Gung Hay Fat Choy!

Happy Chinese New Year! This year is the year of the snake.  Today we learned about the Chinese New Year and about the zodiac signs that go with them.  Many thanks to Summer and her family for sharing so many wonderful Chinese artifacts and providing Chinese New Year books for everyone.  We had a very celebratory day today!

In SWR we reviewed for our upcoming assessment.  We are still trying to remember to end sentences with punctuation!  Our WOW word of the week is somber- gloomy or serious.  We practiced using somber in sentences today. 

During math, we rotated through stations and took our Unit 6 math test.  Look for your child's test in their math folder today.  We will start unit 7 tomorrow which is all about shapes.

We finished our classroom realistic fiction story today!  We are still deciding how to publish it, so be on the lookout for that soon.  When we were finished with that, the first graders continued to plan for their own realistic fiction stories and some of them even started drafting a first copy!  I cannot wait until they are finished and are able to share them.  

Tomorrow we are celebrating Red Clover books in the afternoon.  We are really looking forward to it!