Hello Awesome First Graders and Amazing First Grade Families!
Welcome back! I hope everyone had a wonderful and relaxing Thanksgiving break! Parents - I hope you enjoyed your child's Thanksgiving decorations!
This week and for the rest of December, we will study holidays for social studies. This week we began a social studies unit on Kwanzaa and Hanukkah. Today we learned about the celebrations, traditions, and symbols of Kwanzaa. The children wrote about their favorite family holiday tradition. Tomorrow we will learn about a special Kwanzaa symbol, the mkeka (a placemat) and the children will write Kwanzaa facts and create their own mkekas. On Wednesday we will learn about how some holidays share similar symbols and transition to our Hanukkah study. The children will create a menorah. On Thursday and Friday, we will learn about the history and symbols of Hanukkah and the children will write a Hanukkah fact on each of the candles of the menorah.
The children enjoyed our holiday centers today! The centers for the week include:
1. Listening - The children listened to "The Magic Dreidels," and they wrote about their favorite part of the story. After they wrote they created their own dreidel.
2. Science - The children enjoyed making their own butter last week and this week they got to do even more! The children followed a recipe to make their own potato latkes! The children measured, mixed and shaped the pancakes and the parent helper cooked it so they could try it.
3. Writing - The children practiced writing an acrostic poem with the word Hanukkah. This was a challenging activity and the kids did a great job!
4. Math - The children followed directions to play a dreidel counting game. This was a lot of fun for the kids!
5. Reading - The children read 1:1 with me.
We created a gingerbread glyph in math today. We collected data in a new way today; we worked collaboratively as a whole class to collect our data and record it in the form of a bar graph. This was a challenging activity and the kids did well!
We began chapter 10 in math. This is a very challenging chapter and it focuses on greater than, less than and equals. The children made greater than and less than signs with pipe cleaners and practiced comparing numbers with their pipe cleaners. The kids will bring home some additional homework to help reinforce this difficult concept.
The kids had a fun time in computers today! If you'd like to see what we did, click on the post directly below this one, "Computers, 11/29."
Have an A+ week!
Mrs. Johnston
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I learned that a tree is a symbol of Christmas.
I want to know were Santa lives.
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I know that Christmas is a good holiday that lots of people do celebrate. I also know that Christmas is a very helping thing to poor people because it means that they get donations that help them live a little longer time and they think it is like there Christmas present.I think that it is a good thing that Harelson gives donations to poor people. I like that you can help others Mrs.Johnston. I think that you can be like helping others. I would say that poor people are also like my friends to us because it is nice to say come a long and be my friend.Because people that are poor do not have friends because they are poor. People do not care for poor people that is why they do not have friends.
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