Harvest Celebration

Dear Families,

The first grade team will be having a harvest festival on Monday, October 31st.  As we end our unit on plants, each classroom will be cooking a fall food recipe focused around apples and pumpkins.  In lieu of a holiday party each classroom will share their food creations with the other first grades in the afternoon.  We are asking for donations of ingredients instead of holiday treats.  Also, student council has also made this day black and orange day!
First Grade Team

Ingredients:

1 medium sized pumpkin _____________               

Drinks___________________

Old newspapers  _________________                   

Sugar__________________

Cups  _________________                                        

Cinnamon __________________
Napkins _________________                                    

Lemon Juice ________________      
Plates _________________                                       

1 bag of apples   ________________
1 bag of apples  __________________

If you can donate any of these items please let me know as soon as possible.  We may try to start some baking on Friday if possible.  Thank you so much.  I also would love to have one or two helpers on Monday for a couple hours to help cook if anyone if interested please let me know a time you are available.

 Thanks again.  

Mrs. Saunders

What's New!!

Dear Families,
I'm sorry that I haven't had a new post in a while.  Life got a little on the busy side.  I am hoping that the internet will come in at home tomorrow so that I will be able to be more consistent with my updates!  Things are really on a roll here in our room.  It is exciting to see how we have started to get into a routine, and have really wonderful learning days!

Last week we finished our plant unit.  We have a wonderful bean plant growing in our classroom window. I am sure that if your child joins us for parent/teacher conferences that they will want to share with you the process that we went through to get this plant this large!

This week we have started our Social Studies unit called Now and Long Ago.  We have been learning and comparing how life in the home and schools were in the past to how they are now.  We will continue this unit of study right up till Thanksgiving.

The first grade is planning something different for our holiday/Halloween celebration Monday the 31st.  I will be sending home more information about this tomorrow.

I am looking forward to meeting with each of you this week during parent/teacher conferences.  Please bring any questions or concerns that may have come about due to the progress reports.  I am also looking forward to sharing what is going on with our 1st grade literacy block (what was called learning lab in K).