September 21

Daniel working with number bonds with M&M's. 

 We had the fire department come to our classroom this week and talk about fire safety.  We got to see the fire engine.  Fireman Jeff talked about making a book with your hands when you stop, drop and roll to protect your face and he reminded families to have an emergency exit plan in your house in case of a fire. 

Our math has quickly picked up the pace!  We are learning number bonds and the kids have been doing great with this.  Today a sheet will come home with a large blank number bond on it.  Feel free to use crackers, marshmallows, or cotton balls.  Take a deck of cards and have your child draw 2.  Place the counters (we used M&M's) in the circles.   Joey drew 5 and 9.  He put 9 in one circle, 5 in the other.  Then he counts them to see how many there are all together. 






This year we have decided to have a bug theme in our first grade hallway.  Our class is the ladybugs.  We created some artwork this week to hang in the hallway.  They worked VERY hard on this. 

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I am sending home our first book order today.  I will send home one every other month.  Please send it back by next Friday and make the checks payable to Scholastic Book Clubs.  Here is the link to the site:https://orders.scholastic.com/H9BYT   If you order online both the class and yourself can get a free book.  Here's the class code: H9BYT. 

Have a great weekend!