Friday, January 27, 2012

SCIENCE FAIR - March 20

You aren't going to believe how quickly March 20 will roll around.  Please refer to the attached sheet for information and ideas regarding the event. At this level it should be very simple.  A display board would be helpful for your findings.  On the board you should have the following:
A question
How you observed and got information
A prediction of what you thought would happen
The experiment
What you found out.
We will be doing a class project as well so please consider doing one of your own at home.
DOING SCIENCE HELPS YOU LEARN ABOUT SCIENCE!!!
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/sciencefaircentral/


SPELLING Jan. 30 - Feb. 2

Go spellingcity.com for a collection of games and activities that will help your child gain understanding of the spelling words.  
username:  scarey1  password:  mollyd


little, are, here, have, by, way, from, said, who, what
Bonus:  thirteen, third

Family Math Afternoon: February 2

On Thursday at 3:45 - 5:00 we will be having a Singapore Information event.  Please plan on bringing your child to participate and become informed about Singapore Math.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

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

Friday, January 20, 2012

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