Holiday Concert and Party!

Dear Parents,                           

                                                                                                   

Please come watch our amazing first graders singing in the auditorium on Dec.13th at 8:30 am. Students should dress up for their performance. (For girls dresses or skirt and blouses are suggested. For boys, a shirt with collar and pants or bermuda shorts.) Children may change into regular clothes after the class party.

Parents are all invited to attend our class party right after the Concert. Students will be waiting to serve and celebrate the end of the year with you. Your presence is very important. If you cannot attend, please send another family member of friend.

Warm regards,
The First Grade Team 

Curriculum Update: What's Going on in First Grade

Literacy: Students are completing the non-fiction units for reading and writing. In the upcoming weeks students will work on publishing a non-fiction text.

Math: Students are telling time to the quarter-hour and being introduced to place value

Social Studies: Some classes visited the cafeteria and learned about the community workers that help in the cafeteria, what they do and what tools they use.

Science: Some classes are studying parts of a plant and their functions.

Portuguese PLA: Nas últimas semanas de aula, os alunos trabalharão com atividades de leitura a partir da parlenda "1, 2, feijão com arroz". Depois, escolherão uma parlenda ou cantiga para criar uma nova versão que farão parte de um livro da classe.

Portuguese PAL: In PAL, students have been practicing the song Borboleta Pequenina for the Holiday concert and writing Christmas cards for the school staff. They also continue to work on their book of vowels and to read books in Português.

Ms. Keane's Wax Museum Reminder

Dear Parents,

On Friday, December 8 at 10:30AM our classroom will be presenting our Wax Museum. A wax museum is a museum in which they pretend to be wax people. They act as someone else and can only move or talk when a pretend button is pressed. Students have interviewed community workers at the school and will be presenting themselves as a community worker they have researched. They will be discussing which community worker they are, what the job entails, what tools you need for the job, and how this job helps the school community.

Parents and relatives are welcome, as well as siblings. Classes will be coming in and out to see our wax museum, but parents/relatives may stay as long as they wish.

Students asked if they could dress up and bring things from home. I told them this was completely optional and not required, but if you decide to do so please have them dress up before school starts and bring the tools on Thursday.

Optional:

• Dressing up like community workers.
• Please dress up before coming to school
• Tools- Bringing tools from home that their community worker uses.
• Please bring on Thursday, December 7

The students are really quite excited and we hope to see you all there.

Sincerely,

Shannon Keane

Ms. Keane's November Birthdays

We had a lovely time celebrating our November birthdays with Seunghyun and Ana! Happy Birthday Girls!

Ms. Keane's Community Assembly

 Hey All,
Last Friday our kids did a fun PE task showing how they use body movement skills. Check out the pictures below.

Spirit Week!

Monday, December 11

Multi-Color Day.  Can you dress in as many colors as possible? Can you dress like a rainbow?  Let's see you be bright and colorful.

Tuesday, December 12

Dress Like an Athlete Day.  Be a tennis player.  Be a ballerina.  Be a gymnast.  Be a horseback rider.  Be a surfer.  How will you dress like an athlete?

Wednesday, December 13

Party Clothes Day.  Let's all support our PrePrimary and Grade 1 students and wear fancy party clothes in honor of their holiday concert.  Sparkles and ties are welcome.

Thursday, December 14

Crazy Day.  Maybe you want to wear your clothes backwards.  Maybe you want to wear crazy clothes.  Maybe you want to do your hair crazy.  Maybe you want to wear all neon.  Dress crazy.

Friday, December 15

PJ Day.  Wear your comfy pajamas and get ready for comfort all day long.

Learning how to use commas- Ms. Heineberg's students

Today students worked with partners and practiced using commas  in their writing. Mr. Lockhart prepared a fun and challenging activity in which they had to put the words in the correct order and use commas when needed. First graders are using commas while writing their teaching books.