Red Ribbon Week

Dear Mom & Dad,

What an exciting week here at TvE. This week was Red Ribbon Week and each day we had something different to do each day. On Monday, we had our ROCK Solid Safety program in the cafeteria. We saw a funny show about how we can be safe and how to make safe choices even when there is not an adult around. Mrs. Maggart and Brian were even picked as volunteers to help with an explanation about what things are safe to drink and what aren't safe to drink or handle.

On Tuesday, we wore silly socks. On Wednesday, we all wore red. On Thursday, we wore silly hats. On Friday, we got to see a really funny puppet show. Ask me what I learned at the puppet show.

We finished our "First Grade Feeds" fliers that we made to distribute at the Fun Run on Saturday to promote our fight against hunger as we try to collect food for the Teravista food drive. We even started to graph how many different kinds of foods Tiger Team collected just in our classroom.

We also went on a gallery walk in our classroom and voted on the flyer we wanted to use in our broadcast about our fight against hunger. Kendall's flyer had the most votes! We practiced our parts and recorded this message to be featured on our morning broadcast.

We are still reading lots of poetry and Mrs. Maggart shared with us a few books filled with funny poems about kids just like me!

Next week we will be looking at more poetry and trying to write a new type of poem: a found poem!

In Writer's Workshop, we have been working very hard on our writing. After we finish a piece, we go back and "edit" our stories by looking at our punctuation, spaces, handwriting, spelling, and whether we wrote a beginning, middle, and end. Mrs. Maggart conferences with us and we edit it again. It's a lot of hard work, but I get to send my finished copy to the publishing company and they return it with a cover, typed, and ready for me to illustrate. Here are a few of Tiger Team sharing their published pieces.

In Science, we've been learning all about the 4 seasons of the year. We read a book every day about the seasons. Here are a few Mrs. Maggart shared with us full of lots of interesting facts.

During the fall or autumn season, we harvest pumpkins. On Thursday, we went to the science lab and explored pumpkins with our 5 senses. We had so much fun!

This week, we had all sorts of special visitors. Thank you Mrs. Rose for helping us during Writer's Workshop and for our Reading Round-up. Mr. Licht also helped us when he was a Watch D.O.G. dad this week. Mr. Rose came in and helped us in the science lab. On Friday, Mrs. Connelly, our Assistant Principal, also came to read us a surprise story. It was a special surprise to have her come into our classroom and share a special story with Tiger Team.

Tonight is the school dance. We hope to see Mrs. Maggart and the other 1st grade teachers at the Fun Run this Saturday. First grade will have a table where we will continue to collect food for our "First Grade Feeds" project. Whew! So much to do this weekend! See you Monday!

Love,

"What was one thing that I learned today?"

Conner learned that there are different kids of pumpkins.

Jayda learned that there are different kinds of pumpkins.

Danny learned pumpkins come in many shapes and sizes.

Riley learned that gourds exist.

Tierra learned that pumpkins have seeds in them and the seeds are soggy.

Kendall learned a pumpkin tastes yucky!

Max learned that 5-4=1.

Nyla learned that pumpkins smell nasty.

Luke learned that pumpkins taste terrible.

Brian learned that he can write music.

Alyssa learned that pumpkins can taste terrible!

Alicyn learned that pumpkin seeds taste good.

Jeremiah learned that pumpkins if you put your hand inside the pumpkin it feels mushy.

Matthias learned about pumpkins.

Madi learned about pumpkins.

Walker learned that pumpkins feel grodey.

Tomorrow is Friday. Tomorrow is the Jungle Store and college t-shirt day. Tomorrow we will be having a special "Boo" reader at Social Studies. Tomorrow after specials, we will get to see a very special puppet show for Red Ribbon Week.

Tomorrow night we have our school dance.

Saturday is the Fun Run! Come by and see our First Grade Feeds table. We already have collected 38 items of food to help fight hunger. We also made a commercial about it for the broadcast about hunger.
 
Love,
 

"What was one way I was a good leader today?"

Jeremiah was a good leader today because he was helping people at recess.

Danny was a good leader today because he was showing the kindergarteners how to act in the hallways.

Luke was a good leader today because he stayed on task and did his work.

Brian was a good leader today because he helped Perry at recess.

Alicyn was a good leader today because she was listening.

Conner was a good leader today because at Question of the Day he was doing his best work.

Tierra was a good leader today because she was following expectations.

Riley was a good leader today because he was staying on task and doing his best work.

Miyah was a good leader today because when we were on the carpet, she was being quiet and doing what she was supposed to do.

Max was a good leader today because he was doing his math stations.

Kendall was a good leader today because when her buddy told her to check her Question of the Day, she didn't get mad.

Alyssa was a good leader today because Alyssa helped Conner.

Madi was a good leader today because she helped people stay on task.

Walker was a good leader today because he helped Luke set up his computer.

Jayda was a good leader today because she was staying on task.

Tomorrow is Library Day. Don't forget your books if you didn't bring them today.

Tomorrow is also Wear a Silly Hat or Cap day for Red Ribbon Week. Don't forget to wear your red bracelet too.

Don't forget to bring any canned or boxed foods for our First Grade Feeds project. We are trying to fight hunger and see how much food we can collect. We already collected 24 things of food.
 
Love,
 

"What was one thing that I learned today?"

Tierra learned that it's going to be cold in February.

Jayda learned that 12-4=8.

Jeremiah learned that 1+2=3.

Melanie learned that 1+13=14.

Max learned that 99+1=100.

Nyla learned that 19+1=20.

Alyssa learned that 90+1=91.

Brian learned that there are turnarounds.

Kendall learned that 10+10=20.

Luke learned 10x3=30.

Madi learned that it rains a lot in spring.

Matthias learned about spring.

Riley learned that in spring, days get longer and in winter, days get shorter.

Miyah learned that fall makes days shorter and spring makes your days longer.

Today we finished our flyers for First Grade Feeds. We are trying to fight hunger. We are going to collect different foods and cans for people who are hungry. We help too. We can bring in food for our collection too.

On Saturday, there is the Fun Run and the festivities after. First grade will have a table where we will be collecting food at the Fun Run. All of the first grade teachers will be there. Here is the link for more information! http://www.ranchhouserun.org/

Tomorrow is wear all red day for Red Ribbon Week. Don't forget to wear your red bracelet.


Love,

"What was my favorite part of the day?"

Avery's favorite part of the day was when we read the snow book.

Brian 's favorite part of the day was PE.

Melanie's favorite part of the day was everything.

Riley's favorite part of the day was the part where the fire department came for our assembly.

Max's favorite part of the day was when we went to the fire safety show.

Jeremiah's favorite part of the day was when we read the book.

Nyla's favorite part of the day was lunch.

Danny's favorite part of the day was math.

Miyah's favorite part of the day was watching the show.

Jayda's favorite part of the day was watching the show.

Matthias's favorite part of the day was the show.

Tierra's favorite part of the day was when we went to recess.

Madi's favorite part of the day was science.

Conner's favorite part of the day was when we went to go see the fire deparment show.

Kendall's favorite part of the day was learning about science.

Walker's favorite part of the day was recess.

Tomorrow is wear silly socks for Red Ribbon Week. Don't forget to wear your red bracelets every day this week for Red Ribbon Week.
 
Love,

Hunger...

Dear Mom & Dad,

This week we have been talking about seasons, specifically autumn, our current season and what it means to me. We talked about the different weather for each season and some of the things I will get to wear as the weather changes. We talked about all of the holidays and celebrations that happen during certain seasons. Although I am very excited about special meals and even getting special treats and gifts on certain celebrations during these upcoming seasons, there are so many people out there who are not as fortunate as we are. Like as the weather turns colder and we pull out my winter coat, there are some kids that do not have the extra money for a new, warm coat. We have been talking about all the ways we can help. We are collecting Coins for Coats. When I find some loose change, I can put it in Harley, Mrs. Maggart's piggy bank that holds our collection.

On Thursday, we filled up a whole cup! Wow ... that means we were able to donate those coins to help someone. We want to keep filling Harley up and keep collecting those coins. It makes us feel good inside that we can help someone else.

We have also been talking about how we can help people who know all too well the word HUNGER. We talked about the definition of the word hunger. I guess when I say "I'm hungry," I don't mean it like those people who really do not have the extra food that I do. We talked about words that mean the same thing as hunger. Those words made us feel a little sad because we don't like to think that there are people, and even kids, in our community who feel this way everyday. We talked about words that mean the opposite of hunger. We really liked these words. We decided that we wanted to think of ways to help people feel these words and to help with hunger in our community.

We read this book about how the character, Strega Nona, who had too much food, was able to share with those people in her village who didn't have a good harvest and didn't have enough. She was able to keep them from being hungry during the cold winter.

We worked with a buddy to brainstorm all the ways we could help, just like Strega Nona did. We even made acrostic poems about HELPING Hunger. Next week, we are going to learn more about what all of first grade can do to help fight hunger.

This week, we read a fun story about how we all have dreams or ideas to something special one day and how we have to do certain things today to make that dream come true.

We wrote "Someday" pieces too! Here they are hanging on our publishing wall, and even a few up close.

On Friday, we got to celebrate our 25 earned compliments that we received this school year from adults all over TvE. We had Funny Feet Day and got to wear our silliest socks and fuzziest house shoes while we learned.

Next week is Red Ribbon Week and we have a whole week of special things planned, including our ROCK SOLID Safety program on Monday morning at 8:30. We will also have a special reader do "Boo Reading" on Friday followed by a fun puppet show on Friday afternoon. We will also be doing our pumpkin investigation next week. Thanks for helping me bring a pumpkin or 2!

Love,

"What was one thing I learned about today?"

Danny learned that when fall comes, leaves turn different colors and some leaves fall on the ground.

Kendall learned about fall.

Jayda learned about fall.

Jeremiah learned that autumn is the same as fall.

Max learned about Social Studies.

Nyla learned sometimes leave fall from the trees.

Miyah learned that leaves can turn different colors in the fall.

Riley learned more about fall.

Brian learned that leaves are brown, red, and orange.

Alyssa learned leaves can change different colors in fall.

Walker learned more about fall.

Tierra learned that when it's cold sometimes, you can wear a jacket.

Madi learned that we can help people get food.

Conner learned that whenever the leaves fall on the ground, there is a lot of them.

Luke learned that we are helping people when we gave coins.

Tomorrow is Funny Feet Day. We can wear our silly socks or bring houseshoes to wear in the classroom while we learn. Tomorrow is also Jungle day. Tonight is our perfermance at 5:45. Don't be late. Tomorrow is also college t-shirt day. Also tomorrow is our spelling test.
 
Love,