Happy Autumnal Equinox room 9 families. I am so happy that the cooler weather is here. Please make sure that your child dresses appropriately for our fun Flagstaff fall weather. This might mean longer pants and a small jacket for the morning time. Layers might be a good idea, as well as closed toe shoes. It is a difficult time to try and dress for our daily fluctuating temperatures for sure. I myself would rather be in pj's and barefoot! Anyway, here is what we have happening this week...
Math: This week is all about understanding the equal sign and the commutative property of addition (which, in first grade, we call the flip flop property as well). This simply means that we understand that it does not matter which order our addends are in as long as they are they same (ex: 3+2 = 2+3).
ELA: We are beginning Unit 2 of our NatGeo curriculum, so the next four weeks our stories will be about plants and what is living vs. non living. In grammar we will be incorporating plants with a strategy called four picture story frame. Every day the students will have a new picture about the plant lifecycle and they will use their parts of speech to create a sentence about the picture. By the end of the week they will have a paragraph about the lifecycle of a plant. In spelling we are working on qu, y, and short u.
Science: Tying in with our ELA, we will begin our plant unit. We will ask "What happens to seeds in moist soil?" and then record our hypothesis. After that we finally get to plant and observe. We will also start to look at how seeds travel.
Marshall Gallop: Friday is our big gallop day! That's right, we run on Friday! The theme this year is Lunar Launch. We are going to be the Shaw's Shooting Stars. We run from 9:30-9:50, and all are welcome to come join. Please make sure your child has a water bottle for the day! After your child runs their laps we will send home the amount of laps they ran so that you may collect from those who have pledged money per lap. It is perfectly fine to still be collecting flat rates at this point as well. Pledge packets are not due back until October 4th, I believe. The Gallop is not the day we collect these, it is only our day to run and determine laps for those who have chosen to pay per lap. Please remember that this is our only fundraiser of the year and that all money goes directly back to Marshall PTO. Just like this year, their plans for next year is to use the money from this fundraiser to pay for EVERY students back to school supplies at the beginning of next year! I know this saves our families and staff so much money out of pocket at the beginning of the year, and this is so unheard of in a public school! Let's help our PTO continue to be able to make this a possibility for our families and go collect those pledges!
Illness Guidelines: Cold and flu season is upon us, and room 9 seems to have taken a hit. We have a large number of sick kiddos. Just wanted to put out a friendly reminder of when to keep your child home so that we do not continue to spread this around. In order to be at school your child must be 24 hours fever free off of medicine. They must be 24 hours from their last bout of vomit and/or diarrhea. If they are not, please keep them home. Please help our littles learn to cough into their elbows and not into the air. Please help our first graders learn to blow their noses and promptly throw away the Kleenex, not leave it on tables or floors. They are still getting the hang of these things, but we need to work together on reminding them so that we may all stay healthy. Thank you!
Parent/Teacher Conferences: Parent/Teacher Conferences are Monday, October 7th-Wednesday, October 9th. I will be sending home a paper Conference sign up sheet by Wednesday at the latest. Please choose 2-3 spots that would work best for you and return ASAP. Please indicate 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choice. I will comprise a final conference list from this. I have found that this is the best way to accommodate everyone's schedules and most will end up with their first or second choices. It will be first com first serve, so returning it in the agenda as fast as possible is a good idea. These will also be early release days, however those times have not been given to me yet. Historically Monday and Tuesday have been 12:25 release and Wednesday has been an 11:10 release. I feel like this will be a safe bet that these will be the same this year, but I will keep you up to date when I know for sure. I look forward to conferencing with everyone!
Ancient Mesopotamia Taste Testing: Thank you for everyone who signed up for food for our taste testing on Friday. This was such a fun activity. After we wrote the name of our food we tasted it. Then we circled thumbs up or down depending on if we liked the taste of it or not. Then in the middle we wrote an adjective for the way our food tasted. It was so much fun watching them try things like goat cheese and dates and figs. It was also surprising who liked what. I was also impressed with how everyone tried everything, I did not have a single protester this year! Here are some pictures from Friday.
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