Announcements and Updates

Monday, October 19, 2015
We are busy learning here in Room 15. Here are a few announcements to keep you up to date!
  • Homework: A homework reading bag came home tonight along with a letter outlining the homework reading procedures. You can see the homework note here.
  • Newsletter: I was absent on Friday and the newsletter did not get in the student's Friday Folders. It went home in their backpack today! Please make sure you read it. It is full of very important first grade information. Also, the Unit 2 Fundations newsletter went home in their backpack today. This is very helpful when helping your students with their reading and writing
  • Conferences: Conferences will take place November 10-13. Please send back the conference scheduling form by Wednesday, October 21. This sheet went home in last week's Friday Folder. 
  • Book Order: Our second book order went home last week. This is a great way to provide your child with resources for reading at home! There are so many books available for under $3. Check them out here. This book order will be due on Friday, October 23. You may order online with our classroom code or send your order to school with cash or check. Onlne classroom code: L4QGV
  • Snack: If you have not provided snack in for the month of October, please do so this week! :) This is technically the fourth week of October. Next week, we will eat leftover snack and start the new snack schedule on November 2. You can always access the snack schedule from our website. Snack Schedule  Thanks SO much!! 
Let me know if you have any questions or concerns. I am always available by phone or email! Have a great week!! 

aholt@cpsk12.org
573-214-3290
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CPS Zoo

Thursday, October 08, 2015
CPS has an AMAZING program through the science department. It is called CPS Zoo!  Each week we get a brand new stuffed animal sent to us in the mail. Every week, we get to spend that week learning about that animal. Getting our new animal is one of the highlights of our week. We have learned so much!

On Monday, when our animal arrives, we get to read the clues on the outside of the box and try to guess our animal. Our lion says ROARRRRR!!!!

Along with our animal, we get books about the animal, learning links and a tape measure to see how big our animal is in real life. A lion is the length of about two first graders! Wow!!



Usually we are able to find a live camera that we can watch! We've watched elephants at the San Diego Zoo, lions at the National Zoo and stingrays at the Georgia Aquarium! As we do our research, we make sure to put all of our facts into our CPS Zoo Animal Research Notebook. This will be a great collection of animal facts at the end of the year.



Each week we get to learn how to draw our animal too! Here is one of our lions.

Here are a few more of our adventures with the CPS Zoo.














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