Grade 1 Mrs. Switzer

We did it! You made it to your last day of school for 2020. We will see you in the New Year on January 4th, 2020 at 9 am on our Google Meet!  "We did gym and we played the bean bag scooter game!"-Tighe  "We did Christmas coloring!"-Klay  "We watched a Christmas movie!"-Sophia  "We did our desk clean!"-Angelina  Have a great Winter Break, I will miss you all!!!  Ps. Please remember to read over the break! It is so important to keep practicing to make sure we keep progressing in our reading! :)  LOVE ROOM 8 

 Tomorrow is our last day of school before Winter Break. You can wear your pajamas to school tomorrow! Please do not bring a stuffy. I sent home a package with your child yesterday for their learning at home. If you did not get this package, please email me as soon as possible.  "We did our Number Bingo!"-Zara  "We did gym! We played 4 corners and Rock Paper Scissors Tag!"-Korbin  "We did music!"-Tighe "We made our Number Bingo Board!"-Ava  "We did writing about our Gingerbread Men!"-Angelina Our spelling test is tomorrow! Please practice tonight.  LOVE ROOM 8 

 On Friday, we will have our last day of school for 2020. We also will celebrate pajama day on Friday.  Today, I have sent home your paper package for our online learning. We will be learning online from January 4th-January 8th. In the package, you will find our schedule, your login information if you forgot, and all of the work that is required to be completed. Your child MUST bring this back after our online learning week.  "We are going to do gym!"-Zara "We played on the playground!"-Gus "We did our new poem about Winter Animals!"-Olivia "We worked on our Christmas Cards!"-Korbin "We did our math test!"-Ava LOVE ROOM 8 

 On Friday, we will have our last day of school for December. We will come back to school on January 4th, online. Tomorrow, Mrs. Switzer will send home a paper package of work for you to do at home from January 4th-January 8th, 2021.  On Friday, we will celebrate pajama day! Please wear your pajamas to school! No stuffies. No tank tops. No shorts!  "We did winter in science!"-Klay  "We did math! We review for our number sense test tomorrow!"-Gus "We did our setting map and story telling!"-Tighe  "We're going to do art!"-Zara "We did reading!"-Joycelyn  We will have our number sense test tomorrow. If you would like to practice, please do some number sense activities on Mathletics tonight! Our test is on ten frames, tallies, ordering numbers, number lines, showing a number in many ways, one more/one less, two more/two less of a number up to twenty.  LOVE ROOM 8 

 Here are your spelling words for this week! Our last spelling test for 2020 will be on Friday!  On Friday, we will have pajama day at school. Please wear school-appropriate pajamas that are warm. No tank tops, no shorts. Please do not bring in a stuffy or wear slippers.  "We practiced editing!"-Tighe "We did writing about in Winter!"-Angelina "We did gym! We did scooters!"-Saqui  "We did word work!"-Korbin "We did recess!"-Phoenix LOVE ROOM 8 

 We have one week left of school before Winter Break! I will be sending home work for students to do during our online learning period from January 4-January 8, 2020.  Next Friday is our last day of school. It is also pajama day! Please wear school-appropriate pajamas. :) "We're going to do music!"-Zara "We just did WOW!"-Olivia "We did gym! We did the flat scooters!"-Orion "We did the Reindeer Art!"-Phoenix  "We did desk clean and our spelling test!"-Ella Please practice your reading over the weekend. I have been testing kids on their reading levels this week and many are moving up levels, exciting!  LOVE ROOM 8 

 Tomorrow is our Wacky Winter Hat Day! Please wear a school-appropriate wacky winter hat to school! Our spelling test is also tomorrow. Be sure to practice tonight.  "We did gym! We did scooters!"-Phoenix "We did music!"-Lexi "We did writing about animals sleeping in, and going to a warmer place, and animals that have fur and their prey!"-Joycelyn  "We did art! In art, we made little backgrounds for our reindeer!"-Ember  "We did science!"-Angelina  LOVE ROOM 8 

 Our Wacky Winter Hat Day is on Friday, December 11, 2020.  Please practice your spelling and your reading!  "We are going to do art!"-Sophia  "We did reading!"-Tighe "We did scooters in gym!"-Lexi  "We wrote a card for other people!"-Abigail  "We did word work!"-Angelina "We learned the setting and the characters about the Gingerbread Man!"-Joycelyn  LOVE ROOM 8 

 Please continue to bring in food for our Food Bank Drive that our class is hosting this week!  Wacky Christmas Hat Day is on Friday, December 11, 2020.  "We did gym and played scoops and balls!"-Zara "We did math and played the Gingerbread Man Game!"-Emilie  "This morning we had a new teacher!"-Abigail  "We did poetry!"-Angelina  "We played outside!"-Phoenix  Please practice your reading and your spelling words!  LOVE ROOM 8

  Here are your spelling words for this week! Please practice, our test will be on Friday!  Wacky Winter Hat day is on Friday!  "We did counting collections!"-Maddox  "We did music with Miss Wolfe!"-Abigail  "We writed our spelling words!!"-Myeisha "We did writing about Beginning, Middle, End about the Gingerbread Man!"-Sophia Please practice your reading tonight!  LOVE ROOM 8 

Tomorrow is our Christmas Sweater Spirit Day. Please wear a Christmas or Wacky sweater tomorrow to celebrate! You could also wear a festive dress, or shirt as well. 🎄 Tomorrow is also our Spelling Test. Please practice your spelling words! 🌟 Our Gingerbread Men in disguises are due December 7, 2020.  "We did math! We did Counting Collections!"-Lexi  "We did Rollin, Rollin!"-Gus  "We did gym! We played volleyball!"-Korbin "We did our Gingerbread Man Book!"-Maddox  "We wrote a letter to our family member!"-Tighe LOVE ROOM 8 

 On Thursday, we will have our Christmas/ Silly sweater day. Please wear your festive sweater to school on December 3, 2020.  This year, the Grade Ones are in charge of the Food Bank Drive. We will be collecting non-perishable food items from December 7-11, 2020. We are learning different ways to be extra kind through the month of December. Ask me what is one way to be kind!  "We did learning about Rollin, Rollin, Rollin!"-Gus "We did our new Popcorn poem!"-Myeisha  "We did writing about Kindness to our friends!"-Angelina  "We did gym! We played volleyball!"-Korbin Two friends have brought in their disguised Gingerbread Men. Please bring yours in once it is disguised!  LOVE ROOM 8