First Grade Updates

During the past few weeks we:

• learned about the various treasures in our country, family, and home.  What treasures can you find in your home? On the beach? When visiting Yellow Stone Park? Your back yard?
• learned how to write an informational paragraph using a topic sentence and supporting details.
• continued learning more about solids and liquids.  Students recently explored a plethora amount of mystery liquids. Students learned about sorting circles and how to sort the many liquids according to their properties.  Please ask your child if liquid detergent, cooking oil, colored water, hand soap is TRANSLUCENT OR TRANSPARENT, VISCOUS OR FLOWING, BUBBLY OR FOAMY? ? Students are doing a fabulous job working with their science buddies to problem solve and help each other learn more about solids and liquids.  Please ask your child scientist what kind of scientific illustration or focus question they worked on today? Just to mention that we have science every Tuesday and Wednsday.
• worked on our invitations for our First Grade Puppet Show! Students have been practicing their lines and putting the finisihing touches on their puppet during art.  The actual script is derived from our Readers' Theater Series. Students will be putting on a puppet show for the students at JCDS.  We are currently trying to figure out a day that parents can also attend the puppet show.  I will keep you posted.

Reminders:

*Parent Teacher Conferences

*Encourage your child to Login to Reading Street.  Students will gain more fluency and comprehension when practicing the e-reads!

Thank you!

Mrs. Davis

Several engineers competing.......

First and Second Graders Explore Solid Materials

Who can build the tallest tower?  Materials that must be used; 1 straw, 2 cardboard squares, 1 cup, and 1 square of tinfoil.  What solid materials were helpful when building your tower?  Ask your child about their scientific illustrations and their "I wonder" entries in their science notebooks.

Second Grade Science Museum

Reese explaining what a plant needs to survive.

Eli disussing the process of photosynthesis.

Where does cotton come from? Max explains to many students at JCDS

Ben anwering the question, "Which plant made these items?"

Pre-k students learning about the various parts of a plant.

Annabelle's sweater that is made from bamboo.

Annabelle reading poetry about the life cycle of a plant.

Is a coconut a seed?

Students acting out "photosynthesis"