Dear Parents,

Happy Thursday! The seeds are planted!   Hooray!  Many, many thanks to Wyatt’s grandparents that were able to come help us plant and teach us some things about gardening! We are ALL learning and I am grateful to be learning too! Now we just need some rain…..like a good, hard, rain to saturate the ground.  I don’t want to ruin anyone’s long weekend, but please pray for some rain.  

In Math we have been learning about geometry….plane figures (which are flat shapes; squares, triangles, circles, rectangles, etc….) and solid figures (which are figures that have dimension; cubes, spheres, cones, pyramids, etc…).  Quiz your firstie about these real life shapes and solid figures that are all around….especially practice the vocabulary (sphere is a hard one for first graders…it usually comes out “spear”).  

Here are a few pictures of their creations with some plane shapes….can you guess what they are?  

A "lantern"

A "dog"

"The sun setting behind the mountains"

This week was our last week for spelling and so we practiced writing our words outside….with sidewalk chalk!  It was messy fun!  

A few weeks ago, I was asked, “Miss Gallagher, are you going to be bringing in your birthday treat?  Because, you know, your birthday is in June, but we won’t be here for it….” LOL.  So yesterday, I did.  Did your firstie tell you about what I brought in?  It was kind of a fun and different treat!  Each student made a “candy” (pretzels, gummy life savers, and fruit loops) necklace that they could eat throughout the day. However,  most didn’t last more than an hour….ha!

These last few weeks have been great! 

 Enjoy your long weekend!

Love, Miss Gallagher