📣 ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Students need to bring a water bottle with name on a daily basis for proper hydration!
- Please make sure they have utensils in their lunchboxes, if needed.
- Reminder about lunch drinks - please no glass bottles, soda cans, Kool-Aid, or fountain drinks. Thank you.
Thank you to our parent reading volunteers! We still have slots for the month. We need volunteers every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from 11:10-11:45. Check your teacher's page below for the reading volunteer signup.
Mrs. Aguayo
Mrs. Santiago
Ms. Baines
💡WHAT WE ARE LEARNING THIS WEEK
Reading / Literature: This week in the second book, we learned about Flute, the canary, and why the rest of the canaries were dying of curiosity. Scholars continued to learn understanding vocabulary words in a context, predicting outcomes, and writing summaries.
Poetry:
The Village Blacksmith
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Under a spreading chestnut-tree
The village smithy stands;
The smith, a mighty man is he,
With large and sinewy hands,
And the muscles of his brawny arms
Are strong as iron bands.
His hair is crisp, and black, and long;
His face is like the tan;
His brow is wet with honest sweat,
He earns whate'er he can,
And looks the whole world in the face,
For he owes not any man.
Week in, week out, from morn till night,
You can hear his bellows blow;
You can hear him swing his heavy sledge,
With measured beat and slow,
Like a sexton ringing the village bell,
When the evening sun is low.
And children coming home from school
Look in at the open door;
They love to see the flaming forge,
And hear the bellows roar,
And catch the burning sparks that fly
Like chaff from a threshing-floor.
He goes on Sunday to the church,
And sits among his boys;
He hears the parson pray and preach,
He hears his daughter's voice
Singing in the village choir,
And it makes his heart rejoice.
Math: This week, students learned to identify the different 2D and 3D shapes, describe their
vertices and sides, and combine shapes together to form other shapes.
History: We started our new unit on West Exploration. Students learned about the trailblazer, Daniel Boone, who helped make a path through the Appalachian Mountains to explore the west. We also learned about the flatboat which the Americans then used to travel along the Mississippi River to New Orleans. We are working on a lap book project to collect all the activities we are doing in this unit.
Science: This week, we started our last Science unit in first grade on space as well. We made a vocabulary foldable about the words we will encounter in this unit. Students made astronaut helmets and learned all about the different layers of the sun.
Happy weekend! Thank you for your continued support!
1st Grade Teachers