At-Home Activity

The 1st grade will be hosting the Citizen of the Month Assembly at the end of May. One child from the 1st grade classes will be chosen to read an essay they have written on the subject of sportsmanship. All students wishing to be considered for reading a speech to the student body at the end of the May need to submit an essay to their teacher by Tuesday, May 22nd. A winning essay/student will be chosen by the 1st grade teachers. Parents of that child will be notified so they can make plans to be at the assembly. This is good public speaking experience and an excellent opportunity for video memories.

At-Home Project #1: Class President

Every year Room 11 has the tradition of electing a class president. This supports the government portion of our Social Science standards. Those students interested in running for Room 11 Class President 2016-17 will work on a speech at home to be delivered to the class on November 6, 2017. Speeches will be filmed using chroma key technology and saved to flash drives or hopefully school email accounts

Students who would like to have their videos edited, will make sure they are not wearing any shade of green or yellow in any part of their outfit.

On this day we will also try to film our expert interviews. Those students wanting their interviews to be edited will also need to remember not to wear green or yellow on that Monday. 

Twelfth Day of School

We took our first Math test today. There was no homewrok assigned.

In Writing we brainstormed things we like to do in preparation for writing personal narratives.

In Social Science we discussed the traditions of the original people of Australia called 'first people'. We then defined the term tradition (possibly tested) and discussed traditions of the United States. Discuss: what traditions do you share with your family?

For oral language we read the African Folk Tale: The Great Tug-of-War.