100th Day and Dr. Seuss

 Here we all are at age 100.   I'd say we turn out to be a lovely bunch.    We celebrated our 100th day of school last week   We even did some 100 seconds and 100 centimeter math problems with our 3rd grade buddies.

Today we welcomed a new student to our class.  Welcome J.D.!  

We also read The Lorax as an intro to our celebration of Dr. Seuss's Birthday.   

We continue to work on our geometry unit.   Today we worked on creating congruent figures.

Have a wonderful week.

Monday Update

Dear Parents,

Tomorrow morning is our Valentine's Day Party!  All the students are extremely excited for this.   Here's a glimpse of the Valentine holders they made today.

Each student took home a list of everyone's name from our class so they can make their Valentines.

We have begun learning about geometry....today we sorted geometric shapes based on number of sides and corners.

Here is a look at what we have been working on in writing.   Students are welcome to bring any writing they do at home into school and I will give them a chance to share their work.  We had fun learning about Nelah's trip today.

Here are some frist grade writers:
Noah:

 Mandy:

 Franziska

Monday Update

Dear Parents,
Today we worked with warm and cool colors to make our 'cold hands, warm heart' project.

 We also shared our 'heart maps' and did some wonderful writing from our hearts.  It isn't too late to turn in heart maps.  Please make sure to get these in so we can keep them in our writing journals for writing time.

 We have been spending a lot of time working on what writing time looks like and what makes good writing.  Here is an example of one of the things we are learning in class:

Our Valentine's Party is first thing Tuesday the 14th, at 9AM.   Noah and Cam's mom are planning a fun pancake breakfast.   Here is our class list, in case you need it for creating Valentines.  We will be creating mailboxes on Monday, the 14th.

Valentines' Day Class List
AYZLYN
CAMERON                                    
CHRISTIAN                   
DAVID                          
ELENA                
ELLA                    
FRANZISKA                   
GRANT                    
HENRY                    
JACOB                    
JACQULEAN                   
 KELLIE               
 MADELYN                        
 MANDY                    
NELAH                    

 NIMA 
NOAH                    
ROAN                                                             
THEO     
ZOE 

Report Cards and Heart Maps

Dear Parents,

Your child is bringing home his/her report card today!  They have all worked so hard and deserve huge pats on the back for all their hard 1st grade work they have done.   Mrs. Morissey is looking forward to meeting with each of you at your conference.  At that time, she can also discuss questions or comments you have about your child's report card.

We had another wonderful day today.  We learned about Picasso's Blue Period and his Rose Period.  Then we created tints of red by adding white and painted giant hearts.  Blue was added to make purple.

Your child is also bringing home a Heart Map.   This heart is to be filled out with all the things that are in your child's 'heart' and that they may want to write about at school.  We started this at school today, but I am giving everyone a week to finish it and return it on next Monday.   Here is my example:

Conferences and the start of Spelling

Chinese Dragon Paintings

Dear Parents,

Welcome back from our little snow break! 

Today, we learned all about Chinese New Year. Today was the first day of the year of the Dragon. There are 12 different animals and each year is named after one of those 12 animals. We had fun finding out that we have a class full of roosters and monkeys.

We are busy here at school getting ready for our conferences next week.
Tomorrow, your child will be bringing home a confirmation letter for your conference time.   Please double check your time and return the bottom of the slip back to school.

Conferences will be On Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday (noon release).  Wednesday is our regular 2pm release with no conferences due to teacher meetings.

Today your child brough home a new homework packet.  We are starting our spelling tests this week.    Make sure your child practices spelling as part of their homework each night.  We will have a test on Friday.

For this week, there are no math enVision sheets.