Tu Bishvat!

In First Grad today we celebrated Tu Bishvat-the Birthday of the trees!

We started off our day with making our very own fruit salad with all different fruits the children brought  into school.

In addition each child decorated their own Tu Bishvat tree using their creativity and labeling the parts of tree in Hebrew!

We than all gathered together for a special Tu Bishvat Festival! At the  festival, everyone had a chance to taste from all the Shivas Haminim-Seven Fruits that grow in Israel, sing songs and most excitingly, have a piece of the Chocolate Tree Cake!!!!

(You can ask your children to sing to you their favorite Tu Bishvat song!)

Morah Mushky

Our First Publishing Party ..

In First Grade we have been working a lot on writing. I am very proud to say that our first graders have published their very first piece of writing. The first step was to  discuss things we are interested in, as well as things we love, and like to do. I modeled for the class how to turn those discussions  into a list and from there the writing process began. The kids learned how to write across pages, with lots of detail and content. Once they finished writing their first draft, I taught them what it means to edit and revise. This is part of the writing process, before a piece can be published. Once each child was confident they were happy with their piece, they made a cover page. Next we had a grand celebration where the kids enjoyed snacks, and read what they wrote in the Author's Chair. 


Morah Gaby 

 Shimon wrote about the Human Body

 Yonni wrote about Space

 Nate wrote about sports

 Sammy wrote about the Zoo 

 Alan wrote about Hanukkah

 Emy wrote about Africa & Russia

 Zaylin wrote about LegoLand

 Felix wrote about Hanukkah 

 Jonathan wrote about Space

 Ariella wrote about Israel 

 Jacky wrote about Princesses

 Ariel wrote about Vacation

 Simon wrote about a Trip 

Dov wrote about Lions.... 

Game Time

After a long week of learning the kids really deserve a break.. on Friday for the last fifteen minutes of class they were able to have some relaxing game time fun...

Morah Gaby 

Update :)))

First Grade has been doing an amazing job in Reading, Writing, and Math... Below you will find a little update on all the things we have covered thus far. First grade is working really hard and I am extremely proud of their accomplishments. 

Morah Gaby

In Reading Workshop we have covered the following units:

• Launching Reading Workshop
• Text Features
• Print Strategies & Predicting

In Writing Workshop we have covered the following units: 

• How Writers Work & Published a Piece of Writing
• How To (working on currently)

Math: 

• Number 0-10
• Number Bonds
• Addition
• Subtraction
• Position
• Numbers to 20
• Length
• Comparing Numbers
• Graphs
• Numbers to 40
• Place value

Phonics:

• Long Vowels: a,e,i

Grammar:

• Sentence Structure
• Telling Sentences
• Punctuation
• Nouns
• Action Sentences
• Naming Sentences

If you have any questions please e-mail me: morahgaby@mazeldayschool.com

We made Butter!

First grade has been learning all about Pilgrim children and their chores. Part of their chore were tying the bundles of wheat, cleaning the animal pens, churning butter, serving meals, collecting eggs from the chickens, etc. We compared our lives today to those of the Pilgrim children. We all agreed things are a lot easier today!
To get a feel of putting in hard work in order to get our food, the children made butter! We poured heavy cream into a container and everyone had to shake it for a while. When it was ready, we spread it on crackers and enjoyed a tasty treat! After, the children went back to their desks and made pictures of a chore the Pilgrims did and wrote a sentence about it.