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Don’t forget our annual Family Sing-along with Mrs. Bills on Tuesday, December 23rd at 2:30 pm. Please come to enjoy some holiday singing with us! Prior to the sing along, first graders will be participating in a small craft and winter celebration in our classroom at 2:00 pm.
You are also invited to... Have you ever wanted to observe student classes and get a look at the quality of instruction at GCS? If so, please come to Parent/Community Visitor Day on January 14th from 9:15 AM -11:30 AM. At 9:15, we will share the menu of schedule options that we created for the morning. You will be able to create your own customized schedule, so that you can visit a variety of classes, based upon your personal interests. Are you interested? If so, please sign up here. For more information, please feel free to contact Mrs. Rossbach at 860-491-6020.
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Today was the GCS sharing assembly! The entire school got together and listened to grades first through sixth share out some amazing work! Take a look at the first graders reading their informational writing pieces! We were so proud of each and every one of them! 
All about making crayons!
All about the sun!
All about making gummy bears grow!
All about feeding a dog!
All about having a sleep over!
All about mixing colors to make new colors!
We worked hard today adding more details to our all about and how to stories! Our details are telling focusing on who, what, where, and how! Ask us more about it at home! Check us out! 
Listening to the winter story Brave Irene- about a fierce storm. Recording our thinking as we listen and sharing with our friends our think marks using those evidence based terms! 
Brave Irene on story online!
Recording our evidence!
Spending our morning meeting with Mrs. Lutz and Brownie. Today we learned strategies to pay attention. We reviewed what a tentascope is and how we use it in first grade! Ask us about the strategies and our listening rules! 
Teaching Brownie our rules and how to self- talk!
Following the directions with the game I do, you do!
Practicing our think marks with our reading buddies!
On Thursday we had the opportunity to read with our 4th grade friends. We shared with then more of our meaningful connections in a book and think marks, and together we worked on using evidence based terms! It was awesome and so exciting! 
Marking our thinking with our post it notes !
What a morning we had! A morning filled with excitement, energy, and most of all our special visitor! Mark shared an oral story of how he became a writer! We heard one of his famous children's book- A Snowman Named Bob,too! And at the end we got to ask questions we have been wondering about! He shared parts about Change the World Before Bedtime, why he doesn't illustrate his books, the insights of being an author, and so much more! Ask us about his visit! 
So excited to meet Mr. Mark Kimball Moulton!
Telling us about how the girl was captured!
Thanks Mr. Moulton for coming to GCS!
We have to use our imagination when we write!
Today in writers workshop we discussed how people have ways to remind them of things they never want to forget! We brainstormed how a backpack helps us remember our lunch and school supplies! In our classroom we use teaching charts to remind us of our learning targets! We talked about how important it is to make sure we are using all these resources so that we can learn new and harder things about writing teaching books! Check us out in Action!!!! 
Using our sentence starters!
Checking our word walls and "How I can teach my readers?" Chart
How I wrote my teaching book!
Planning my writing across my fingers!
Our class tools we can use!
Today we had a Robotic Demo assembly! We learned how some of our GCS 5th and 6th graders built robots and the challenges they faced making them carry a penny! It was super awesome! 
Some of the designs!
Wow!
It rolled super far!!!
Look at it go!
WHAT: First grade Winter Celebration Treat Sign-up
When: December 23rd, 2014 at 2:00pm Where: Miss Gleason’s 1st grade Classroom Join us for a fun craft and winter celebration! Sign up for bringing in a treat on our Google doc! |
