Week 21

 Week 21: January 29-February 2

Academic Updates:

• We are learning about all the different sounds the letter a can make including /a/, /ai/, /uh/, /aw/, and /ah/

• In math we will continue our work with adding and subtracting tens

• We will be summarizing fictional text things week using the hint words: somebody wanted but so then

101st Day:

Our 101st Day of First Grade is coming up soon. This is a big day at Lincoln School! For this special day we are requesting that each child bring in one plain white t-shirt. We will need to have them no later than February 5th. Our special day is February 6th. Please check out this list of additional items we could use help with. 

Valentine’s Day:

Valentine’s Day will be here before we know it! We need every student to bring in a box. This could be a shoe box, small-ish Amazon box, or a cereal box. We will have Valentine’s box making parties at 10:45am on February 14. We would love for you to join us! Please bring with you some tape, glue, scissors, and creativity! There are a few items we will need for later in the day. Checkout this link for a list of items we would appreciate your help with and to sign up to join us. Additionally, students are also welcome to bring in Valentine cards from home for their classmates. We ask that if students choose to bring in cards they have one for each classmate. Suggestion: just have your child sign his or her name to the cards. If you’d prefer to address them to students we can provide a list.

Week 20

 

Week 20: January 22-26

What a crazy couple of weeks! We are hoping to finally get back to normal this week!

Noteworthy:

• Ms. Gould’s class will ice skate on Monday!

• Monday is hat day for Firsties!

• Both classes will head to the Planetarium on Friday (previously scheduled for Tuesday but changed due to exam schedule alterations in the middle and high school)

101st Day:

Our 101st Day of First Grade is coming up soon. This is a big day at Lincoln School! For this special day we are requesting that each child bring in one plain white t-shirt. We will need to have them no later than February 5th. Our special day is February 6th. Please check out this list of additional items we could use help with. 

Valentine’s Day:

Valentine’s Day will be here before we know it! We need every student to bring in a box. This could be a shoe box, small-ish Amazon box, or a cereal box. We will have Valentine’s box making parties at 10:45am on February 14. We would love for you to join us! Please bring with you some tape, glue, scissors, and creativity! There are a few items we will need for later in the day. Checkout this link for a list of items we would appreciate your help with. Additionally, students are also welcome to bring in Valentine cards from home for their classmates. We ask that if students choose to bring in cards they have one for each classmate. Suggestion: just have your child sign his or her name to the cards. If you’d prefer to address them to students we can provide a list.

Academic Updates:

• We will finish up the NWEA this week

• We have a number of things to finish up from the last couple of weeks such as more adding and subtracting tens, and word problems with tens.

• We will learn about different types of nouns, summarizing what we read, and spelling commonly misspelled words such as these, those, their, and there.

Week 19

Week 19: January 16-19

Upcoming Events:

Monday January 15: No School for students

Tuesday, January 16: Hat Day! Firsties may wear their favorite hats for the day!

Wednesday, January 17: NO LATE START!

Thursday, January 18: Ice skating for Mrs. Fiesbeck’s class

Friday, January 19: Ice skating for Ms. Gould’s class

From Ms. VonBehren:

Academic Updates

We are working on:

• More inference making 

• Understanding that the two digits of a two-digit number represent amounts of tens and ones

• The /ur/ sound

• Continued work with sounds and vibrations

For skating day, please be sure your Firstie knows their shoe size!

 

Week 18

 Week 18: January 8-12

Welcome Back!

Upcoming Events

• Ice Skating

We are so grateful to our PTO for making it possible for us to take this fun trip! Each class will walk over with a 4th grade class, enjoy some time on the ice, and then walk back to school where the rest of the day will include all of our normal work and activities.

Mrs. Fiesbeck’s class will skate on Thursday, January 18. They will leave school at 9:40. Any parents who would like to join us please meet us at the rink at 9:55. 

Ms. Gould’s class will skate on Friday, January 19. They will leave school at 8:40. Parents, please meet us at 8:55.

• Planetarium Visit

Both classes will take a bus to Upton Middle School on January 23 where we will enjoy our district’s planetarium. Due to space constraints, no parents are allowed on this trip.

Academic Updates

We are working on:

• Making inferences in our reading

• Adding and subtracting multiples of 10

• Representing the base-ten structure of multiples of 10 up to 90 using towers of 10, drawings, numbers, and words

• The long e sound using spelling patterns /ee/ and /ea/

• Various sounds that ea can make in words such as treat, great, and bread

• Understanding sound and vibrations

Week 17

 Week 17: December 18-22

These last few weeks have flown by! Happy Holidays!

Holiday Parties

Our holiday celebrations will be on December 22 at 10:45. Attached is the sign up sheet for materials and volunteers. We look forward to seeing you!

Academics

We will continue with the long a sound this week, work on subtraction within 20, and do some imaginative writing. 

Ask your Firstie

• What is an example of a problem and a solution in a fiction text?

• What is prudence?

• How can I quickly find ten more/ten less than a given number?

Weeks 15 and 16

 Weeks 15 and 16: December 4-15

Snack Reminder and Update

We have two opportunities for snack each day. The expectation is that students bring their own snacks. Up until now we have been providing snacks for anyone who forgot theirs during both daily snacks. Please note that we will continue to provide snacks during morning snack only. It turns out that many of our hungry Firsties have been eating all their snacks from home in the morning and teacher-provided food in the afternoons at a very accelerated, and unsustainable rate. Please let us know if this presents an issue for your family.

Holiday Party

Our holiday celebration will be on December 22 at 10:45. Attached is a sign up sheet for materials and volunteers. 

Winter Gear

Please label your Firstie’s winter gear. They don’t always recognize their belongings and this helps us immensely.

Academic Updates

We are working on:

• Making a ten and using doubles to solve three addend addition problems

• Understanding our basic needs

• Long vowel teams

• How-to writing

• Reading and listening stamina

• Number sense

Ask your Firstie

• What are the elements of fiction?

• What is the plot?

• What is the setting?

• What is integrity?

• What are some examples of punctuation?

• What is something that is luminous?

• What does it mean to be on the fence about something?

SEL updates

Thank you!

We had two lovely books donated to first grade during the book fair that do not have names on them. We would love to thank the purchasers! If you or someone in your family purchased a book during the book fair for one of our classrooms please let us know:)

Week 14

 Week 14: November 27-December 1

We will be very busy during the month of December, but we try very hard to maintain a “business as usual vibe” as much as we can.

This week we will:

• Work on adding and subtracting within 20

• Practice our fluency within 10

• Hone our writing skills with our new hallway project 

• Enjoy Hansel and Gretel in our weekly book club and enjoy some related STEM activities

• Analyze story elements

Ask your Firstie:

• What is whole body listening?

• What do you do if somebody is distracting you at your table during instruction or work time?

• What books do you have in your bin right now?

• What are your new math centers this week?