The Week of November 12

Upcoming Events

Meet the Authors Writing Celebration
Nov. 20 @ 12:00

Thanksgiving Break/ No School

Nov. 21-23

Trimester I Report Cards go home

November 30th  

International Festival Field Trip

November 30th 

We still need a few more chaperones to help on our field trip. Please return your chaperone sign-up form to school if you are interested. Thank you!

Waterville Thanksgiving Luncheon 

We had a great feast on Thursday! Thank you to all the families who attended. Ms. Stephanie did an amazing job!! 

Writers' Workshop

This week we were busy editing, revising and PUBLISHING our small moments pieces. Students visited Marcelino Editing & Publishing office. We worked together to fix up their pieces. Students then rewrote their final drafts, added detailed illustrations and more. Please join us on Tuesday to meet the authors! 

Math 

In math the first graders learned two new math stations that helped us practice different strategies when adding and subtracting. We continued to work on telling time to the hour on digital and analog clocks. Students finished up unit 2 and took a short assessment.

Science

In science we are wrapping up our Light unit of study. Because students were still not sure if we need light to see or not, we did another investigation. Students brainstormed a place in the school where we could investigate this further. Small groups of kids investigated what they could see in our bathroom when the door was open, closed and when the we blocked off all of the light. We finally came to consensus... light helps us to see. On Monday we will engineer ways to help communicate using light signals. When we return from Thanksgiving break, we will begin a short social studies unit on cultures around the world.