Hello Spectacular First Graders and Super First Grade Families!
Reminders:
1. Conferences are next week. Please return your conference sheet to me by Thursday, September 30.
2. We have early outs Tuesday - Friday, October 5 - 8, for conferences.
This week we are doing a science/social studies unit on Johnny Appleseed and the life cycle of an apple tree. We had a fun day learning about Johnny Appleseed and why he is important! For guided reading, we learned about Johnny Appleseed's life and how he helped bring apple trees to many states in our country. Kids - can you remember the states where Johnny Appleseed planted his trees? Can you remember the abbreviations for each state? After we read about Johnny Appleseed, we got to have our very own apple tasting! We tasted Red Delicious, Granny Smith and Fuji. Thank you so much for all the apple donations! The kids had so much fun with the tasting. After we tasted our apples, we made an "I Like Apples" book. Each child wrote his/her favorite kind of apple and decorated a picture for his/her page. Once the book is finished, it will go in the Bee Quiet Corner so everyone can enjoy it!
The kids loved centers today! The centers for the week include:
1. Arts and Crafts: Apple Masks - The kids created apple tree masks for summer and fall. The summer masks have leaves and the fall masks have apples. They got to be creative with their coloring and they even learned how to do some tricky cutting!
2. Science: Apple Painting - The kids had to guess how to cut an apple to get the seeds to make a star. They watched as the apples were cut to see if their guesses were correct. After the apples were cut, they painted apple pictures.
3. Writing: Apple Person - The kids got to make an apple person! They colored and cut an apple and attached strips of paper for arms and legs. They wrote facts about apples on the arms and legs. These turned out so great! They are hanging up in the room!
4. Arts and Crafts: Apple Masks - The kids created apple tree masks for spring and winter. The spring masks have flowers and the winter masks have bare tree branches.
5. Reading: Kids read from their leveled books in the Bee Quiet Corner.
We do not have new spelling words this week. Since it is the week before report cards, we will be doing a lot of testing in all subjects, including spelling. The children will take a test each day on spelling words we have already practiced. These tests will be used to have the most up to date scores for their report cards.
We did two different math activities and the kids enjoyed both of them! In math we made an apple tree glyph. They turned out so cute! Kids - can you remember what kind of data our apple tree glyphs gave us? Kids - look around the room tomorrow when you come in. Can you be the first to spy the new glyphs? We continued our work in chapter 2 and we learned different ways to make 7 and 8. The kids are doing a very nice job with this and they really understand how to write addition sentences! Way to go, 1st grade mathematicians!
In computer today we did more work on Raz - Kids. The kids are learning how to be responsible computer users and log in, read books and take quizzes independently. If you'd like to see what we did in computers today, please click on the link directly below this one, "Computers, 9/27."
Have an A+ week!
Mrs. Johnston
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