Book Fair at RES week of April 4-8

A flyer was recently sent home with your child with information about the upcoming Book Fair. Our class with have the opportunity to shop on Tuesday 4/5 @ 12:30.

Of course, this is optional. I just wanted to let you know in case you would like to send in money with your child to purchase any books on that day.

Also...

Book Fair Volunteers Needed!  

The Scholastic Book Fair will be coming to Richmond Elementary School April 4-8.  To make this a successful event, Mrs. Wood is looking for some volunteers to help out.  Jobs include running the cash register, being a shopping assistant, setting up, and closing up.  All volunteers need the fill out the appropriate forms from the district located here before they can volunteer.  To sign up please click the following link or talk to Mrs. Wood in the Library. 

https://bit.ly/3D85BfG

Adventures from the week of March 21, 2022

Adventures from the week of March 21, 2022

Spring has sprung!  We could feel it in the air and in the energy in our classroom this past week!  Our week was full of fun and learning as usual!! 

Some of the things we did were: 

• Celebrated the beginning of spring with a “Goodbye Winter, Hello Spring” project

• Learned that blends can come at the end of words, too

• Played some fun games to practice ending blends, including a version of Connect Four

• Worked on addition problems with 3 addends, and practiced looking for tens facts or doubles facts to add together first

• Worked on 10 + problems (10+1 - 10+9) and noticed helpful patterns

• Visited the cafeteria and went over expectations and procedures to get ready for our first lunch experience in there next week

• Did a science investigation that focused on the concept of biomimicry - using ideas from nature, specifically trees,  students designed umbrellas that would not get blown over by the wind! They designed various paper umbrellas and tested them out! 

• Had our last health lesson with Nurse Hadley and learned about dental health

• Reviewed how to do partner reading, and learned some new prompts for talking about the text with our partners

 We read this poem and then wrote our own version

visiting the cafeteria!

We are able to do partner reading again!

learning why trees don't typically fall over in the wind

practicing being trees, waving our branches in the wind

Getting ready to design out umbrellas

design time!

testing our designs

Connect Four word work

A Full Week of Learning - Week of March 14, 2022

 

Week of March 14, 2022

Another great week was had in first grade!  It was a week filled with lots of energy and excitement!  A full moon, the time change, no masks, and a holiday to boot, but we made it through successfully and had some fun along the way!

 We:

• Hung our beautifully painted hearts with positive and uplifting messages all over the school entrance area to spread kindness and love to our whole community

• Had a Guidance lesson with Ms. Spaulding and learned about the parts of our bodies that are private

• Had a Health lesson with Nurse Hadley and learned about recess and playground safety, as well as fire safety  

• Continued to practice reading and spelling words with blends at the beginning of them 

• Wrote the conclusion page and started the covers for our animal research books

• Did some fun St. Patrick’s Day activities

• Worked on missing addend story problems in math 

• Played the math game “Five In A Row” using 3 numbers and looked for partners to 10 and/or doubles facts to add first

Health lesson with Nurse Hadley

Working on beginning blends with a fun St. Patrick's Day sort

Searching for gold coins on St. Patrick's Day!

Checking out our loot!

Drawing our animals using the great Kid Art Hub site