Dear Families,
We planted some beans last week. There are five seeds that already sprouted. There are 22 beans we planted, for 22 kids, and we planted them in five pots. They're in a grow lab, which turns on a light for extra hours of the day so the beans get extra light even after it gets dark out.
Today we cut apples and ate them with a special dipping sauce that we made during Cookshop. The dipping sauce was made of plain yogurt, honey and cinnamon. The apples were crunchy, crispy, sweet and sour and the dipping sauce was smooth and sweet!
At Town Meeting we did a great job. We focused on everybody, and all the school came to watch us. We taught the school the song "Mole in the Ground" and sang "Taxi."
Yesterday was a snow day. Yahoo!
love,
The First Graders
Friday, January 28, 2011
Friday, January 21, 2011
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Today we have Cookshop. We are going to plant seeds. One day last week we chopped up a pear and tasted it. We are learning about fruit, the parts of a plant and the five things plants need to grow. Plants need water, sun, soil, air and care.
We are doing harder math asessments now, and hard story problems!
Something else we're doing is we're going to the school library now every two weeks, on Tuesdays.
We had outside recess today!
Bye, moms and dads! See you later. We love you!
The First Graders
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Today we have Cookshop. We are going to plant seeds. One day last week we chopped up a pear and tasted it. We are learning about fruit, the parts of a plant and the five things plants need to grow. Plants need water, sun, soil, air and care.
We are doing harder math asessments now, and hard story problems!
Here is James and Azul doing their story problems, using the rekenrek to help add and subtract.
Something else we're doing is we're going to the school library now every two weeks, on Tuesdays.
We had outside recess today!
Bye, moms and dads! See you later. We love you!
The First Graders
Friday, January 14, 2011
Journal Writing and Cloud Watching
Dear Families,
This week we read a book called Diary of a Worm. We are writing in journals for Writing Workshop. That's why Clara read the book to us. The worm writes in his diary about his life!
We made play thermometers in science this week. We're going to take them home next week. Today we were learning how different clouds look. And their motions. Wind makes clouds move. Clara took us outside today. Then we saw clouds. She taught us that when they're dark and overcast a lot of water can come out as rain. Those are called stratus clouds. Cumulus clouds are fluffy. Cirrus clouds are kind of straight and wispy. Today it was overcast. There were stratus clouds outside. We took the temperature outside. It was 32 degrees. Today Clara also read a book about clouds. She's teaching us about clouds.
Today we finally had outside recess! We couldn't go on the jungle gym because it was all icy and we weren't allowed to go on the snow, but who cares? Recess like this is better than no recess.
Adios, familias!
The First Graders
This week we read a book called Diary of a Worm. We are writing in journals for Writing Workshop. That's why Clara read the book to us. The worm writes in his diary about his life!
We made play thermometers in science this week. We're going to take them home next week. Today we were learning how different clouds look. And their motions. Wind makes clouds move. Clara took us outside today. Then we saw clouds. She taught us that when they're dark and overcast a lot of water can come out as rain. Those are called stratus clouds. Cumulus clouds are fluffy. Cirrus clouds are kind of straight and wispy. Today it was overcast. There were stratus clouds outside. We took the temperature outside. It was 32 degrees. Today Clara also read a book about clouds. She's teaching us about clouds.
Today we finally had outside recess! We couldn't go on the jungle gym because it was all icy and we weren't allowed to go on the snow, but who cares? Recess like this is better than no recess.
Adios, familias!
The First Graders
Friday, January 7, 2011
Rules, Math and Snow again!
Dear Families,
This week we're practicing our class rules again. It's important because we were on vacation for 10 days and we have to remember the rules! Here are our class rules:
We are starting a new study in math. We did subtracting today! We played subtraction games with dice: Five in a Row (like Bingo) and Roll and Record. We played one game then we switched.
We didn't have recess for a long time because there was a blizzard over vacation. The recess yard is all covered in snow and ice. We are really excited to have outside recess next week! Next week we are going to go outside again, but today we couldn't.
Today we had reading buddies. They were being good to us. The fourth graders read story books from their classroom. Then, when they were done we read storybooks from our room.
Right now it's snowing, and snow is even coming down into our classroom from the open window!
Thanks for reading, everyone!
The First Graders
This week we're practicing our class rules again. It's important because we were on vacation for 10 days and we have to remember the rules! Here are our class rules:
We are starting a new study in math. We did subtracting today! We played subtraction games with dice: Five in a Row (like Bingo) and Roll and Record. We played one game then we switched.
We didn't have recess for a long time because there was a blizzard over vacation. The recess yard is all covered in snow and ice. We are really excited to have outside recess next week! Next week we are going to go outside again, but today we couldn't.
Today we had reading buddies. They were being good to us. The fourth graders read story books from their classroom. Then, when they were done we read storybooks from our room.
Right now it's snowing, and snow is even coming down into our classroom from the open window!
Thanks for reading, everyone!
The First Graders
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