Week 32

While we should celebrate and take care of the Earth everyday, we celebrated Earth day on Friday by reading one of my all time favorites, The Lorax, and cleaning up the Stephenson playground and walkways. The first graders truly took the Lorax's words to heart "unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it's not."

In math we started exploring fractions. The first graders did an amazing job dividing up their whole sandwiches (paper squares) into equal parts to share with friends. Next time you have sandwiches, pie or cake with your kids ask them how you can cut it so that each person will get the same amount!

In Junior achievement, Ms. Karla taught the kiddos all about the difference between wants and needs. Although toys and candy might sometimes seem like needs, the first graders did a great job distinguishing the difference :)

Reminders:

All Week -- Foundation USED Book Sale - All week!  @ 2:15 - 6:00pm - WET ROOM
4/26 -- Visit from the Humane Society
4/27 -- Young Audiences Clay Project @ 12:00 - 1:30
4/29 -- Mother/Son Kickball @ 6:30 - 8:30pm - GYM

Here are some photos of some first grade writers and readers sharing their work...