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Mrs. Scholfield’s First

Grade

Classroom Newsletter

 

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%hat %e&re 'earning

cholastic ews* %e were learning about

turke+s. %e learned that turke+&s snoods (the

 piece of skin on their beak) changes color to

show what kind of mood the male turke+ is in.

%e also learned that turke+&s like to take a dust

 bath. ,he+ use their claws to dig in the dirt tofind food. %e continued to work on our

nonfiction te$t features b+ re-iewing what we

alread+ know about nonfiction. %e searched the

weekl+ reader to answer uestions about the

te$t.

/ail+ * ,his week ha-e been working on

rebuilding our stamina for /ail+ . %elearned how to run the app low /raw

and how this can be used for our spelling

words. %e had a few e$perts show us

how to create speech bubbles to put our

words in. reat 4ob m+ friends5

/ates to 6emember 

%ednesda+7 o-ember 28th"

29th o chool

,hanksgi-ing reak 

:rida+7 /ec !th

 ;<opcorn6egular = >heese

,hursda+7 /ec 12th ; 

<rogress 6eports go home

:rida+7 /ec 20th ;?olida+

<art+"""ook e$change

%inter >elebration rotation

 

ook rders*

Af +ou were interested in

ordering books A will hold

the order until ne$t week

Monda+. ,his is the onl+

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pelling e$t %eek*

%e will not ha-e

spelling ne$t weekdue to onl+ ha-ing

two da+s. %e will

 pick up again the

following week with

the a+ spelling

 pattern. 

%hat we are 'earning*

cience* %e are continuing to work on li-ing and

nonli-ing things. %e ha-e included our Apads into

this endea-or. ,he children are learning how to sur

the internet using a kid safe search engine to find

li-ing and nonli-ing pictures. %e are then going tocreate our own book that shows the four li-ing and

nonli-ing things we choose. ,he children ha-e

 been working -er+ hard to locate pictures this is a

trick+ concept for some of them because we are no

uite proficient in our spelling. o we ha-e mo-ed

to using the microphone on our ke+boards.

%hat we are 'earning*

Math* %e are finishing our unit 3 in our math

series. ,he students are becoming uite the e$perts

at sol-ing unknown partner7 unknown total stor+

 problems. ,he unknown start problems are the one

that are the trickiest for them. %e will re-iew for

the unit test on Monda+ and the test will be gi-en

on ,uesda+ before the ,hanksgi-ing reak.%riting* ,his week we became e$perts at looking

at a mentor author. %e used eorge Mc>lement&s

te$t to help us stud+ what he did as an author and

tr+ this in our own work. :or some of us we reall+

like using the ellipses and want to tr+ them out

more in our writing. ,he hardest trait we are tr+ing

is writing our e$act actions. ,his can be trick+

 because we are using more describing words withlots of detail. %e will continue tr+ing this but will

 be mo-ing into our second unit in writing which is

nonfiction writing.

,hanksgi-ing ,rue or

:alseB

%e used our Apads this

week to learn more about

the first ,hanksgi-ing that

the pilgrims celebrated. %e

 predicted an answer and

then scanned a C6 code to

find out if our answer was

correct.