📣 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: In this week's story, we learned about the treasure, the secret that the canaries have been dying of curiosity about. Elmer, the dragon and the canaries had their farewell celebration. The duo finally reached Elmer's home in Nevergreen City. Then we started book 3, The Dragons of Blueland. Will the dragon make it safely home to see his family?
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.
It sounds to him like her mother's voice
Singing in Paradise!
He needs must think of her once more,
How in the grave she lies;
And with his hard, rough hand he wipes
A tear out of his eyes.
Math: We continued to learn about shapes, and partitioning it into halves and fourths. We will wrap up this unit next week and have a test on Friday.
History: In this week's study of the Western Exploration, we learned more about Lewis and Clark, and Sacagawea, the Shoshone woman who accompanied them in their expedition.
Science: This week, we learned about the rotation and revolution of the earth. Because Earth Day is next Monday, we also talked about what we can do to protect the earth. Scholars completed a worksheet on things to Recycle/Not Recycle.
Happy weekend!
1st Grade Teachers