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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$perts show us
how to create speech bubbles to put our
words in. reat 4ob m+ friends5
/ates to 6emember
%ednesda+7 o-ember 28th"
29th o chool
,hanksgi-ing reak
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,hursda+7 /ec 12th ;
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<art+"""ook e$change
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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.