Mrs Hossack’s First Graders

Lego

by Christopher

Cubes and Bricks

4 bumps

8 bumps

10 bumps

Little bricks

build together

to make

BIG things

Chinese New Year

by Samuel

BOOM BOOM

Chinese New Year

Fireworks

Scaring away

Bad spirits

Boom Boom

KA BAM!!!

Isn’t this the best looking group of first graders you have ever seen?

Happy Chinese New Year Everyone!!!  I hope you have a restful, happy holiday whether you stay at home in Shanghai or travel somewhere new.

Remember that Thursday is a half day and Friday is a Professional Development Day for teachers only.

See you on the 22nd of February!!  Gong Xi Fa Cai!

Dear Students,

Our Marc Brown author study is over.  Soon we will be studying a new author named Robert Munsch.

Please leave a comment on our blog to tell me some things you learned about Marc Brown and some things you loved about the Arthur books.

Thank you,

Mrs Hossack

Attention First Graders!!!!

Please click on this Sneetch.

It will take you to Mrs Wild’s blog.  From there you can go to the Sneetch Secret Page to learn  all about the first grade production about Sneeches.

Have Fun!!!

A compound word is made when two words are joined to form a new word.

This week in spelling we are being word detectives and looking for compound words in the books in our classroom.

Here are some we found today:

bathroom

shoelace

friendship

snowball

underpants

sunflower

bedtime

afternoon

Try and think of 5 compound words at home and leave them as a comment on the blog and we will check them in class.

Click here to play a fun game about compound words!

Tomorrow is TREAT DAY!!!!  Bring your 5RMB for a yummy treat!

Friday is another fund raising day.  See the poster below.

Yesterday was Groundhog Day in America and Canada.  1AH visited the Official Groundhog Day website to learn about what happened.  Legend says when the groundhog comes out of his hole on February 2nd he can predict the weather.  If the groundhog sees his shadow there will be six more weeks of winter.  If the groundhog does not see his shadow, winter will end soon.

In America, the groundhog saw his shadow which means six more weeks of winter.

1AH looked outside and decided that if there was a groundhog in our playground he would NOT have seen his shadow which means winter will be over soon.

If you would like to play a goofy snowball game with the groundhog, click on the words Groundhog Day at the top of this post!

Dear Parents,

Please take a few minutes to complete the parent survey.

The survey can be accessed through the SAS Community Portal at http://powerschool.saschina.org.

For Chinese click here http://gallery.mailchimp.com/1e2c001e7323bba58b5fbf241/files/SurveyinfoChinese.pdf
For Korean click here http://gallery.mailchimp.com/1e2c001e7323bba58b5fbf241/files/SurveyinfoKorean.pdf

Thank you very much for your help and support.

Regards,

Amy Hossack

Today is the 100th day of school!!

We had a big celebration.  In one room we drew what we think we will look like in 100 years. In one room we made a booklet about 100s.  In one room we ate popcorn and worked together to reassemble a 100s grid, and in 1AH we made towers with 100 cups.

Please watch the following slide show:
Zero the Hero on PhotoPeach

Last week I asked the boys and girls in 1AH to spend 5 minutes writing about solids. I asked them to write the word solids and then list all the solids they could think of and all the words describing solids they could think of. We did the same for liquids.

Next, I typed in all their results and put them into a web-based program called Wordle.  Wordle is a magical little tool that turns words into word clouds.  The more times a word is written, the larger it will appear in the cloud.

What solids did our first graders name most?

What liquids did our first graders name most frequently?