Happy Thanksgiving!

Our class surpassed our goal of 99 food items to donate to the Rowe School food drive!  We collected 112 items, adding to Rowe's grand total of 745 items!

On Tuesday, students decorated our hallway with their completed symmetrical turkey projects!

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving break!

Week 11!

We've been studying Pilgrim families living at Plimoth Plantation this week!  Students have been comparing and contrasting our families with the Pilgrim families from the 1600's.

Check out your child's Seesaw blog for more!

In math we've been measuring everything in sight!

We started a Thanksgiving symmetry project in math on Friday.  Students created symmetrical designs with pattern blocks.  Next week they will turn their designs into symmetrical turkeys!

In writers workshop students have been fancying up their story endings by adding details to make the story come to life.

Thank you for all of the donations to the Rowe School Food Drive!  We are only 11 items away from meeting our class collection goal of 99 items!

10 Weeks in First Grade!

We kicked off our Families: Comparison Through Cultural Traditions unit by learning more about each others' family structures.  Take a peek at your child's Seesaw account to view the family structures we created in class this week.

We completed unit 3 of Everyday Math this week! Unit 4 will focus on:

-measurement

-doubles math facts

-adding three numbers

-place value 

The annual Rowe School food drive begins next week!  The Ice Owls are trying to reach their goal of collecting     non perishable food and personal care items.  Please help out our local families in need by donating if you are able!

Week 9

We finished publishing our small moment stories and celebrated with a publishing party with Mrs. Lincoln's class!

Our next writing unit is realistic fiction!

In readers workshop we've been working on strategies to tackle tricky words in our reading.

We were lucky enough to have Chewonki visit our school to teach us more about owls.  They even brought a live screech owl, barred owl, and great horned owl with them!

Ozzy the Screech Owl

Byron the Barred Owl

Olivia the Great Horned Owl