We did lots of things this week. Read all about it!

Hi parents!

This week was an exciting week. We had some celebrations, a farmer's market in our classroom and a dance party. It was also spirit week. Today was dress as your favorite, or make up a character day.

This morning our classroom was transformed into a farmer's market.  It was a lot of hard work to make our classroom into a farmer's market. We pretended to sell wheat, milk, vegetables, fruit and honey that we grew on our farm. The farm stands had samples of real food, and the parents who visited tried things like real honey. It was fun. We also watched a video that our drama teacher, Kelli, made. It showed all of the hard work we did over the last month. Thank you to all the visitors who came today. And thank you, Kelli! We love you so much!

Have a nice day. See you next month, after spring vacation!


From, the First Grade Farmers

Photos from our classroom farmer's market. We had stalls selling bread & wheat, orchard fruits, garden veggies, eggs & honey, and dairy products. We had so many customers visit that we ran out of shopping bags at the information booth!

See what we're doing in class!

Dear parents,

This week we reached a goal our class had. We had a chart. We earned a sticker every day we did a great job for independent reading.

We performed with Kelli at Town Meeting this week. We taught the school our morning wake up song. We taught you how to be farmers. We showed how to collect eggs, plant crops, drive a combine, make flour out of wheat for bread, and harvest honey.

Starting on Monday, it's spirit week. Monday is pajama day!

This week we were busy as bees!

Dear families,

We started a new science study. We're studying air and weather.

Last week we planted real lettuce seeds in flower boxes. This week the lettuce plants are starting to grow! We saw a really long sprout!

In drama this week, we've been pretending we were at the farm.This week we turned into bees! We were talking about bees, and then suddenly we just turned into bees! We had to do work to make honey and get the nectar from the flowers. We turned back into farmers, and learned how to use a smoker to smoke the bee hive! The bees think their house is on fire so they eat all the honey that they can, and they get so sleepy that they fall asleep and don't sting you. You have to put suits on too so they don't sting you.

We also went to the Union Square farmer's market. We saw farmers selling honey. We saw a real smoker, real honey comb and we bought some honey. Check out some photos from our trip!

Parents, we love you!
from,
The First Graders

See what we've been up to in our reading and writing!

Dear parents,

We've been working hard on our reading, to be stronger readers. Some things we've been doing in reading workshop are:

Read slowly, or medium, don't rush.
Make sure to look at the end of words.
After we read a book, retell the story.

We have a goal to read more quietly during independent reading, and to follow our meeting rules all day.

We finally finished our folktales and fairytales one or two weeks ago and this week we had a publishing party. We were supposed to have a publishing party last week, but we had a snow day on Friday. That's also why we didn't write a blog post for you. Thanks for coming to the publishing party this week!

This week we're starting a new writing study. We will be writing nonfiction magazines.

Bye!
From,
The First Graders