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Welcome to First Grade!
Mrs. Ryan


Please check back regularly for updated First Grade news!

 

Because parent conferences are very short (fifteen minutes) I would ask you to spend a few minutes before we meet, to think about your child's strengths both socially and academicaly.  It would also be helpful if you could consider a personal/social goal for your child for the year.  At the meeting we will develop a plan for your child's year.

November 7, 2007 we will be going to Landmark School for a production.

November 9, 12, Conferences.

November 21, 22, 23, Thanksgiving break.

November 28, 2007 we will go visit our Landmark partners.  This will be our last get together.  We will participate in activities that they plan for us.  Two of the activities will be playing in their gym and eating lunch in their cafeteria.

For the last two weeks the Landmark students have organized the activities that have taken place in our classroom.  These activities have included creating a school family tree and decorating pillow cases to be used as trick-or treat bags.

We just completed the second investigations unit.  The mathematical focus in Making Shapes and Designing Quilts was on observing, describing, and comparing 2-D shapes and on composing and decomposing 2-D shapes. In this unit we continued to: count sets of objects, find the sum of multiple addends, and explore patterns in numbers.  We are now beginning our third unit in investigations.  This unit, Solving Story Problems, continues to focus on counting and comparing larger quantities and on composing and decomposing numbers into several parts.  Students' work focuses on developing an understanding of the operations and on developing strategies for solving addition and subtraction.

Fire Prevention- We went on to the fire prevention truck.  While there, we investigated how to be safe in our homes.  A strong emphasis this year, as you saw in the handout, was each family having a plan in case of a house fire.  This plan should include an escape route and a meeting place.  One of our goals in First Grade is to have each child know their street address and their phone number.  These are valuable pieces of information for children at this age to know.

Science- A representative from WSWM came to visit our classroom.  We learned about reducing, reusing and recycling.  The children are very committed to doing what they can to recycle. 

We enjoyed our first ELF session.  The theme for this year is Designs of Nature -   This month the activities were related to the topic Spiders and Webs.  We enjoyed a puppet show and a variety of hands on activities.

 


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