Harvest Festival Week

Dear families,

Our school was collecting food for the soup kitchen in our neighborhood. Homeless people and other people who don't have enough food use the soup kitchen. If someone needs food, they can get food from the soup kitchen. Our school is very generous. Just our class collected 56 cans. Here is a picture. We organized the cans into groups of 10. Then we counted 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, then 6 more.

Everybody needs food to eat. That's why we help collect food every year. We call it the Harvest Festival. There was a club to help organize the Harvest Festival and the Penny Harvest. On the day of the Harvest Festival our whole school went outside to sing songs and bring food to the soup kitchen. When our whole school was outside, someone took a photo of all of us from the school's roof! Then, every person carried one can to the church. The soup kitchen smelled like chili, or maybe chicken soup.

Our school is thankful that we have the Harvest Festival every year.

We hope that everyone has a good Thanksgiving!

love,

The First Graders

Our First Family Friday

Dear families,

We had the first family Friday today. We liked it a lot! Thank you for coming to Family Friday, families! We had fun on Family Friday.

Here's a picture of Malcom and James and Jack, Malcom's dad. They are doing the survey for our morning message. 

This is Chento and his mom. They are reading a book about fire fighters. All of our friends like to work with their families.

Here's Michael. He was playing Ladybug Ladybug with Psyence and his dad. It's a rhyming bingo game.

We and our families played games. Here is Juliana playing memory. 

Diego had fun with his mom. She thought Family Friday was the best. They were playing memory games with our word wall words.

This is Yuna and Azul. Yuna's dad and Azul's mom were there helping them play a word sort game, sorting rhyming words.

This is Chloe's dad with Amalia. Amalia is new to the school this year. Chloe's daddy likes our materials and our class. Chloe wishes her mom was there to see how wonderful the class is.

Only some of us are in the pictures, but everyone did great today for Family Friday!

love,
The First Graders

Geometry and more!

Dear families,

We started something in our class to help remind people to do the right thing. We have class goals for the week and if we fill up our goal chart, we get a reward that we decided on that week on Friday. If you do what you're supposed to be doing all day, you get snack that day and if it's for the whole week the whole class gets something special, like a longer choice time or a short PBS Kids movie during snack. We're about to have snack right now.

Some people did math at quiet time today. They made posters about shapes. We're studying about shapes in math. We're working on how to put shapes together in different ways. When mathematician study shapes it's called GEOMETRY.

We are now starting sing alongs in class. We sing "Taxi," "John the Rabbit," and "Wishy Washy Washer Woman."

We love you, families!

From,
The First Graders

Here's what we're up to this week!

Hi families!

Writing Workshop this week was fun because we are writing new books. We made a map of our hearts, or our brains, to write down memories of stories that happened to us in our lives. Then, we picked one story and split it into four parts. We recorded the four parts on paper. It was fun!

We made parachutes this week for science, and took them home. We learned new kinds of words, like AIR RESISTANCE. That means that the air pushes the parachute up and the parachute tries to push the air down. It floated slowly down because of the air resistance. We used paper napkins, string, stickers and a paper clip to make the parachutes. Science is fun!

Goodbye, families!

love, 

The First Graders