Student Reporting from June 3rd

Wow, we have had quite a fun week!


We began by celebrating Memorial Day to honor people who have served our country.

The weather was very nice!

Let’s Pass It On was a musical! It was fun to see so many people in the audience.

As writers, we keep practicing the words in our fancied-up stories.

In Math, we continued splitting things into groups. We started to learn fractions.

In science, we transferred the caterpillars to the butterfly cage. We wonder how long it will take for them to emerge from their cocoons.

Student Reporting by: Paige, Nicole, Olivia, Simone

Student Reporting

Last Friday we were so busy, so we’re reporting today about last week.

In Gym, we have been practicing for field day which happens this Thursday!

The weather has been very, very cold!

In Readers Workshop, we’ve been learning about some different types of poetry.

As writers, we finished revising and editing our hard copy stories.  Then, we started typing our stories so they can look like some of the books we see in bookshelves and libraries!  We thank the moms who helped us get them started typing:  Olivia’s mom, Ben’s mom, Charly’s mom, Nicole’s mom, and Jeremiah’s mom!

In Math, we can count by twos and threes really well.  Then, we started working with equal groups.  Here’s a secret:  Equal groups are really:  multiplication!

In science, we studied the butterfly life cycle. It has 4 stages:

1. eggs

2. larva (caterpillar)

3. pupa (cocoon)

4. butterfly

We started in class with the larva stage because our caterpillars arrived on Friday! We each gave 2 or 3 of them their own little cabin. We feel very excited to see what happens next!

Student Reporting by:  Katelyn, Charly, Jacqueline, Madden, and Mia

STUDENT REPORTING

This week was Conference week.  Mrs. Mc had us work very hard!

We started our All About story books on our own in Writers Workshop.  We feel great about our stories! 

In math, we learned strategies for figuring out math problems.  One that is really tricky is called Fact  Families when you have 3 numbers in a family and can write 2 subtraction facts and 2 addition facts using the same numbers.  Doubling is also helpful.

St. Patrick’s Day made us feel very lucky for many things.  Some of us thought there was a real leprechaun on the playground.  It didn’t play any tricks in the classroom.

The first place winner of the Iditarod dog race in Alaska was John Baker.  This was the first time he was in the race and he broke the fastest record.  He takes good care of his dogs.

Mrs. Mc wants families to be on the lookout for some upcoming dates this spring (field day, musical performance, memory share).  Coming soon!

Student Reporting by Austin, Peter and Jeremiah on Friday afternoon.

STUDENT REPORTING

Wow!  It has been busy in first grade.

We worked really hard on HOW TO stories.  We are experts at lots of stuff.  Now we're starting a new unit on ALL ABOUTs.

In Math, we have been adding Tens and Ones with really big numbers.

We enjoy our Superstars of the week and whoever the Class Pets visit.

In January, most of us had fun playing on the snow days at home.  But some of us wanted the groundhog to predict an early spring!  On the playground, the first graders made some cool creations and enjoyed playing on the big hills.  Some days were so cold that we couldn't even go outside!  It has been quite a winter!

It was cool when High Touch High Tech visited first grade! We studied shadows. We learned that you need three things to make a shadow: some light, an object, and a spot for the shadow to go (a surface).


On the 100th day of school (which turned out to be Wednesday, Feb. 9th) we made marshmallow creations!  We were able to touch some animals from the Darien Nature Center.  We learned a lot about the way animals move.  We had lots of fun on Valentines Day.  We shared valentines and celebrated friendships.

Mrs. Mc wants to remind parents that conference week was changed due to the 5 snow days and will be held one week later.