Weeks of Oct. 15 and Oct. 21

Skillin first graders enjoyed a fun-filled trip to Alewives Brook Farm last week! We could not have asked for better weather, either. Students enjoyed learning about many different vegetables and how to properly pick them. Students picked kale, beets, peppers, potatoes and carrots. At the end, we walked through the pumpkin patch to pick our very own pumpkins. Thank you so much to Caitlin Jordan for all of her efforts in planning this trip for us, as well as Jaedra Rideout and her Memorial Middle School students for creating personalized veggie buckets for all 66 first graders!

Math

We continued to work with two-dimensional shapes in our geometry unit. Students had lots of practice composing 2D shapes out of other 2D shapes. For example, they could come up with 5 or more ways to make a hexagon! We also began to look at the attributes of shapes. Students sorted a set of shapes based on certain attributes, such as the number of sides or whether it had curved or straight lines. They are beginning to understand that there are defining and non-defining attributes of shapes. For example, a triangle must have three sides and three vertices to be a triangle, but it can be any color, size or orientation.

Upcoming Date

• There is no school on Monday, November 11th for Veteran's Day
• K-3 students will go to the high school for a "Kinderkonzert" on Monday, November 18th. The bus will leave right at 9:15 so please make sure your child is on time and ready to go!
• Parent-Teacher Conferences are scheduled for Thursday, November 14th and Wednesday, November 20th. Sign up forms were sent home in red totes. Please return your form as soon as possible. I will confirm your day and time next week.

Thank you,

Mrs. Bradstreet