also, thank you to Val Berezin who helps stuff our folders each Friday, hangs various art work, and does a variety of other things as needed!

We have enjoyed seeing the various parents who have begun to volunteer for centers in our classroom. We look forward to seeing more as our schedule allows.  Thank you volunteers!

We hope our Jack-o-lanterns make you smile!

For a STEAM challenge we worked with a partner to see who could make the longest paper chain.  Each pair had two pieces of paper and one foot of masking tape.  It was great to see how they worked together to problem solve and create.

Look at all the pennies/money the school raised for Pennies for Puerto Rico! Thank you for your donations!

Coppal House Farm Corn Maze

We had a beautiful day at the farm!  

Fire Safety Day

Please Mark Your Calendars:

FIELD TRIP to Coppal House Farm Corn Maze on Tuesday, October 17th...AM Only
Please pack a snack and drink from home. 

If you are a chaperone for our field trip: Please arrive at Coppal House Farm in Lee, NH no later than 9:10.  We will be loading the buses back to school around 11:20

First Grade Fall Festival - Tuesday, October 31st.  

Here's just a glimpse on what we've been working on:

• Worked on tapping out short vowel words 
• Working on writing across pages with our Small Moment Stories
• Played Subtraction Bingo and Subtraction Bowling during math workshop
• Started our first few lessons on I Ready
• Had a visit from the Stratham Volunteer Fire Department on Fire Safety
• Continuing to build good reading habits during Reader's Workshop

Here are some questions to promote school talk...

1) Can you tell me 3 important things you learned Fire Safety on Friday?
2) What was your favorite part of the Fire Safety centers?  Was it going on the firetruck? Was it seeing Sparky?  Was it seeing the firefighter dress up in his gear?

3) What happened to the bread in your science experiment?
4) Can you tell me how you played subtraction bowling?  Maybe you can show me how you played at home?

5) Can you show me how you tap out words? Can you tap out sat, sip, had, lit for me?

We hope you enjoy the photos below from our Fire Safety Day!

Pigeon Party and Updates

Some things we did this past week:

• Practiced solving tricky words by having good reading habits
• Made our small moments writing folders
• Worked on iReady during math and finished the initial assessment
• Built our boats

Some things to ask your child to promote school talk:

• Can you tell me about Stretchy the Snake?
• Who is Eagle Eyes?
• Who is Lips the Fish?
• Can you tell me a few facts/equations that equal 10?
• Count by 5's.  Now try it from the number 45, then 75, etc.
• What's the best way to add two numbers together?

Important Dates:

• FIELD TRIP to Coppal House Farm October 17th-AM only
• Please pack a snack and drink from home
• First Grade Fall Festival will be on October 31st: If you would like to volunteer to help us from  9-11:40, that would be great! Please send me an email to let me know.  

We had so much fun reading our Pigeon stories.  We hope you enjoyed having your child read their story to you.  We all had a chance to read our story to our classmates.  The students' reading voices really brought their books to life!

As part of a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) activity the students worked with a partner to build either Goldilocks' Bed or Bear's bed.  We read a few versions of the original story Goldilocks and the Three Bears.  Here is a photo of their designs.