"Snowflakes are winter's butterflies."
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Hot lunch on Thursdays will now be macaroni and cheese for $3.50.  Please check the school webpage for changes in the lunch menu and prices.  Thank you!

The children should now be wearing their winter uniforms.  For the girls, that is the jumper and the for the boys that is long pants.  All students should be in school shoes each day.  On Tuesdays, the children wear their gym uniforms and sneakers.  Thank you!

Remind is a one-way messaging system that allows the teacher to send school and class reminders in the form of text messages.  In order to join our class, simply download the Remind App and enter the number 81010 and text this message @122019202.  You will recieve a confirmation text once completed.  Please note that this is a one-way messaging system from the teacher to parents.  You will not be able to reply.  Kindly contact the teacher by e-mail or a note in your child's folder.

Unit Four Week One

Essential Question -"What do animals do to survive winter?"
Books - "The Mitten", "Bear Snores On", "Winter Dance", "The Hat", "I Don't Want to Go to Sleep"
Comprehension Skill - Sequence
Word Work -Long a sound spelled ai and ay, blending words with ai and ay and alphabetical order.
Grammar - Generating ideas, writing a descriptive sentence with a capital letter in the beginning and a period at the end.  We will begin to work toward writing three sentences about one topic.

Chapter Five - Measurement and Length

* Chapter Five Math Assessment - Wednesday, January 22.*

In this chapter, the children will use different strategies for measuring as they explore the Essential Question: How can you measure the length of objects? The children will order by length, compare lengths, use same-size length units to measure, estimate and measure, make and use a ruler to measure and measure with an inch ruler. 

Chapter Six - Place Value to 100
In this chapter, we will focus on finding tens and ones in two-digit numbers as we explore the Essential Question: Why is place value important?  The children will use models to better understand the relationships between the place value of the tens digit and the ones digit as they count to 100.

Chapter Three - God Watches Over Everything

In this chapter, the students will learn that God is everywhere, all powerful, all knowing and all good.    We will discuss the idea of creation and learn that to create means "to make from nothing without effort." We will be reading the story of creation (Genesis 1:1-2) and completing a creation project.  

The first grade students will begin a unit called Animals in the Winter.  We will investigate and learn about why some animals hibernate, why some animals migrate and why some animals stay active in the cold winter months.  Each child will research a specific animal and find out all about its body, habitat, food sources and life cycle as well as how this animal survives in the winter.  The children will also spend some time learning the importance of hibernation, migration and staying active during the winter season. 

The children will participate in Mystery Science investigation with Scientist Doug titled Why do bears hibernate?  In this lesson, students will reason about why some animals hibernate and others do not.  They will play a memory card game where they pretend to be bears searching for food.  As they play the game, the students will need to consider how different foods might affect bears as they prepare for their winter hibernation.    

Monday:  Music and Italian                         Thursday:  Art

Tuesday:  Gym                                              Friday:  Technology

Wednesday: Italian