Important dates:

• NO SCHOOL 1/20
• FIELD TRIP to McAuliffe-Sherpard Discovery Center 1/23
• We will be leaving school promptly at 9:00. Please make sure your child eats a hearty breakfast. There will be no time for snack. Chaperones can follow the buses or meet us at the Discovery Center no later than 10 am. If you plan to bring your child home after the field trip, please reach out to me for a necessary form to be completed before the trip.
• First Grade Market "Save the Koalas" is Thursday, February 6th at 8:30 am. All families are welcome to attend.
  This is our 3rd Annual First Grade Market. This year will be donating all the money raised to help the koalas in fire-ravaged Australia. First graders will be working on a variety of handmade creations to sell at the market. Most items will be sold for $1. Any donations are also welcome! We will work on making and creating in class but they are welcome to create at home too! Last year we raised over $2,300 for The Georgie Badiel Foundation. (This foundation provides clean drinking water for those living in Burkina Faso.) They are so excited to make a difference.

Here's just a glimpse of what we've been working on:

• Completed a Double Dude craft 
• Worked on doubles facts
• Began learning more about nonfiction texts
• Learned the difference between even and odd numbers
• Learned about Martin Luther King Jr. 
• Completed a "peace" quilt with the Koalas
• Learned if animals can laugh
• Began working on things to sell at our market 
• Shared our writing with our buddies

January 10th

Important dates:

• EARLY RELEASE 1/17
• NO SCHOOL 1/20
• FIELD TRIP to McAuliffe-Sherpard Discovery Center 1/23
• First Grade Market "Save the Koalas" is Thursday, February 6th at 8:30 am. All families are welcome to attend.
  This is our 3rd Annual First Grade Market. This year will be donating all the money raised to help the koalas in fire-ravaged Australia. First graders will be working on a variety of handmade creations to sell at the market. Most items will be sold for $1. Any donations are also welcome! We will work on making and creating in class but they are welcome to create at home too! Last year we raised over $2,300 for The Georgie Badiel Foundation. (This foundation provides clean drinking water for those living in Burkina Faso.) They are so excited to make a difference.

Here's just a glimpse of what we've been working on:

• Completed a penguin craft
• Learned the difference between fiction and nonfiction 
• Wrapped up our How-To writing unit
• Learned what fact families are and how numbers relate. 
• Talked about the moon
• Had readers' workshop with the Koalas

This month our class will begin to recognize the features and patterns of the moon as observed from Earth but I need your help! Find time in the evening to observe the moon and the night sky. We will use their nighttime observations for our moon science talks the following day. As a culminating activity, we will visit the McAuliffe Shepard Discovery Center in Concord on Thursday, January 23rd. A permission slip was sent home today. We will need as many volunteers as possible so please let me know if you are available!!! 

Happy Moon Gazing!