A Seuss-Tastic Week!

Random Acts of Kindness
The 120th day of school is approaching and we are hoping to reach our goal of 120 Random Acts of Kindness. Students may fill out and return any completed RAKs in their green folders. Each member of our class should complete at least 9 RAKs. It is our hope that through this experience first graders will learn to be kind, thoughtful and generous members of our community.

Writing
We are continuing our unit on informative writing. Last week, we visited our research classroom to research the mammal we will complete our report on. First graders had the choice to research skunks, bats, or raccoons. We learned a lot of interesting facts about our mammals and took detailed notes in our research notebooks. This week, we returned to our homerooms to begin to compose our reports.

First Grade Seussville
Thank you for your support in helping to make our Dr. Seuss inspired week such a success! We had a blast dressing up each day and having mystery readers come in to read us Dr. Seuss books!

Cat in the Hat Day

Mystery Reader: Mrs. Agati

Wacky Wednesday

Mystery Reader: Mrs. Hoyt

The Lorax Day

Mystery Readers: Mr. Lyons & Ms. Lane

Oh the Places You’ll Go! Day

Mystery Readers: Mrs. Nicholas & Ms. Zanotti

 

Talking Tidbits

• Seuss Week
• Mystery Readers
• Digraph Blends
• Our informative reports
• Using a hundreds chart
• Counting 120
• Skip Counting

Happy February Break!

Carnival Baskets Reminder!
Thank you so much to our room parents for organizing our Room 104 donation to the Pine Glen Carnival! If you haven’t already and would like to contribute, please send in your donation in an envelope by Friday, FEBRUARY 26th. Please write your child’s name, room number, and Jack Moglia’s name on the envelope in case it gets lost. You may contact our room parents (Kerri, Jill, or Ann) with any questions. Thank you all for the ongoing support!

Informative Writing
We are officially published authors yet AGAIN! This time we wrote an informative class report on chickens. We discussed informative writing and how it’s different from narrative and persuasive writing. Informative writing teaches someone something and is based on facts. Students have worked together in small groups for the past few weeks observing our chickens and researching using books and iPads. We then created catchy headings, topic sentences, learned how to turn our sticky note facts into sentences, and brainstormed closing sentence “Buzz Words”. Finally, after a lot drafting and hard work, we were able to publish our book! A copy of this book was sent home this week in your child’s green folder. Take some time to celebrate their writing success! They are all such wonderful authors and illustrators!

Bowling
We had a blast on our bowling field trip! Thank you to our Chaperones and everyone who volunteered to help out.. we had an overwhelming amount of volunteers and wish we could have brought you all! Also - thank you to Ms. Govoni and Ms. Nicholas for teaching us bowling in P.E. and for their help in organizing this special day. Check out some pictures of our fun-filled day below!

Talking Tidbits:

• Bowling in Math
• Our published informative book on Chickens!
• What’s next - Mammals!
• Presidents day
• Pajama & Movie Day
• Our field trip to Wamesit Lanes!
• Valentine’s Day Celebrations

Bowling Fun!

Happy Vacation!

The Chicks Have Arrived!

Thanks to Ms. Pavilcek and the Burlington Science Center, we have been able to enjoy the company of baby chicks in our very own classroom! On Monday, our eggs were delivered to us in our classroom incubator. When we came into school on Tuesday morning, we were so excited and surprised to see that many of our chicks had hatched overnight! We are very lucky to now have 7 chickens in our classroom. Throughout the week we have been taking careful observations of our chickens in our very own Chick Journal. We even had the opportunity to hold or pet our chicks. Ask your first grader about what observations they have made and check out some pictures of our new visitors below!

 Our Eggs Hatching!

Chick Hatching Video!

Observing Our Chicks!

Whip & Nae Nae Video
A few weeks ago, Pine Glen students earned their first school wide prize for earning enough Hoot Cards - a dance party! Check out the link below!

Whip & Nae Nae Video

Ms. Zannotti’s Blog
Take a minute to visit Ms. Z’s blog here! A link to the Pine Glen Counseling blog can also be found in the blog list of the side of the page.

Talking Tidbits:

• Our Baby Chickens!
• Sneaky “E”
• Fact families and related facts
• Informative Writing
• Chicken research
• Bowling in P.E.!