Hi Everyone!
I hope all the Starfish mothers had a wonderful Mother's Day. Thank you so much for sharing your children with me everyday. They were so excited to create beautiful and thoughtful Maps of My Mom for you.
Here is the long list of school wide events, as well as dates for our individual class. In my previous post, I put out dates but this provides you an overview of the event on that date. I thought this would be the best way to get them to you so you can prepare for the end of the year and get your calendars marked! As each event gets closer I will post about it in more detail, so make sure to check out our blog often during these last few weeks of school! I can't believe it's this time already.
Wed. May 23rd- Early Release Day: students will be dismissed at 12:50 pm.
Fri. June 1st- PTO 1-2-3 Fun Run: Teachers, parents, and students are welcome to run or walk 1,2, or 3 miles around SMS and Stratham Hill Park at 5:00 pm. Following the run, there will be a BBQ, Dunk Tank, Snow Cones, and a Dance Party!
June 7th: First Grade Mall: This is fun and memorable first grade tradition! This is a great morning for your child to experience working, shopping, counting money, and making change. Your child must bring in one dollar in change (pennies, nickels, and dimes) to go shopping at the various stores. Please bring in your child's mall money by June 5th! In order for our mall to be a success, we need the help of families for donations. Please make sure to check the flyer that came home this week for suggested donation items. We are looking forward to this fun event!
Friday, June 8th- Field Day: It's everyone's favorite day of the year! Students need to wear sneakers and may want to bring a change of clothes. The water games can leave them awfully wet!
Thursday, June 14th- Community Service Day: The first grade has planned three community service centers to tie nicely into our musical, Friendly Neighborhood Helpers. We are going to make thank you cards for people in our community, book marks for our local town library, and make special treats for the animals at S.P.C.A. We will be looking for a few volunteers for our centers. I will send out an email as the date gets closer if you are interested in joining in on the fun!
Mon, June 18th- End of school year photo slideshow and breakfast- all families are invited to join in the last day of school Starfish celebration. Our celebration will begin at 8:45 in our classroom. We will have a photo slideshow to watch all the memories of our days in the Starfish classroom. Please be on the look out for a sign up genius from Mrs. Girard in the next week if you would like to contribute a breakfast treat!
Wed. May 23rd- Early Release Day: students will be dismissed at 12:50 pm.
Fri. June 1st- PTO 1-2-3 Fun Run: Teachers, parents, and students are welcome to run or walk 1,2, or 3 miles around SMS and Stratham Hill Park at 5:00 pm. Following the run, there will be a BBQ, Dunk Tank, Snow Cones, and a Dance Party!
Monday, June 4th- Grand Luncheon: Grandparents and friends of SMS students are invited to join us for our annual Grand Luncheon. First Grade Lunch on this day is scheduled from 11:40-12:15
Friday, June 8th- Field Day: It's everyone's favorite day of the year! Students need to wear sneakers and may want to bring a change of clothes. The water games can leave them awfully wet!
Thursday, June 14th- Community Service Day: The first grade has planned three community service centers to tie nicely into our musical, Friendly Neighborhood Helpers. We are going to make thank you cards for people in our community, book marks for our local town library, and make special treats for the animals at S.P.C.A. We will be looking for a few volunteers for our centers. I will send out an email as the date gets closer if you are interested in joining in on the fun!
Mon, June 18th- End of school year photo slideshow and breakfast- all families are invited to join in the last day of school Starfish celebration. Our celebration will begin at 8:45 in our classroom. We will have a photo slideshow to watch all the memories of our days in the Starfish classroom. Please be on the look out for a sign up genius from Mrs. Girard in the next week if you would like to contribute a breakfast treat!
Here's some pictures to give you a sneak peak into our days at school
What beautiful weather we had for our Wellness Walk this week! In honor of Physical Fitness and Sports Month, the Wellness Committee planned this wonderful event to help promote walking as a fitness activity. It was a great afternoon to get our bodies moving! We enjoyed walking with our buddies as well as several parents and siblings! Thanks to all who were able to join us :)
Learning About our Zones of Regulation:
With the help of Mrs. McIntosh, an OT at SMS, we have been learning about the four zones of regulation. Our emotions are categorized into four colors. We have been learning which emotions allow us to be most ready to learn and be focused at school. There are also emotions such as tired, sick, silly, nervous, worried, angry, etc. that make learning more challenging. Over the next few weeks one of our goals is to learn strategies to move us into green zone. The zone best fit for learning and success!
Learning about attributes of 2D and 3D shapes and fractions:
Here are some of the activities we have done:
- Played I Have Who Has with fractions and shapes
- Explored 3D wooden blocks in our classroom
- Used Venn Diagrams to compare and contrast 2D and 3D shapes
- Played Roll and Cover- a math game identifying everyday 3D objects
- Discussed math vocabulary of shapes, vertices, faces, edges of shapes
Pictures from Friendly Neighborhood Helpers:
Learning About our Zones of Regulation:
With the help of Mrs. McIntosh, an OT at SMS, we have been learning about the four zones of regulation. Our emotions are categorized into four colors. We have been learning which emotions allow us to be most ready to learn and be focused at school. There are also emotions such as tired, sick, silly, nervous, worried, angry, etc. that make learning more challenging. Over the next few weeks one of our goals is to learn strategies to move us into green zone. The zone best fit for learning and success!
Learning about attributes of 2D and 3D shapes and fractions:
Here are some of the activities we have done:
- Played I Have Who Has with fractions and shapes
- Explored 3D wooden blocks in our classroom
- Used Venn Diagrams to compare and contrast 2D and 3D shapes
- Played Roll and Cover- a math game identifying everyday 3D objects
- Discussed math vocabulary of shapes, vertices, faces, edges of shapes
Pictures from Friendly Neighborhood Helpers:
The Friendly Neighborhood Helpers
Quick Picture with Mr. Fosher before getting on stage
Here are the Crossing Guards
Who fights the fires and puts them out?... we do! we do!
We are all dentists.. we love every tooth!
The Storytellers
Clean up on aisle 9!
The Mail Carriers!
We are chefs, chefs, chefs! oOo La La!
The Plumbers!
The Garbage Truck Fans! We Love the Garbage Truck!
The Librarians, Recycle, and Veterinarians!
Reading with our Buddies in the garden
Learning to become series fiction writers
We are so excited to begin our last unit of study for writer's workshop. The kids have been introduced to many series fictional characters during reader's workshop. The Starfish are so excited that it is now their turn to imagine and dream of a fictional main character to write across many books. Early this week we decorated our writing folders with with our main character. We wrote character traits around our drawings. On the back side of our folders, we did simple sketches of ideas for adventures our characters will go. In each book that we write, we will focus on story structure, detail, and dialogue between characters!
It's finally Spring Weather!
Bike/Scooter to School Day
Questions to Promote Home-School Connection:
1. Can you tell me about the 4 zones? What does the blue, green, yellow, and red zone mean?
2. Can you name a 3D Shape? Can you help me find 3D shapes around the house?
3. What's the name of your series character that you are writing about? Can you tell me about him/her?
4. What do you like to do at recess? Who do you usually play with?
5. Can you tell me about the book, Snowball?
6. Who is Ready Freddy? Can you tell me about the chapter book your reading in your class?
7. Tell me tell me a magic e word that you worked on this week?
8. What have you been working on in the Makerspace? Who did you work with to make the cell phone holder?
I hope you had a wonderful weekend!
Megan Murphy
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