Happy Monday! I hope everyone had a nice long weekend. We had a very busy week even though it was only four days for the students.
Well first and most wonderful was that our compliment chain hit the ground, and we had our first party. The students voted on cupcakes and they were yummy!
In addition to that celebration, we also celebrated the conclusion of our Writing Workshop unit on Small Moments. Please come and read our pieces that we published. We are learning how to really appreciate our classmates work. We fancied up our stories and highlighted the parts we liked with post it notes.
We also began a service project with reading. Scholastic invited us to take part in a Paws for reading program in which Scholastic will donate books. I sent home the user names and password for each child today. The students seem really excited about this opportunity and Sharon Hauser from SPCA brought Rusty to kick off our first grade service project this year for their organization.
In math, we have learned about odd and even numbers. Every number we read about or things we counted, we connected it to either an odd or even number. Please help your child with this at home. It is especially challenging with two and three digit numbers. I would like to thank Mrs. Levitz for being our first game parent. What a delight it was for Johnathon to have mom help us with counting coins.
The picture Lady program began this week. A big thank-you to Patty Ann Hamblen for teaching us about Raoul Dufy. Blue was his favorite color and he loved painting the water. Like us, he learned alot about painting from his friends.

Once again Mrs. Peck came with another organ. This time a heart! It was big and it was a cow's. Ask your child about it. Now it is in our class, to take a closer look. Well this week is just as busy! Have a good one. We will!