A VERY Short Week!

Happy Monday Fantastic First Grade Families!

This afternoon we had a MYSTERY READER! Bobby's mom came to our classroom to read two books - Let's Eat! and How The Grinch Stole Christmas. A big thank you to Mrs. Vogel for coming!

With our incredibly short week, there will be NO SPELLING THIS WEEK. We will start back up with Spelling after Thanksgiving Break. 

Just a reminder: PLEASE send your child to school with a WINTER COAT. They are outside for twenty straight minutes during recess, so a light jacket/fleece is not enough. Thank you!

What a Week!

Happy Monday Fantastic First Grade Families!

We continue to stay busy busy in Room 16!

We have officially started our new writing unit - informational/teaching books! We have learned that we are ALL experts on something. Many of us are experts on animals, games, or sports! We have also learned HOW to write a teaching book:

It is important we say it across our fingers because we need to know AT LEAST five things about our topic to be considered an expert. If we can only think of two or three things about our topic we have to think of a NEW topic. 

In Math we have begun SUBTRACTION! We know that a subtraction sentence is minuend minus subtrahend equals difference. We also know that the minuend is ALWAYS going to be the biggest number. Just like addition, we will be learning various strategies to help us solve subtraction sentences. Today we learned how to draw a picture and CROSS OUT to help us find the difference. We will also discover the relationship between addition and subtraction (HINT: fact families!)

In your child's Flyer Binder you will find an XTRAMATH flyer. Xtramath is an online fact fluency program. I encourage you to have your first grader use xtramath to practice addition facts. Although we have learned various strategies to help us solve addition sentences, the BEST strategy is to JUST KNOW IT! Xtramath will help with just knowing it!

Thank you to everyone who has donated to our adopt a family program! We have A TON of items in our boxes!

GOOGLE DRIVE!!!

Happy Friday Fantastic First Grade Families!

WOW! Today was a REALLY awesome and VERY jam packed day! 

In Writing we are beginning to wrap up our Small Moment unit. This means we are PUBLISHING OUR STORIES! Each first grader has chosen ONE seed story they love and we have been working hard to revise and edit to make it one of the best stories we've ever written. This means we are checking for capitals and periods, and bringing our stories to life by adding speech bubbles, dialogue, feelings, and actions. We are in the process of typing our stories in a Google Presentation that we will print then illustrate. Each Lindbergh student has their own GMAIL and GOOGLE DRIVE. As we become more familiar with how this awesome technology works, I will send home usernames and passwords so first graders can access their google drive at home! 

This afternoon we met with our fourth grade buddies to plant bulbs in our Concord Garden! 

We also had a MYSTERY READER today! John's mom came to our classroom and read Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. Thank you for coming Mrs. Zoeller! 

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER:

Veteran's Day Assembly - Monday, November 11 - Wear red, white, and blue!

Early Release - Wednesday, November 13