First Grade Newsletter
Sept.27, 2009
Mrs. Eriksson's Class
Storyline:
Last week we went on two field trips to down town Bend. Both were a great deal of fun. We went to the High Desert Museum and the Bend Historical Museum. We are beginning to set the stage for our research projects.
We finished creating the Fritz family and they will be up on the frieze board this week. We also began working on the Map of Bend and the surrounding area. The goal is to have everything up by the end of the week!
Our next field trip will be to Drake Park. We are going to be doing some cast finishing and watching (maybe trying) some fly-fishing. We are planning this walking field trip for Tuesday, October 6. If you are fly fisherman or have experience with cast fishing, please let me know if you would like to help. Even if you don't have experience, let me know, as I will need some volunteers.
Storyline needs: Yellow rafts, canoes and kayaks, paddles and life jackets. No we are not going on the water, but we are going to use them at school for an incident.
Questions to ask your children:
What was the neatest thing you saw at the High Desert Museum?
Did you like the miner's Cave?
What part of the museum do you think Julian would like the best? Why (likes lizards and snakes)
What was you favorite part of the Bend Historical Museum?
What was one interesting thing you learned?
Culmination: Our Culmination is tentatively scheduled for the week of November 9 – 12. A specific date and time will be announced soon.
Homefun:
Please read the poems in the Poem folder with your children and return the folder to school on Mondays.
Math:
Last week in Math we worked on:
· Ordering numbers
· Counting by 5's
· Making and counting tally marks (It would be good to practice at home!)
Writing:
We continued to work on Mini Moments.
Reading:
This week we worked with
· The "ip" word family
· The short a and i sounds
· Changing sounds (beginning, middle and ending sounds) in words to create new words.
Volunteering:
There are still some time slots left for volunteering if you are interested.
Back to School Night:
If you did not make it to Back to School Night and you did not receive an information packet please email me. I got many emails last week about different things. I lost track!
PE/Music:
No Specials this week.
I hope you had a great weekend. I am sorry for the late newsletter, but I was in Portland all weekend for soccer!
Becky
