We finished our project work!

Dear families,

We did good project work, and Clara is happy with our work. We worked really hard on this social studies and writing project and we hope that you like it!

We finished our project work books. We wrote nonfiction books about our community buildings and the people who work there. Please read our books. We hope you like them! We worked as hard as we could to finish our projects for today, when we had a lot of visitors for Family Friday. Next week we will make copies and everyone can read our books at home, and keep them.

Here is what the whole block area neighborhood looks like:

If you visit the block area neighborhood, try to be careful because we worked so hard on it. Just to remind you, if you knock something over, you have to fix it. Another reminder, our block area is like a real neighborhood!

We love the block area!

Anyone else who wants to come visit to see our block neighborhood and read our books can come before school or after school on Monday.

Bye families!

From,
The First Graders

p.s. Next time we'll show a close up of EVERY building. Stay tuned!

Cooking, Interviews, Buliding and more!

Dear Families,

Today we start Cook Shop! Cook Shop is a progam where we learn to cook and learn about food. Next week we start to be chefs! We'll have Cook Shop one time every week.

Yesterday Auden's mom came because she was showing us how to be nurse. We interviewed her about her job. Bev is putting the blood pressure sleeve on Julia's arm. Auden's mom let us pass her hospital tools around. She showed a stethescope and a pen light.

Julia's not here anymore. Yesterday we gave her cards. It was her last day working at this school. She's working with bigger kids now. Julia, if you're reading this we love you! Have a good time in your new school.

This is how our block are neighborhood looks like today! We have been working on building and writing our nonfiction books this week.

Bye!

From,

the First Graders

Beginning Our Building Project

Dear Families,

The whole class is working on a project to build a neighborhood community in the block area. We thought of buildings that are important to put in our community, and then we chose six. We signed up for which buliding we wanted to build. The groups are restaurant / bakery, library, hospital, school, park and police station. We all have jobs to do in our group, like group monitor, recorder, materials manager and reporter.

We made our blue prints today for our block area nieghborhood. Blue prints are plans on paper you look at so you know what to build. Each person made a blue print, but each group will build one building.

We made rules for the block area: 1) Work together. 2) Take care of the blocks. 3) Clean up the rubble and 4) Be safe. Rubble is left over blocks from your building but that are extra, on the floor.

We just started building our buildings. Here's what it looks like now:

Check our blog next Friday to see what it looks like then!

From,
the First Graders