Happy New Year to all 1P Families!

I hope you are all having a fun and relaxing winter vacation!  I want to take a moment to thank all of you for your thoughtful and generous gifts to me!  They were so kind and thoughtful and I was touched by each and every one of them!

I am most appreciative of the support you have all given to me and to our class over the past few months.  It has been a tough go of it for all of the Sheehan school and especially felt in first grade.  As we have navigated this difficult path, as we miss our friend Eddie every day and we will continue this process each day, it has been wonderful to receive so much support and strength from all of our families.  This is a very caring and sensitive group of students and we continue to work together to care about one another and support one another.  Please continue to reach out to me at any time with any concerns or questions.  I continue to thank you for all of your kind words and support each and every day.

My final post of 2017 will be an some pictures to share from two of our favorite December days!

Our Gingerbread House Making Celebration with all of you!

Our Read-In on the last day of school before vacation!

Happy New Year!  What to look forward to early in 2018!!

Writer's Workshop - continuing to work on non-fiction writing with All About Books that teach about something!  Continue to work on sentences and including all the important parts - capital letter at the beginning and for names, spaces between words, and punctuation at the end.

Reader's Workshop - Reading non-fiction texts.  Continuing to work on using reading strategies, reading with fluency or reading smooth and comprehending and retelling what we have read.

Word Work/Fundations - Continue our work with word families and the glued sounds - -all, -am, -an;

Adding the suffix -s to words and understanding a baseword and a suffix; vowels both long and short; learning more trick words; continuing to work on spelling patterns in words.

Math - More work with addition and subtraction and story problems; counting to 120 and place value, focusing especially on tens and ones; working on greater than and less than; and data analysis.

Social Studies - studying symbols of America, as well as continued study of holidays and famous Americans; continued work on communication and problem solving in Open Circle.

Science - Finish up our work on Seasonal Patterns; start our work on patterns in space and studying the moon.

Mrs. P :)

Final Week Before Winter Break

        December has been a busy month in 1P!  Thanks to lots of help from our classroom experts - Julia & Isaac, we have been learning about Hannukah.  We have read several stories, talked about traditions and played the Dreidel game.

        We have also been reading several different versions of The Gingerbread Man and comparing them.  We have been talking about the different elements of the stories and comparing the different characters and endings.  We are very excited to build our gingerbread houses on Wednesday!  Hope to see you there - Wednesday 12/20/17 from 10-11am in 1P!!

         This week, we will be talking about Christmas.  We will read stories and talk about traditions for Christmas!  We will also sing Christmas songs.  

Big News!!  Mrs. P has announced a Read-In for Friday, December 22!!  We are allowed to wear pajamas (but must be dressed warm enough for outdoor recess!!).  We can bring a small blanket, small pillow, small stuffed animal and a few books from home.  These things must fit in our backpack or our winter clothes bag.  We must be able to carry them ourselves.  We will be playing math games in the morning and having our Read- In in the afternoon!!

     This afternoon we had a special activity time with Mrs. Comer.  It was an introduction to Coding, to go along with the national movement - the "Hour of Code" to teach more about Computer Science and Coding.  The students had a mini-lesson with Mrs. Comer and then had to work in small groups.  They had to create a sequence of steps to program the robotic mouse to move across a track they created to get to the cheese.  Check out the pictures and videos below to see what a great job the children did!  Fun and challenging at the same time.  The students will also be coding via some of our iPad games.

    

2nd Week in November

We began to learn about Pilgrims.  We talked, read and learned about Pilgrim life, and what it was like to be a young Pilgrim boy or girl.  We compared ourselves with Pilgrim children to see what was the same and different.  We had a special visit or from Plymouth Plantation

Check out the stations where we could explore different parts of Pilgrim life....

Setting the board or the table as we would say.....

Trying on Pilgrim clothes....

Playing with Pilgrim toys....

And writing our names in Pilgrim letters on slates.....