Math Choice Time :)

Students love to make choices when it comes to their learning and in Math it is no different! On Fridays, after our Math Quiz, we will usually have Math Choice Time! This is when students are able to choose from the various math games and activities that have accompanied the lessons from the previous week or two. This last Friday, We reviewed,Copying Cubes, Quick Images,Compare Dots, and Counting Pattern Blocks.

Matter Matters!

Our Amazing Scientists have been observing, sorting, and identifying the phases of Matter! We know that Matter is anything that takes up space. We have explored the 3 phases of matter through the creation of lava lamps and watching water in the three forms, ice, water, and steam. Check out our inquiries!

Journal Entry: What is Matter? Matter is the thing that can take up space like kites and water. All kinds of things take up space. Space is all types of things.

Our Observations Recorded:

Solid: Ice

Liquid: Water

Gas: Steam

We love comments! We love Open House!

Thank you to all of our families that attended our Open House! It was so wonderful to be able to share our day with you! We are starting to receive your comments and our kids love it! Thank you for supporting our Symphony of Learning Success!

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Presidential Address

The students that participated in viewing this address had a few things
to say.. Check out what they learned:
-We need to stay in school.
- If you are sick you should stay at home to stay safe.
-It is important to do all your homework.
-Never quit.
-If you do your homework,you will get smarter.
-Listen to the teacher
-Put your things away
-Learning is our job

September Book of the Month

Get Well Ms. Correia! We miss you!

Ms. Correia has been out with the flu as many of us have been last week. We decided to create this video to bring her some cheer and show off our Sunshine Band style! We can't wait to have her back and show her in person :D!

Double the Fun.. Double Compare!

Today, we ended our Math Diagnostic and began our journey together in Number Sense with the game of Double Compare! Double Compare is a game to help increase student strategies when comparing amounts. Students are paired and given a deck of cards. The students split their deck of cards as if they were going to play the card game, "War". "One for you, one for me" we say :).

The students will each turn over two cards at the same time. Each student will total their own two cards and compare the total with their partner's. The student with the greater total, "wins"! Our First Graders were all winners today with this game. They worked quietly with their partners and even tried out the strategy, "Count On". Look for this game in your student's Communication Folder for extra homework. Your student will be happy to teach you how to play :)!

We are Super Scientists!

Learning about the world around us is our super power.......

We are the Super Scientists!
First Graders are not just going to sit back and leave all the discovery to grownups. We found out that we can be Scientists right now! We can use the tools that we already have (Our Five Senses) to observe and discover the world around us!

After going on our Science Field Trip ,(A Nature Walk) to the trail behind our playground, we made some amazing discoveries about objects. We each chose a single object to bring back to our classroom for futher observation. With the use of a hand lens, we attacked our task of describing our object in our Science Journal. We learned that this is called "recording data" or "recording our observations". Ask your First Grade Student, "What is a Scientist?", you may be amazed at their answer!