100th Day

Everyone seemed to enjoy our trip to the museum. My group was very lucky to get a marvelous docent for the architectural/garden portion of our study. She was very impressed with our knowledge of the elements of art. Later we spent time exploring 19th century art in good detail. We took time with a suite of Degas' work comparing and contrasting two paintings and then some of his small bronze ballerinas. A special thank you to Mrs. Sterling who accompanied us to the museum and really helped to make our trip go smoothly.

Unit 4 Week 1 Preview

Our new theme for this unit is teamwork. We will begin the unit discussing the advantages of using teamwork and what team members do. This week we will use the spelling rules: 'ai_', and '_ay' to spell the long vowel-a. For comprehension we will learn how to generate questions during reading in order to make predictions. We will discuss comparatives and superlatives and use them to make a small fold out book. Our vocabulary words will be: encourage, friendship, relationship, rely, and suggest. Our sight words will be: across, carry, eight, once, upon, and walked. In grammar we will distinguish between the two verbs: was and were.

In health, we will talk about safety and safe habits.

Additionally, this week all 1st graders will take their reading skills battery for fluency and comprehension.

We will also attempt to get in a math test.

On Wednesday is our field study trip to the Getty Museum. We will be enjoying as well as examining and comparing art for a variety of elements: line, color, texture, shape, and subject matter.

This will be a busy week with Our 1ooth day of school celebration on Thursday.

Hundredth Day of School

We will be celebrating the 100th day of our 1st grade year on Feb. 23rd 2012. Our traditional celebration has been downsized in recent years due to administrative constraints, but we still celebrate with afternoon treat sharing and games to mark the occasion. If you would like to send treats along with your child to share with the class for Thursday afternoon it would be appreciated.