First grade news
Dear First grade families, This week was all about Kindness. Thank you for sharing with us how kindness has transferred into your home. Through reading books, art projects, and class discussions, we shared how we can be thoughtful with one another. Thank you to the Abel family for opening the doors of the Watermark factory and showing the class how to plate copper into nickel and gold. We loved seeing the factory. It was very cool to be sitting in a board room! In Reading this week we learned a lot of phonics rules! We learned that “have” is an... Read More
Kindness Week
Community Building This week we have been focusing on kindness- how we can spread kindness at home, in school, and the greater community. Second graders heard the story Each Kindness, by Jacqueline Woodson, a story about a girl named Maya who moves to a new school and the main character Chloe chooses to be unkind to her. Maya attempts many times throughout the story to befriend Chloe, but Chloe continues to choose to be unkind. As we discussed how we thought the story would end most students predicted “They will make up and become friends”. However, the story closes with... Read More