Starfish Gazette-October 28, 2017

Please Mark Your Calendars:

• First Grade Fall Festival is on Tuesday morning. We are looking forward to Lynn Girard, Stephanie Ciccanesi, Danielle Petlick, and Andrea Benson helping us run centers on Tuesday morning.  If you would like to join and volunteer, please send me a quick email.  Fall Festival will start around 9:00.  
• Parent Conferences begin next week. I look forward to meeting with you. I will send out a reminder email with your child's conference time this weekend.
• Early Release on Wednesday at 12:50 pm. (Parent/teacher conferences)
• Early Release on Wednesday, November 8th at 12:50 pm. (Parent/teacher conferences)

Here's just a glimpse on what we've been working on:

• Finished our first Reading Unit-Reader's Build Good Habits.  Celebrated our learning with using Chatter Pix app to share our learning. We are excited to begin our next unit about Nonfiction texts
• Learned about the human skeleton from Mystery Doug
• Played Blind Buddy Sort and Tic Tac Toe during Word Study
• Practiced tapping and spelling words with qu pattern
• Worked on the formation of lowercase e in our handwriting books
• Read about bats in Scholastic News
• mixed our own paint and painted sunsets to tie into our science observations of sunlight
• Read our first chapter read aloud as a class, My Father's Dragon.  We have two chapters to go!
• Continued working on their "Small Moments" books
• Came up with clues about our Halloween Costumes
• Learned how to balance out addition and subtraction equations with the equal sign
• Learned how to determine if a math equation is true or false
• Worked on solving addition and subtraction equations with the number line.  Learned how to draw our own number lines as a tool to solve facts independently

Here are some questions to promote school talk...

1) Who is Mystery Doug?
2) What is the name of your word sorting group?
3) Can you tell me how you played Clap, Snap at morning meeting?

4) Can you tell me about the Chatter Pix app that you used this week?  How did you get your mouth to move?

5) Can you tell me about your STEAM challenge this week?  Did you have to build your structure more than once? Who was your partner?

6) Tell me about your science observations of daylight? What have you noticed so far?