Greenjackets Quest

Dear First Graders (parents too),

Come and join Mr. D, Ms. Maurantonio, Mrs. Grosso and I for a run, as Mr. D continues his quest to make the Greenjackets team. The G2G work will be happening at River Road Park, on Tuesday, December 13th, at 3:15 p.m. We are going to run a mile on the trail in River Road Park, and all are welcome to join us!

Hope to see you there!

Spanish

Dear First Graders,

     It has been a busy two days getting back into the routine of what it means to be a learner at Rosendale. We can do it!

    Yesterday, we enjoyed hearing all about one another's Thanksgiving! We even got to celebrate a friends birthday!

    Today, Michael's mom came in and taught us a little Spanish.  Did you show off some of the words we learned to someone at home?

Bear Hugs,

Shape Battleship!

Dear First Graders,

     You first graders did a great job using positional and 3D shape names to play battleship in partners. Parents, one team had to tell the other team what to do and the goal was to make two identical structures.  It was no easy feat! Cylinder and sphere seem to be the trickiest for us!

See some of us in action: Shape Battleship

    We also had a sibling as our mystery reader! She shared two great Thanksgiving stories.

 
    In computers, we had fun using some great Thanksgiving websites. Click here: Turkey Day

    I have so much to be thankful for and you, first graders, are top on my list. Have a wonderful holiday with your family and friends.

Bear Hugs!

PJ Day

Dear Class,

    Boy did we rock in our comfy PJ's today!

   I continue to be impressed with how well you know your shapes.  Yesterday, we worked on making composite shapes by putting together shapes.  You first graders sure are creative.  Keep working on identifying those tricky new shapes by name (trapezoid and hexagon).  

We also have been learning a lot about Thanksgiving. I was impressed with how you worked with a buddy to compare and contrast the first Thanksgiving to todays! Great thinking!!

Bear Hugs!

Happy Veteran's Day

Dear First Graders,

   I was very impressed with your wonderful singing during our Veteran's Day assembly on Thursday.

Bear Hugs,

Shhhhhhhh.... shapes!

Dear First Graders,

      Boy was I impressed with all your great thinking with our shapes lesson today!

    We learned about Open and Closed (no openings, corners and sides meet) shapes!   We also made open and closed shapes with 3 straws and 4 straws.

     Last week, we celebrated our one friend's birthday a week early since she is traveling this week.

    Mr. D also came in to kick off his blog about his BIG goal.  Check it out:  goo.gl/6SJyED

Plus we had two mystery reader over the last two weeks!  Wow, we have been busy!

Bear Hugs,