Thursday, March 31, 2016

Rice babies!!!

We are so excited about our rice babies! Don't forget that the children are bringing their rice baby to school on Monday, April 11th (the day we get back from Spring Break).

Today your child will receive information for you to help them complete about when they were a baby. Please send these papers back to school when they bring their rice baby on April 11th. 


How to make a rice baby:
1.            Fill one knee high stocking or large sock with rice. The rice baby needs to weigh the same amount as your child did when they were born.
2.          Tie a knot at the end of the knee high to secure that the rice does not fall out.
3.          Dress your baby and make it look like your child. This is where you can be creative and have fun J Feel free to put baby clothes on your baby, wrap your baby in a blanket/cloth, put a pacifier in the baby’s mouth, add a hat, add eyes/mouth/hair, etc!
4.          Please send in a picture of your child as a baby.

5.          Don’t forget your baby needs to weigh what your child weighed when they were born.


* Your child may bring in items such as a bottle, pacifier, blanket, small stroller (doll size), etc. It would be best if you sent these items in a small bag so your child is able to keep up with these things. Each child will be responsible for all of their baby's items :) 

* Friday we will be presenting our rice babies during chapel and reciting a poem. 

It is going to be such a memorable week! 

Monday, March 28, 2016

Week of March 28th

Hi everyone! I hope you had a great Easter weekend. Please read the information below about our first grade class. Thank you!

* Report cards are going home today. I am so pleased with the progress the children are making!

* Show and tell will be on Friday.

* Rice babies are due on April 11th.

* Don't forget to complete the field trip form for our hospital field trip on April 14th.

* Our live caterpillars came today! We will be observing these turn into butterflies over the next few weeks!

* Spring break is next week (April 4-8)

* Last Thursday we met with our book buddies and created towers out of toothpicks and jellybeans. The children had a blast! I posted some pictures from this fun activity. The teams that created the tallest towers got a free homework pass!




















Monday, March 21, 2016

Week of March 21

Hi everyone! Happy Spring! Please read the information below about our first grade class:

1. We will have our spelling word and dictation sentence test on Thursday this week. You will notice we only have nine spelling words and two dictation sentences this week :) Don't forget we will not have school on Friday.

2. We will not test math facts this week. We went ahead and put your child's new math facts list in the binder so that they can have a head start for next week. We will test math facts next Friday.

3. We sent our information about our rice baby project today! Rice babies will be due April 11th. Please do not send rice babies until that day. 

4. Don't forget to complete the field trip form sent from Mrs. Jannellen for our hospital field trip.

5. Our next show and tell will be Friday, April 1st (please note the date change)


Thank you!!! Have a great week!

Thursday, March 17, 2016

Happy St. Patrick's Day


Happy St, Patrick's Day from First Grade! Everyone did SUCH a great job on their leprechaun traps! Unfortunately we were NOT able to catch those tricky leprechauns! In fact, they made a HUGE mess in our classroom AND in our hallway. The classroom desks were all messed up and there were green tiny footprints all over the place! We had a fun time doing lots of St. Patrick's day activities today. At the end of the day we went on a scavenger hunt around the school looking for the leprechaun! We found his pot of gold and he left us some yummy green sherbet! It was such a fun day!!! I attached a lot of pictures for you :) Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!!