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News from Ms. Little’s 1^st Grade Class

November 21, 2013

Upcoming Events

·      Wednesday, November 27^th – Dismissal at 11:35

·      Thursday, November 28^th – Thanksgiving (no school)

·      Wednesday, December 4^th – Picture retakes

·      Friday, December 6^th – Scholastic Book Orders Due

Hello Families!

In Math, we’re continuing our work with adding and building our number sense. We have also been looking at types of graphs, discussing how the same information can be shown in different ways, and have practiced answering questions about each set of data.  We made our own bar graphs and collected data from our classmates about which color we liked best.

       

           

In Science, we are learning about living and nonliving things, and studying the life cycles of plants and animals. We planted an amaryllis bulb so that we could observe an example of a plant life cycle in our classroom.

After discussing what an amaryllis typically looks like, we drew and wrote a prediction of what our amaryllis might look like when it grows. We’ve been observing our plant closely each day to see if we notice any changes.

We have third grade buddies! We’ve paired up with Mrs. Messina’s third grade class and we are conveniently located across the hall from each other. First, we listened to the story ‘Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving by Dav Pilkey.

After the story, we made turkey glyphs with our buddy. The color of each part of our turkey represents something about us.  For example, if we colored the feathers of the turkey yellow, it meant that we like to eat corn. If we colored the feathers green, it meant that we like to eat green beans.

                                       

We can’t wait to see our third grade buddies again!

 Enjoy the weekend! J