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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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