Happy Holidays!

First Grade worked hard in the last couple of weeks to learn the classic Christmas carol, Deck the Halls. We all tried playing on keyboard first, then split into a bell group, and keyboards. We put it all together (almost!) at the end! Also, 4 students decided to learn all of the old lyrics and sing the song! Enjoy!

Luckily we learned this song because when the Grinch came to our classroom, it was the only thing that calmed him down! 

Then, Santa heard how we were all trying our best in First Grade and got our emailed book wishes, so he came and delivered those to us. We were all so happy! 

Thank you to the PTA for organizing such a wonderful Holiday celebration day and we wish you all a very warm and happy holiday! 

Why do we need forces?

Now that we have a better understanding of forces and motion through our investigations and using that knowledge to build a marble run, students looked back through their wonderings on the wonder wall and found that many of them wondered why we even needed forces at all:

So we started to think about ways we saw forces working in our lives to make things easier. 

We also did an investigation into magnetic forces looking around our classroom for things that were magnetic. We noticed that some things magnetic force were stronger than others.

Reminders:

Monday, December 14th

• Swimming!
• Turn in Word Study books.

Friday, December 18th

• Santa's visit!
• The Grinch will visit!

Have a Great Weekend!

Decorating the Tree

Grade 1 put "We Can Do Hard Things" to the test last week by making origami stars to decorate our school tree with. In the last few months we studied 2D and 3D shapes and this origami used pentagon shaped paper and the repetition of 5 folds to create. 

Please don't forget you can order the plate your child made here!