AUCTION QUILT

Kymberly McIntosh is doing an AMAZING job with our class quilt.  She is running into a lot of expense in piecing the quilt together. It would really be wonderful if we, as a class could help her out with the cost of batting, material and the cost of having it quilted by a master quilter from west Salem.  If you are so inclined and would like to help her by contributing a small amount of money, I know that it would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you so much and you may talk to me if you have further questions.  GO FIRST GRADE PIRATES!!


QUILT NAME:  Portraits of Perrydale First Graders
                           Class of 2023

HOMEWORK

The grammar homework will be discussing the capitalization of proper nouns.  We will also continue working on contractions, "Bossy e", and "Sleepy e".

In Math we are grouping things to 10 and adding and subtracting two digit and one digit numbers.  I will also be assessing coin combinations.

SCIENCE FAIRE

I am attaching some ideas that you may wish to use as you begin to think about your science project coming up.  Again, we will be doing one as a class and also I am encouraging each one of the children to do their own.  It's really fun and they will always remember the process they will go through to present his/her project.


Science Process:


Begin with a question
Observe and gain information
Make a prediction
Do an experiment
Tell and write someone what you found out

SPELLING JAN. 23-26

This week our list will contain some review words and some other ones we have used during our writing time.  Please help your child by going to spellingcity.com and playing the games to help solidify the words.  username:  scarey1  password:  mollyd

one, two, three, four, take, taking, of, friend, from, this, by, try, could


Bonus:  twelve, second

SPELLING THIS WEEK! Jan. 17-19

We will have fewer words this week due to the shortened week.  Our test will be on Thursday.

SPELLINGCITY.COM  username: scarey1  password:  mollyd

bake, baking, friend, from, what, could, box, me  BONUS:  number, eleven

LOOKING AHEAD TO MORE DATES TO SAVE

On TUESDAY,  MARCH 20, we will be having a SCIENCE FAIRE at school.  Our class will be doing a project as a class and I would like to encourage any of my students to do a project at home to present at the faire.  Some of you may wish to begin the project now.  Our class will be doing a "Simple Machine" project and all of the projects will need to have the following components:


1.  Begin with a question
2.  Observe and gain information
3.  Make predictions
4.  Do an experiment
5.  Tell and write someone what you found out.


We will have an opportunity to present the projects in class for another REPORT credit.  Please try this and have a blast learning!

SAVE THE DATES!!

We will be having a Math For Families Afternoon on Thursday, February 2 from 3:45 - 5:00 pm.  Please plan on attending in order to become more informed about Singapore Math as well as engage in activities with your child.  We'll have two activity sessions so you can attend multiple classrooms with your children.  3:45 - 4:15 will be an informational session provided by the teachers of the Elementary School and then the breakout activity times are 4:20 - 4:40 and 4:45 - 5:00.  I hope all of you are able to attend and that we can answer any questions you may have.