Math Mall Profit Will be Used to Purchase |Blankets for Homeless

After our Math Mall, all first grade classes combined their profits which totaled 1,282,00 Reais! This money was donated to an NGO called Amigos do Sopão, that helps homeless people in São Paulo.
Our very own, Beth Coelho, volunteers by cooking meals there every Saturday!

We are proud to be able to help!


http://www.amigosdosopao.org/

Thrilling Thursday Fun!

Hi Parents,

As we discussed last week we have the schedule for Thrilling Thursday! Check out the activities and timings below. Also remember students can wear pajamas, bring a flash light, bring a sleeping back, and other items that the homeroom teacher may have suggested. We look forward to all the fun.

8:00-8:30           Homeroom set up and morning gathering
8:30-9:00           Dance Party
9:00-10:00         Field Games at the playground
10:00-10:30       Scary Story
10:30-11:00       Campfire Songs
11:00-11:45       Specials
11:45-12:50       Lunch and Recess
12:50-1:30         Homeroom Fun
1:30- 2:20          Specials
2:20-3:00           Continue Homeroom Fun
3:05                   Home Time

Thank you again for your flexibility.

The First Grade Team

Overnight Experience Update

Hi Parents,

Due to unfortunate events that have been occurring in Brazil, the school will be closed on Friday. Therefore, the overnight experience will be modified. Students will still be able to enjoy the same activities, during school hours, that would have occurred this Friday afternoon and evening. 

On Thursday, June 7 students can come to school wearing their pajamas and they can bring items from their "packing list." The schedule of Thursday activities will be posted on the blog early next week. Teachers will ensure that this end of year celebration will be memorable and special for all the first grade students. 

We appreciate your understanding and flexibility. 

The First Grade Team

At Home Work

For those students who are unable to join us at school due to the gasoline shortage, please work on the following websites at home:

READING: RAZkids.com -build your stamina and try to read for at least 30 minutes without stopping. Be sure to answer all the comprehension questions.

MATH: Students can practice their math by checking out these sites below:

 http://www.abcya.com/first_grade_computers.htm#numbers-cat

link to mathletics Logins were sent home in Aug. It's also a free app

SCIENCE: Watch the Brain popjr video about seasons: https://jr.brainpop.com/science/weather/seasons/

www.brainpopjr.com 

Login: graded2   Password: graded

Also students can explore matter by making  Oobleck:

How to make Oobleck Slime
Materials: corn flour, water, food coloring for color, and a big bowl

Instructions:
1. Pour about a 1/4 cup (30g) of corn flour into a bowl
2. Put a drop of food coloring into the water
3. Add about 2 tablespoons (30 mL) of colored water
4. Stir well
5. If mixture is too dry, add more water
6. Play with the Oobleck!

Things to think about:
· What words would you use to describe Oobleck? (its properties)
· How is Oobleck similar to a liquid?
· How is Oobleck similar to a solid?
· Do you think Oobleck is more like a solid or a liquid?

To learn more, check out these websites:
http://weirdsciencekids.com/glurch.html
http://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/phenom/zlime.html
http://sciencecafe.org/content/2008/12/22/how-to-make-oobleck/

WRITING: Students can do a small moment story about how they are spending their day at home. Then they can bring it in and share it with the class. 

Thank you, 

1st Grade Team

Sleepover Update

Hi Parents,

Our overnight experience is almost here. Remember that forms are due this Friday, May 25 so please make sure to send them if you have not done so already. Check out the schedule below of the activities during the sleepover on June 1st. If you have any further questions please contact your homeroom teacher. 

Time	Activity
15:00- 16:00	Recess/Snack
16:00- 17:00	Field Games
17:00- 18:00	Classroom Fun
18:00- 19:00	Dinner
19:00- 20:00	Dance Party
20:00- 21:00	Bon-fire
21:00- 22:00	Bedtime
Next Morning 6:30- 7:15	Wake-up and pack up

Sincerely,

The First Grade Team

Donations

Donations for Casa COTIC

The upper school student have a fundraiser this week and they need our help! Please read the below sign and donate whatever you are able. Thank you!

Curriculum Update: What's Going on in First Grade

Literacy: Students have been working hard on producing their very own series books! In reading students are learning to compare and contrast books they read.

Math: Students continue to work on place value up to one hundred. They will be adding and subtracting 2-digit numbers. Students will work on fractional parts of a whole.

Social Studies: Students are finishing up the unit on "Family" and understanding how families change over time from past to present.

Science: Students will begin a unit on States of Matter. Students will learn about the properties of solids and liquids.

Portuguese PLA: Estamos iniciando a última unidade do ano: um projeto de pesquisa sobre animais brasileiros ameaçados de extinção. Nesta unidade, trabalharemos habilidades de leitura para que os alunos possam "ler para saber mais sobre um assunto" enquanto localizam palavras-chave e informações específicas em textos informativos.

Portuguese PAL: 1st grade PAL students will start studying and researching about animals. They will learn information about size, weight, habitat, what they eat and how many babies they have.

More recyclables needed!!

Thank you for all the bottles and cans brought to us, but we still need a lot of them.
Take a look at what we will do with it!! It will be a lot of fun!

ATIVIDADES SEMANA LITERÁRIA

Semana Literária - Programação

Prezados Pais,

Segue a programação de espetáculos que acontecerão durante a próxima semana, paralelas à Feira de Livro, para cada grade level.

14/05

# 4o ano recebe o poeta Paulo Netho

15/05

# 1o ano com a Cia Circo de Trapo (http://circodetrapo.com.br/ )

# 3o ano recebe a autora Patricia Auerbach

16/05

# 5o ano recebe o autor e ilustrador Laurent Cardon

17/05

# 2o ano recebe os contadores de história da Cia Clara Rosa

18/05

# Ed. Infantil recebe o grupo Malas Portam (http://www.malasportam.com.br/ )

# 1o ano conversa com a autora Martha Bevilacqua sobre o livro "Amazônia"

# Assembly de premiação Vivas Palavras 2018 - somente para 3rd, 4th e 5th grades.

Curriculum Update: Whats Going on in First Grade

Literacy: Students are continuing to bring characters to life in both reading and writing. During reading, this entails reading with lots of fluency and expression. In writing, this includes adding actions and speech to their characters. If you have not done so already, please send in a cereal box for your child to use to hold their series books.

Math: Students continue to work on the understanding of place value up to one hundred. They are exploring the idea that fractional parts of a whole must be equal and will identify shapes as divided into halves, thirds, and fourths.

Social Studies: Students are finishing learning about family traditions and beginning to learn how things change overtime with a specific focus on the vocabulary of past, present, and future.

Portuguese PLA: Os alunos continuam escrevendo suas aventuras em série, enquanto trabalham com os elementos da narrativa. Depois de criar um personagem e descrevê-lo com detalhes, estão fazendo o mesmo para o lugar onde cada história acontece. Além disso, criam problemas que os personagens vão enfrentar e desenvolvem soluções criativas para eles.

Portuguese PAL: Students in PAL continue working with the letters of the alphabet in Portuguese. Next week, we will start “Diário de Leitura”. We will read a book in class and each day, a student will take the book home and draw their favorite part. On the following day, they will share their work with the class and another student will take the book home.

Important Updates

Upcoming this Month is the First Grade Math Mall! On May 25 students will be selling items in their classroom. It is a showcase of their learning of money. They will be adding and subtracting to make change. More information will be sent by your homeroom teacher so please keep an eye out!

Our overnight experience will be happening June 1st and information along with a permission slip will be sent to you on Monday. When you receive the form please keep the first page and send back the second page with the emergency contact information. If you have any further questions please email your homeroom teacher. 

Hearty Bowls Event- Girls Scouts

P.E. SLC

Here are some samples of what happened during our SLC!
Thank you all for stopping by.

Curriculum Update: What's Going on in First Grade

Literacy: Students are learning to bring characters to life in both reading and writing. During reading, this entails reading with lots of expression. In writing, this includes adding actions and speech to their characters.

Math: Students continue to work on place value concepts to hundreds. They are solving number stories that involve addition and subtraction and are learning to count up as a strategy for making change.

Social Studies: Students are continuing to learn about families by focusing on the different homes they live in and the different activities they do. This week they will be learning about family traditions and we are looking for your help by working with the students to fill out their family traditions homework sheet.

Portuguese PLA:  Na leitura, lemos livros de diversas séries para observar as características dos personagens, os conflitos das histórias e suas soluções. Na escrita, os alunos já criaram seus personagens e pensaram em problemas e soluções para suas histórias. Na próxima semana, eles começarão a escrever seus livros, com o mesmo personagem em diferentes aventuras.

Portuguese PAL: Students in PAL classes are practicing the alphabet and the correct names of the letters. We have been watching this video and singing this song. In order to acquire more vocabulary, students will be writing lists of foods, toys, animals, school supplies and fruits in alphabetical order.
They will also celebrate their Não Confunda books, reading their rhymes to their friends.

Save the Date: Ms. Heineberg's final Learning Community Assembly!

Dear Parents,

Our last Learning Community B Assembly will take place on May 4th, at 8;10, in the auditorium. Students will present their Family Portraits on the screen and say why their family is special to them.

News from Our Librarian!

Reading Here and There and EVERYWHERE! 

Did you know that you can read online books (and magazines) through our library on any device? All can be accessed from our website OR you can download the Destiny Discover app. Choose Graded Lower School from the locations. You can browse as a guest to check if we have a book in our collection or to get the login information for online resources like World Book for Kids and Culturegrams. You can also login with your parent account to access additional resources, to check out eBooks, to see when your books are due, etc. Stop by the library if you'd like to know more about what's available. 

I've also been sharing a great resource called TumbleBooks with students. They are excited to try it at home. Tumblebooks has over 1100 books, and our subscription allows families to read them anywhere. Some are eBooks that the students will read to themselves, and some are read-alongs that highlight the text while it's being read to them. This is a great way to increase fluency. There is a TumbleBooks app available in the AppStore, and you can log in with username: graded, password: books.

We Need Cereal Boxes!

First graders are beginning the final units for Reader’s and Writer’s workshops. Students will focus on character traits and characteristics during reading. During writing students will begin developing their own characters they will use in a series of stories. These are two very exciting units! As students are beginning their series units we will be collecting cereal boxes to make a box set. Our hope is it will look a little like the picture below.

Curriculum Update: What's Going on in First Grade

Literacy: First graders are beginning the final units for Reader’s and Writer’s workshops. Students will focus on character traits and characteristics during reading. During writing students will begin developing their own characters they will use in a series of stories. These are two very exciting units! As students are beginning their series units we will be collecting cereal boxes to make a box set. Our hope is it will look a little like the picture below.

Math: In our upcoming unit, students will learn about 2D and 3D shapes in our Geometry unit.

Social Studies: Students learned about groups they belonged to and the focus is on families and learning about the family members.

Portuguese PLA:  Nas aulas de Português também trabalharemos com a escrita de uma série de livros com o mesmo personagem. Nesta unidade, exploraremos as características de um personagem e leremos os livros da série Bibi, de Alejandro Rosas, para termos ideias para escrever os nossos livros.

Portuguese PAL: Students are excited writing pages for their Não Confunda book. They will continue working on it and they will also read more books in order to find and learn more rhymes and apply them to their books.

Curriculum Update: What's going on in First Grade

Literacy: In the upcoming writing unit students will be writing realistic fiction using characters in a series of books. In Reader’s Workshop students will investigating characters.

Math: In math the students will be increasing their fact power through function machines, name-collection boxes, fact families, and fact triangles. They will be introduced to centimeters, reviewing telling time and adding coins.

Social Studies: Students have finished up the unit on School Community. Now we will begin our last social studies unit on Family. They will be learning about their own family and other students families along with similarities and differences.

Portuguese PLA: Os alunos estão no processo de finalização, revisão e edição de seus livros de rimas divertidas. Em breve, vocês poderão ver o resultado. Depois, iniciaremos uma unidade de leitura e escrita de histórias de um personagem em uma série de livros.

Portuguese PAL: Students will be working on their book of rhymes, “Não Confunda”. They will be creating new and fun rhymes. We will also sing Easter songs and read books about Easter.

Object for writing

As we finish our new unit on "Writing Reviews" tomorrow (Friday, March 16) the students may bring in an object or picture  to help them write about their favorite or least favorite thing. Having an object or picture allows the students to gather more reasons and details to explain their opinions. Options could be Pokemon cards, LOL dolls, TY stuffed animals, books, shoes, fun socks, movies, jackets, baseball cards, candies, spinners, sea shells, etc. If you have further questions please feel free to contact your teacher. We are excited to see how much they have grown this unit!