Thursday, October 6th, 2016

Greetings, fantastic 1st/2nd parents!!! I hope that this blog finds you well. The little explorers have been working so hard this week! From South America, to spiders, to insects, to bats, they have been learning so much! This next week we will have the theme of pets and specifically comparing their needs to animals of the rainforest! The pumpkin patch was a blast and we are excited for this cozy season of fall! Speaking of cozy, please send your kiddos with coats! Many of you have already done so, thank you! Also, we really need those emergency kits. We have had 5 returned. If you have brought one, thanks so much. If not, please do so as soon as you can. Thank you!!

Coming Up:

Field Trip: Pumpkin Patch, BiZi Farms. Please bring booster seat. We will leave by 8:45, so kiddos need to be on time to take a bathroom break before we leave. Please have students wear Sonshine shirts!

Grandparents Day: Friday, October 14th: 9-11 am. So excited for this event! Here's what we have planned:

9:00: Daily 5 reading activities with grandparents
10:00: recess!
10: 15: activities in class with grandparents
10:45: ice-cream sundae bar!
11:00: give a big hug goodbye, thanks for coming!

Donations Needed:
ice-cream, whipped cream, and ice-cream toppings for our sundae bar
dominoes! If anyone has a set of dominoes they don't mind parting with, we would love to use them in math centers!
Thank you!

Conferences: Thursday, October 27th and Friday, October 28th. Please sign up in Fourier as soon as possible if you have not done so already.

Harvest Fest: Saturday, October 29th, Faith Baptist Church: 6:30 pm


In Bible, we will be studying Miriam and Aaron. We will focus on respecting others. Our verse is:

In math, 1st grade will focus on subtracting all and subtracting zero, vertical subtraction, drawing diagrams, and comparing groups. The 2nd grade students will be learning about skip counting, working on counting by 2's and 5's, identifying patterns, and repeated addition. All groups will be working with hundreds charts, patterns, and skip-counting in their Daily 3 activities (math centers). Please practice counting by ones and tens for first grade, and by fives and 2's for second grade. 

Coming Up in 1st Grade Reading:

Coming Up in 2nd Grade Reading:

Highlights From Our Week:

Sharing how we feel in the morning!:

Journal-Sharing!:

                                                                         

 Daily 5!

Chapel!

Be on the lookout for Pumpkin Patch pics! I'll post them on our blog over the weekend. Thank you!!!

Thursday, September 29th

Hello, wonderful 1st/2nd parents! We have had a very full week! I am so proud of these little explorers! I want to share with you what is coming up and some highlights of our week.

Please mark your calendars:

Friday, Oct. 7th: Field Trip
Friday, October 14th: Grandparents' Day

Our theme this coming week is Insects and Spiders! In math, 1st grade will be working on ways to make 10, true and false statements, and finding missing addends. In 2nd grade math, we will be also be working on finding missing addends, modeling subtraction, and fact families. For vocabulary practice, we will listen to a story about bats and answer comprehension questions. We will also be listening for our key vocabulary (see 2nd grade list) as a whole class. Our continent this month is South America! In Bible, we continue to learn about Moses and we will soon be covering the 10 commandments. Our verse this week:

Coming Up:

1st Grade Reading:

2nd Grade Reading:

                                                         

                                                        Highlights From Our Week: 

We learned more about Australia from someone who has spent time there, Mrs Johnson!!! What a treat it was to hear her talk about her amazing adventures, show us where she traveled on the map, show us a real boomerang, didgeridoo, and a photo of her daughter visiting Uluru rock. And it was a very special treat hearing her and Mrs. Warner play the didgeridoos!