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First Grade Connections
December 8th, 2016
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Dear First Grade Families,
Winter is upon us and winter break is sneaking up quickly. The students are immersed in so many exciting projects that our days are full and flying by. We are excited about Winter Concert, Grandparent's Day and our Winter Celebration. We would like to thank everyone for participating in the Adopt-A-Family program. You have certainly made the holidays special for a local family in need.
Sincerely,
Your First Grade Team
Stephanie Hanepen, Lesley Stevens and Vienna Klingele
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What We Have Been Learning
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Writing
Room 7 continues to work on our 'How To' books, revising and editing as we go. The students are using their checklists to independently monitor their progress. They are using non fiction tools like tip boxes, bold words, order words, pictures and labels to teach their readers 'how to'. At the same time they are working on using capital letters and punctuation appropriately.
In Room 8, we are continuing to work on adding details to our personal narratives. Above is a picture of Mia sharing her piece for the class.
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Social Studies
This week we have been mapping Sea Crest School using the key that we created in the classroom. The students are excited about all the new nooks and crannies they have explored at school that they never knew were there.
We also talked about what happens after regular school hours and the students had an opportunity to interview Grover, our custodial manager. We found out so many interesting things about his job here at school. Additionally, we told him how much we appreciate having a clean classroom to learn in each day.
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Science
We have been working on our Scientific drawings of leaves and naming the different properties of leaves. Here is an example of a first graders first draft (left) and second draft (right) with a photo of their leaf. Students have given each other specific feedback about their drafts.
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Math
The students continue to work on subtraction. They have been solving real world subtraction problems and recognizing related addition and subtraction sentences. This week they were introduced to fact families. A fact family are the 3 numbers in a number bond and their addition and subtraction sentences ie, 3+2=5, 2+3=5, 5-2=3 and 5-3=2. The students spent time determining if number sentences involving addition and subtraction are true or false.
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Word Study
This week we explored the sound of short E. We worked on the word families -ed,-eg, -et, -ell. We have been playing games and doing sorting activities.
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Technology and iLab
The students have been working on the iPads with an ap called Poplet. The ap lets you create boxes and connect them together in a web like system. We have been making these webs to demonstrate the interdependence of people at Sea Crest school. We have been talking about how everyone's job has an effect on the others and that there are number of people at school that are necessary for a successful day at school. Below is an example of a Poplet.
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Talking with you child is the best way to support their learning and the following questions will help you get started.
- What does it mean to "Zoom in" when you are writing? (Room 8)
- What does "interdependence" mean?
- Find an object in your house and talk about its properties as a family.
- What is a Key? How is a key helpful when you are looking at maps?
- Tell me a subtraction story!
- What sorts of things can you do during Word Work?
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Optional Homework Packages
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- Thanks to all of you who have already donated to our Annual Fund! Your donation bridges the gap between tuition and the true amount needed to fund our programs. First Grade's parent participation stands at 70%. If you haven’t already taken the opportunity to contribute, please click here to make your gift today.
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Winter Concert / Grandparents & Special Friends Day
Friday, December 16th
Kohrs Family Center
8:30 a.m.
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Please make sure your child
wears a nice black top with jeans or khakis. The girls are welcome to wear black dresses.
Winter hats, or other "rocker" type hats are also welcome.
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First Grade Academic Celebration
Thursday,
January 5th, 2017
8:30 a.m.
Please join us in our classrooms for a celebration of learning.
The students will be showing off their work from the first trimester.
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Our next field trip will be to see the ODC perform the Velveteen Rabbit at the Novellus Theatre in San Francisco on
Friday, December 9th
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Thanks to our Mystery Readers
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John Qaquandah
Parent of Jackson
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Corey Geisler
Parent of Claire
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Gratitude
(By 5th Grade Council)
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