Hello Terrific First Graders and Tremendous First Grade Families!
Homework Information
There are no new spelling words this week. Spelling will resume next week. There will be a modified reading log this week along with some practice math homework. Kids – remember to be responsible and turn in your homework! Normal homework will resume next week.
Thanksgiving Information
We have a short week this week! Our class party is Wednesday, November 23 from 9:00 – 11:00. Parents are welcome to attend! Check the blog on Wednesday for a wrap up of our fun party day!
Pajama Day
This Wednesday, November 23 is pajama day for the whole school! Be sure to wear your pajamas!
We had a wonderful week last week learning all about Thanksgiving. We began work on persuasive writing. The kids wrote from the point of view of a turkey and persuaded the reader not to eat them! The kids really enjoyed writing these persuasive essays and they came out great!
This week is a short week in first grade and there are a lot of exciting Thanksgiving activities planned, including our party on Wednesday! This week we are doing several hands on activities to learn more about Thanksgiving. Today and tomorrow, the kids will go to 3 centers! They LOVED going to 3 centers today! The centers for today and tomorrow include:
1. Thanksgiving Finger Puppets - The kids color pictures of Pilgrims and Indians, cut them out and use them for finger puppets. They are so cute!
2. Turkey Hands - The kids paint their hand prints to make an adorable turkey.
3. I Am Thankful - The kids write a short story about all the things they are thankful for this Thanksgiving.
4. Turkey Counting - The kids make a paper plate turkey. The feathers are numbered and to put them on in the correct order, the kids must count by 10s.
5. Happy Thanksgiving Turkey - The kids make a turkey and attach it to a sign that says Happy Thanksgiving.
6. Movable Turkey - The kids received a picture of a turkey (head, body, feet and feathers) and they colored them and cut them out. The pieces are attached with brads so the turkey can move.
This week in writing we are working on thank you notes and the kids are so good at these! The kids get to choose someone who has helped them recently and write a thank you note. We will also make another class book, "We Are Thankful." We already have several class books (we do one each week to correspond with our current unit of study) and the kids really enjoy reading these.
This week in math we began chapter 10, a challenging chapter about greater than and less than. The children made greater than/less than signs with pipe cleaners to help with this difficult concept. We reviewed the concepts in this chapter and the kids took a test today. Tomorrow we will make a turkey glyph.
Have an A+ week!
Mrs. Johnston
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