Look at the cool characters who showed up in first grade today.
Tomorrow we are making animal/fairy houses. Please send in all nature items your child collected by tomorrow for our fun activity.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
What a fun Mountain Day we had here at Leverett School yesterday. All classes headed out to the woods for a hike with their classmates. First and Second Grades walked to Leverett Pond. We had some obstacles to face on the way, like a fallen tree to climb over, which made it even more fun. While we were there, Tracey read us a traditional tale about a beaver and we saw a real beaver dam. We collected signs of Fall to bring back to school to create into art projects during art class. It was a really fun day.
Back in the classroom….. we are learning about Seasons and how sunlight affects the changing patterns we see as the Earth moves from one season to the next. Today the kids broke up into teams to do the “Seasons Challenge”. They had to work together as a team to create a tree that would teach others what happens in each season and what changes we might see.
Our readers are making progress every day! Keep reading with your first grader each night. It makes a big difference in their confidence with the book the next day. And thank you for remembering to return the reading bags to school every day.
Marla continues to help us make beautiful visual journals where we record the important things we do and learn about in first grade.
Remember there is no school on Friday for a Curriculum Day for teachers.
Take a peek at some of the math games we play at school!
The Courtyard Keepers have been busy at work going out to the courtyard several times a week to weed and clean up the garden beds. It looks better out there already! We have the help of master gardener and retired Leverett teacher, Deb Brazeau. She’s been very kind to donate her time and teach us all a bit about gardening.
Every so often we need a break, so we strike a yoga pose and try to make a letter of the alphabet with our bodies. Today we were making the letter U, and we had so much fun doing so, I just had to show you.
In science we have been studying the sun and the moon, how they both give off light and appear to move across the sky. You may have seen some of our experiments coming home. This day we were playing with shadows. We put our friend Count out in the sun, traced his shadow, and came back later to see what happened. It moved! What happened? We had a great discussion about the sun’s place in the sky.
Some more excellent builders:
Thanks to everyone helping out on Harvest Festival this weekend. I wish I could be there to take part in all the fun with the kids. I hope it’s a super fun day!
DONATIONS NEEDED!!
Many classes at LES will be doing a service job this year for our school. The First Grade will be the “Courtyard Keepers”. The courtyard is a beautiful space in the center of our school that is not used much. We are going to do what we can to clean the courtyard and make it a more inviting place for children, staff and parents to enjoy.
WE NEED YOUR HELP!
Can you donate any of the following objects to help make this job a little more fun and productive for the kids?
If you would like to help with this project, please let me know. We will be taking small groups of children outside to lend a hand during choice time at the end of the day when the weather is nice.
Thank you!
Alissa
shea@leverettschool.org
