Dear Families,
We had busy and fun week here in 1S!
As a celebration of earning our 70th class point and of finishing Charlotte's Web, we watched the movie together. The class was so surprised and excited to do so! We finished the movie today. If you read Charlotte's Web as a child you may remember that the end is a bittersweet, it definitely moved some of us tears. Ask your child to share what happened and how they felt about it.
In math, we have been learning and playing math games that will help us practice and solidify our math facts up to 10. We have shared the game Bear Facts Ten with you yesterday. If you have not yet, please click here to see and print the cards out for the game. We have also added instructions to two other games (Turn Over Ten and Tens Go Fish) in the folder shared. (You can even use regular cards to play all three games.) Another great way to reinforce math facts is simple words problems during dinner, in the car or etc. Here are a few examples, "If Amanda has 4 cookies and Min Young gives her 7 more, how many would she have now?", "If Min Young has 10 candies but she gives 2 to Amanda and 2 to Emily, how many would she have left?" (Using classmates names and teachers names are a great way to keep children engaged! They love it!)
In bird work, we finished our work on studying the bald eagle. We will be displaying our beautiful work on the bulletin board upstairs soon. However, our Imaginary Birds are up for display and this is how beautiful they looks!
In Spanish with Monica, we worked on an elevator art project that gave a us a chance to express ourselves artistically while practicing writing numbers and the people in our lives in Spanish !
For Mystery Guest, we had Ruth, Benjamin's mom come in and share Benjamin's favorite sport; Soccer!! Ruth read a book about soccer and we were very lucky to all get our own soccer balls! Afterwards, we went out to the field and practiced some drills and played a big game of soccer! Thank you, Ruth!
This week in ethics we read Rhino's and Raspberries: Tolerance Tales For The Early Grades. Laura shared the Joe and the Carpenter with us. It's a beautiful story set in Appalachia about friendship, conflict and the power of building bridges. If you would like to share the story at home you can read or listen to it click here.
On Wednesday, all of Fieldston Lower came together to honor Dr. Martin Luther King at our school- wide assembly.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Best,
MY and Amanda
