Hop, Walk, Waddle, and Bound!

Dear Families,

We have had a fun and busy week leading up to vacation.  Most of the week has been spent wrapping up our Penguin unit. Each child has painted a life sized penguin with accurate features and coloring.  They all did a beautiful job. This is a class full of talented artists! The penguins will be hanging in the hallway after vacation. When you're next in the school, come and check them out. We will continue to study penguins in Language Arts through research and report writing. In math we'll move on to Explorations in Geometry.

Thank you to Addison's and Veronica's moms who taught us a wonderful Four Winds lesson about animal tracks on Wednesday!  The class learned all about the four types of track patterns we might observe in Vermont. They include: Walkers, Hoppers, Waddlers, and Bounders. Let me know if any of your children spot some of these tracks in the snow outside!

Today, our last day before the break, was full of learning and fun!  This morning we had a visitor named John from CSWD.  Students will come back from break to find the sorting station (pictured below) in the cafeteria and will be asked to sort their liquids, recycling, trash, and compost!  Volunteers will be there to help them. We are also going to begin composting in our classroom during snack time.  Our class is very excited to help reduce the amount of trash our school produces!

One of our students won this weeks Reading Celebration book trivia question when she answered correctly! This was the question : " A young cat mistakenly tries to to find milk in an unusual place.  Where does he look for the milk?" Find the answer at the bottom of this post.  We ended our day with our school wide reading celebration and a very entertaining performance of juggling and comedy by Steven Gratto.


Check out these first graders hard at work on their life sized penguins!

Have a fantastic vacation with your first graders!

Answer to the trivia question:  The moon from Kitten's First Full Moon  by  Kevin Henkes.