Red Ribbon Week!

 Greetings! Happy Monday! Welcome to Red Ribbon Week, Pumpkin Week, and Halloween Week in first grade. It is going to be an exciting week. 

In Religion class today, we talked about what was lost when Adam and Eve ate the fruit from the forbidden tree. We talked about how Adam and Eve left the Garden of Eden, peace was lost, and how the gates of heaven were closed. 

We began a new week of learning in Language Arts; this week we will be reading about habitats. We began by learning two new oral vocabulary words (habitat and depend). We then worked on making predictions as we read Babies in the Bayou. After that we learned how to blend and read words with end blends. Following that, we learned our new sight words. We ended the morning by reading The Best Spot which helped us practice reading words with end blends and our new sight words. 

This afternoon in Language Arts we talked about possessive pronouns. We practiced finding them in sentences. 

In Math class today we reviewed our flat shapes and dividing shapes into halves and fourths. 

Today is the beginning of Red Ribbon Week, a week devoted to making healthy choices and saying no to drugs. Today, we were lucky to meet some awesome women from the state. They talked to us about being buddies and not bullies. In addition, they talked to us about important Internet safety tips. We also got to meet and pet Emery, an electronics detection dog. 

Today is also the beginning of pumpkin week in first grade; we will be learning about pumpkins all week. We started our week with some pumpkin writing. We read Spookley, the Square Pumpkin. After reading the story, we created our own unique pumpkin and wrote about what made it special. 

Have a great night!