First grade will have checkpoint testing on December 13^th and 14^th. It will be important that your child is here for this testing. The testing is for Language Arts and Math and will not take long each day. We will complete this testing in the mornings each day.

We will have our High Touch High Tech scientist return on December 15^th to work with us on our study of sound.

Tis the season for learning about explorers and shapes!

Our newest explorers are Lewis and Clark and their travels west. These explorers build on our learning from Thomas Jefferson as he was President during this time and sent Lewis and Clark westward.  We will take our own journey as we study about these two explorers.

Shapes will be our next math unit when we finish money. We will study 2D and 3D shapes. New shape names that your child will be learning about are pentagon, hexagon and 3D shapes sphere, cylinder, cone, cube, rectangular prism. We will find these shapes in everyday things in our world.

We are writing a pattern book for the season – Reindeer, Reindeer What Do You See? - when you’re in the building stop by to read them.

New 50 word lists will go home the beginning of the month and the final words will be sent before the holidays in case you want to work on them during the break.

 

 

Class needs if you are interested in helping: markers, hand soap, paper towel and the treasure box is running very low – I guess that means there have been a lot of trips to the box! Dollar store items are great for the treasure box! 

 

 

Our Winter Holiday Party is Wednesday, December 21st starting at 12:20. If you are interested in helping with this party please email me and I’ll forward your email to Mrs. Judd who is organizing this party for the class.