Dear families,

Science is really fun! At science we had big jars full of water. We had experiments with cups and paper towels inside. First we put the paper towel in the cup. Then we put the cup upside down, and put it straight in the water. Do you think the paper towels got wet? No, they didn't! Because the air in the cup kept the water away. The air pushed the water out of the way. We like these experiments!

We published our books from Writing Workshop. At the back of our books there was a page for "comments for the author" so we read each other's books and wrote comments. Then at the end of the party that we deserved we had a glass of orange juice. We said "cheers!" to celebrate our books.

This is the end of Chloe's book, and this is the end of our blog post for today!

See you later!

From, the First Graders



Today's Letter

Hola familias!

"Hola" means "hi" in Spanish and "familias" means famlilies.

Two weeks ago we started homework. Speaking of homework, today we have math homework.

We started science last week. We're studying about air. We learned we could blow a feather with air, left or right. And the feather goes down and up. We learned that everything around us is matter. The rug, even us! Air is matter too. You can't see it but you can feel it.

Today on Tuesday we got new sensory tools. They are for helping you in the meeting area when you feel like running around, you're tired or fidgety.

We have also been liking reading Halloween books for read alouds.

Adios, familias!

Love,
The First Graders

p.s. Sorry we didn't write on Friday. The SMART board wasn't working.

October 15th: Here's what we did this week!

Dear families, 

This week we signed up for clubs! Clubs are groups with grown ups teaching certain things and kids from all the classes in the school. This year Clara's club is going to be the cooking club. Everyone in our class signs up for a club that they want, and go to the club every Friday afternoon. Clubs start next Friday!

There were a lot of fun math games this week that were really exciting. We like story problems, like figuring out how many cupcakes two people have if you add them together. We also liked learning about tally marks from Melissa. Math is really fun. First grade is really fun!

We went on a neighborhood walk for social studies because we're studying the neighborhood community. We saw lots of things. We did a scavenger hunt. When we saw something that was on our list on a clip board, we made a check mark. We saw some people's houses.

Bye, kids who are reading this with grown ups!

Bye, grown ups!

From,

The First Graders

Read About Our Week!

Dear families,

We learned a new math game this week called 5 in a Row. It's like bingo. You have to add numbers from a pair of dice and cover that number on your game board.

We're doing really good in Reading Workshop. When we start to read we sit back to back in chairs so we read quietly for independent reading.

On Friday, today, we had reading buddies with Stefanie's fourth grade class. We read together.

The meeting area looks like this now. We have a new rainbow carpet and some cubbies are in the closet now. We made these changes so we don't have trouble paying attention in the meeting area and keeping our bodies calm.

We also started classroom jobs, so you can learn how to be nice and take care of the classroom.

See you later, people!

From,
Clara's class

What we did in school

Dear families,

Today we had a visitor named Cecilia. She taught us some sign language, she showed us some dolls, and she taught us how a hearing aid works. She talked to us about people who walk differently, hear differently, talk differently and are blind. She let us feel a McDonald's menu written in brail. That's writing for people who are blind.

We also learned a couple of new sign language signs with our music teacher. Our music teacher, Hubert, taught us the signs for "stand," "sit," and "circle."

Today we had math books.

We're going to have a special snack in a few minutes. We are eating popcorn.

See you later, grownups!

The first graders