Upcoming Events:
October 15th – Reminagine Middle School Night 6:00 – 8:00 P.M. (4th & 5th Grade Families Only)
October 18th – Talent Show Videos due to Mr. Alex!
We are excited to announce that our WCDS Tallent Show will be shared as a Viewing Party during our 29 Hours of Giving November 13th – 14th! To ensure we have videos in and compiled in time, please send all submissions by October 18th. Videos should be no longer than 60 seconds and sent to talentshow@wcdsedu.com. Please email Mr. Alex at ahill@wcdsedu.com with any questions!
–October 18th – 9:00 am Coffee Conversations on Main Campus
–October 19th – 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, Fall Campus Refresh! Volunteer for a few hours by swinging by 8 Park Road with gardening gloves to help freshen our campus. Lunch and refreshments will be provided!
–October 22nd – Students are encouraged to wear pink to show support for Breast Cancer Awareness this Tuesday! Donations will be collected by classroom teachers and sent to local breast care centers.
–October 24th– First Grade Field Trip to Simmons Farm (more information to come soon)
–October 31st – 9:15 Whole School Halloween Parade. Students should come to school dressed in costume and bring a change of casual clothes to change into afterward.
First grade is ready for Fall! We love starting our morning with poetry recitation. The students are doing a great job with fluency and expression with our Fall poems!
Gavin the Gator made his appearance in first grade this week. Students learned that Gavin likes to eat GREATER numbers. They used math talk to compare numbers and by the end of they week they became masters at ordering numbers from least to greatest and greatest to least. Ask your child if they can tell you “WHY” a number is greater than another!
This week we UNLOCKED two new secrets!! Students learned that when “c” and “h” get together they make one sound and they “Chugga Chugga like a choo choo train!” They also learned that when “s” and “h” are together at the library they tell everyone to be quiet by making the “sh” sound. Our class LOVES unlocking new secrets and they are excited to unlock more digraphs next week.
We have continued our Deep Dive on community helpers. This week students had the opportunity to rotate to various centers around our entire building. Students were assigned a community helper and were tasked with making a tool their helper would use out of PERLER Beads!
We hope you all have a wonderful weekend!
Danielle & Karen
