Celebration
As a class we earn smiley face stickers when we receive compliments from teachers, substitute teachers, and parent volunteers. We can also earn stickers for great behavior during an assembly or special visitor activity as well as for great partnership or table team work time. We work hard to fill a big star on the back of our classroom wall with 25 stickers.
We have already earned a 25 sticker reward, which was a Franklin video and lollipop treat. Today we earned a 50 sticker reward, which was building our own mini ice cream sundaes. We are now going to keep working toward a 75 sticker reward.
Super Job!
Keep working hard 1st graders!
The first grade classes had the opportunity to visit Lannon Stone Quarry today. Our tour guide was amazing. We talked about the properties of rocks, various machinery that is used to dig, crush, and move the rocks, as well as discussed sand, silt, and pebbles. The tour guide also connected the information about rocks to our real world uses. The children were then able to choose a rock from the quarry to take home. This afternoon, we had the opportunity to write in our Science Journal about our field trip and of course our special rocks. Be on the lookout for your child's rock to come home today.
Hello Parents!
I realized after I posted the Ghostbusters song with our reading strategy words, that I had explained to the children in class about the grammatical errors in the last line, however forgot to mention it in my post to all of you. We talked about how the sentence should really be written; "I am not afraid of any words." We then talked about how the writers of the reading song wanted it to sound similar to that of the real Ghostbusters song. We also talked about the words "watcha" and "gonna" in the same fashion. Thank you for your understanding and hopefully you will have a little fun singing our new reading strategy song at home. It's quite catchy!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Fujinaka
Ghostbusters
Today during our Readers' Workshop, we learned a song to help us remember our Word Detective strategy for the day, when words are tricky look CLOSELY at a word from start to end. It is sung to the tune of Ghostbusters. The children really enjoyed this song today. I am attaching the words to our song below for your singing enjoyment at home.
Readers Look Closely!
Wordbusters
When there's something strange...
as you read your book...
Watcha gonna do?
LOOK closely!
When the word is tough...
read from start to end.
Whatcha gonna do?
LOOK closely!
I ain't afraid of no word!
