Happy Friday and 100th day of school!!! First of all, I want to thank you for talking with your children about the choices they were making for their learning the past couple of days. It really made a difference and I know that they are refocused and ready to continue the great learning that they've been doing all along.
Next Friday will be our Valentine celebration. As mentioned in last week's blog, we will be hard at work making hand-made Valentines for each other all next week. There will be no need to purchase any at the store so buy yourself a yummy treat with that money:) The Valentine boxes are coming in. Your child will need a box or bag in which to hold all of the Valentine messages from his/her friends. I've been doing this project with my first graders for several years and one of my past students reminded me of one of the messages that was written by her peer. It went like this -- "I like you because your breath smells like meatloaf." This still makes me chuckle but it was so heartfelt and meant in the kindest way.
I also wanted to share two quick quotes by one of the first graders this week. We have been working on making meaningful connections to the texts that I'm reading each day. While reading about the legend of the groundhog, one of the students spoke up and said, "A legend is where truth begins but then imagination takes over." I stopped everything and wrote that down! Wow!! Later, as I was reading Willa Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and we were at the part with Veruca Salt, this same child said, "I would rather my child to grow up with good character than to have a golden ticket." Again...WOW!! You are all doing a fabulous job of raising wonderful children!
The children are excited to share their learning from this week. Please take a look!
Related Arts for Next Week:
Monday - Music
Tuesday - Library (remember book-in-a-bag)
Wednesday - P.E. (remember tennis shoes)
Thursday - Art
Friday - Music
Conferences are on the 11th and 17th. If you have forgotten your time, please let me know and I will remind you.
The whole class put ice cream cones to see which one they liked the most which was chocolate. Vanilla had the least. We are showing our data which is information. In math, we are learning how to collect data and make graphs and charts. It was lots of fun!
This is our question chart for questions after we make the graph. We made this chart so we could write the five questions on the back of our papers. Questions #8 and #9 are a little trickier. We can teach you about questions #8 and #9 at home.
It was Groundhog's Day and we made a picture where Buckeye Chuck saw his shadow. Punxatawny Phil didn't see his shadow but Buckeye Chuck did.
We were learning about penguins and how they stay warm. We were dipping one of our fingers in Vaseline and putting the other one in a blubber glove and we were seeing which one stayed warmer. The one in the blubber glove stayed warmer. A penguin's feathers don't get wet because of the oil on their feathers. This was like the Vaseline on our finger.
This was our graphing poster of Favorite Animals. It took three days to do it.
She is graphing about favorite treats. She is making a circle graph and a bar graph.
This is when he was sharing his science project. This page is about cells. Worms have one thousand cells.
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