Highlights of Our Penultimate Week!

Hello families,

This week whizzed by! We’ve been having a lot of fun wrapping up units and beginning a new project too!

This week we began our PBL geometric memory quilt project. We read Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt. We also began to design our own representations of our first grade memories. This has been a very engaging activity thus far. It’s also been fun to reminisce about some of our favorite times together this year.

We also read last year’s class book “In First Grade…” to get ready to write our version of the book. Now these kids are the experts on first grade and will share their ideas of what to expect in first grade with the incoming class on step-up day next Friday.

We also did some fun writing this week. Students picked a book they’ve read and wrote about a character they know well. They put lots of details in about the character: who they are, what they like or dislike, what they say, and what they do.

We had our last assessment in word study. Our word study notebooks that we used a little bit this year were sent home on Thursday. The front pages we used for class practice. In the back are the assessments for the 7 units we covered this year.

On Thursday we had a super fun day! We played with the fun toys, got our faces painted, ran obstacle races, and of course enjoyed many train rides during our Big Blue Trunk play day! Afterwards we ate a pizza lunch, played a bit inside and watched “Finding Nemo.”

I will be out on Friday but Ms. Long will be in the spend the day as our guest teacher. Have a great weekend!

Please remember the All School Celebration is this Monday, June 11. Students should have:
-Sneakers
-Play clothes
-Sunscreen
-Hat
-Water bottle
-Please spray your child with bug spray before coming to school.

Dates to Remember:
Monday June 11 - All School Celebration: Field Day (sunscreen and hats recommended)
Wednesday June 13 - First Grade Fun Day 12:45-2:45 pm
Friday June 15 - Step-Up Day 8:45-9:15 am
Friday June 15 - Last Student Day - 11 am dismissal

❤ Mrs. Fox