See what we're up to this week!

Dear families,

In math we're working on a new unit, measuring. We measured fish! Not real fish, but cards of different sized fish. Three different kinds. We measured the fish in inches, using inch tiles.

Today we went to Sauer Park. Today we had clubs.

We made parachutes for science. And some of them had little holes and they could still float slowly. Some of them had big holes and they fell fast. Air is all around us. The parachute falls slowly because the parachute presses down on air AND the air pushes up on the paracute. We learned a new word, air resistance!

From,
The first graders

Lily, Sam and Justice are here!

Good afternoon, parents!

Lily , Sam and Justice are here for the whole day. And Nellie and Heather!

In Writing Workshop, we are writing our farm animal magazines. We are writing about chickens, bees, cows, pigs, horses, sheep and goats. We've been researching these animals and this week we started to write the magazine articles.

This week has been a very fun week.

Have a good weekend!

From,
Clara, Heather & Nellie's Class

We have some new students!

Hi parents!

We have some news! We will soon have more students, and an extra teacher. Heather is coming to help teach our class every day, and Sam, Lily and Justice are going to be in our class all day from now on. We will find cubbies for them. And we will help them any time they are having a hard time.

This week we had a field trip to the Queens County Farm. We saw goats, a cow, pigs, chickens, roosters, guinea hens, sheep, peacocks, and bees. The farm has a new cow because their very old cow, Daisy, died this year. We learned that a one year old cow is called a heifer. That's before she has a baby. We had fun at the Queens County Farm.

We started clubs today! We had fun in our clubs.

Any time you want, you can write us a note on our blog.
I hope you enjoy our letter! Bye, parents!

love, The First Graders and Clara too