Preparing for Our Writing Celebration

First grade writers have come to the end of their nonfiction unit and are preparing for a big celebration! After working incredibly hard on their animal research and writing, they are doing a couple of final pieces to go with their big project.  

We hope you'll be able to join us this Friday at 8:30 for our big Authors Celebration!

Fact Families

First graders have been learning about the concept of "fact families" this week. When you have a set of three related numbers then you can use them to make four true equations: two addition equations and two subtraction equations. Pretty cool stuff!

RES Spring Fling!!! Friday 3/23/18

Annual RES Spring Fling Friday March 23rd 5:30 - 8:00pm

Parents/Guardians!! Enjoy an evening out while your kids have fun attending the 2nd annual Spring Fling at Richmond Elementary School. There will be dinner/pizza, movement games, dance party, face painting, spring crafts, cup stacking, and makerspace fun. This evening is hosted by the RES PBIS Committee and staff. All proceeds go directly toward our RES Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS).

Please use this form to sign your child up for this fun event.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfdrFGYHAoHs9lp4feHDRHiJUAj_fLZ8HyQQykl4oj3Q1sl4Q/viewform?usp=sf_link

Fraction Flags

To continue on with our journey into the land of fractions, first graders explored halves and fourths with rectangles through making fraction flags! Initially they practiced dividing rectangles into halves and fourths in their workbooks, but then were able to create thier very own Fraction Flag!  

Not as tasty as pizzas, but still pretty fun!  

Pizza Fractions?!

First graders jumped right into their unit on fractions by learning about wholes, halves, and fourths... of a pizza!  Not only did they learn about the fractions, they got to taste them, too!!  

First we learned about this new concept. 

Then we designed our own pizzas on paper plates. 

Next, we created our own real pizzas using our paper plate plans. 

And finally... We got to eat them!!!!

YUM!!!!!  Fractions are delicious!!

W.O.W.

First graders added another "word of the week" (W.O.W.) to their growing collection of words.  The word was 'dependable', which we learned is an important thing to be!  We read Horton Hears A Who and clearly learned what it means to be dependable through Hortons actions in the story. This story also helped kick off our mini author study of Dr. Seuss!

Snow Play Day!

We all enjoyed a perfect day for some extra playing in the snow!  The sun was shining and the snow was perfect for building and sledding!!