Spirit Week

This week is Harlan's Annual Spirit Week!  Please see the below schedule for the daily themes!

Monday - Pajama Day - Get comfy, and wear your jimmies and slippers too!
Tuesday - Mismatch Day - Wear your plaids with your stripes, mismatched socks and mismatched shoes!
Wednesday - No theme in observance of Yom Kippur 
Thursday - Wacky Hair Day - Mousse it, gel, tease it, curl...just don't cut it without permission :)  How wacky can you get?
Friday - Harlan Spirit Day - Wear your class shirt, your Husky wear, or just some blue and white to show you're proud to be a Harlan Husky!

Schedule for the Week of 10/10 - 10/14

Monday (A) - Art & Music
Tuesday (B) - Media Center
Wednesday (C) - Music
Thursday (D) - PE
Friday (A) - Art & Music

Please remember to return library books on days we visit the media center and bring gym shoes on days we have PE.

Musical Call and Echo

Mrs. A Cooper recently upload a recording of each first grade class using instruments to create a call and echo sequence.  The children had a wonderful time exploring the different instruments!  Please use the below link to visit the Harlan Music website to listen to the recordings

http://harlanmusicroom.weebly.com/1st-grade-creations.html

Farm Field Trip

If you have not signed and returned your child's farm field trip permission slip, please complete and return this in your child's yellow folder.  Please let me know if you need another copy of the form.

Small Moments

Today we learned about writing small moment stories.  We talked about how a small moment is a true story that happened to you that was just a little piece of your day.  Our mini lesson focused on pretending our stories were watermelons.  A whole watermelon is a very large idea that has lots of little stories inside.  A slice of the watermelon discusses one of the topics from the big idea.  One seed of the slice represent one small moment from your big idea.  Here is our anchor chart to help us remember how to take a big idea and find a small moment from it to write about.  Notice how the idea became smaller each time!

Constitution Day

In September, all children across our country learn about and celebrate Constitution Day!  As part of our learning, our grade level created our very own First Grade Constitution!

Exploring Solids

This past week we been our first science unit - Solids, Liquids and Gases.  We have been learning all about the properties of a solid, or ways to describe solid objects.  Words we have learned and used include flexible, rigid, rough, smooth, flat, pointed, hard, soft and has color.  Each of the children began with a Discovery bag for them to explore.  The bag consisted of a verity of different solid objects that represented the properties we are discussing.

On Friday, we became engineers and used our new knowledge of solids to design and build structures using materials such as screws, rubber bands, paper cups, straws, fabric, plastic tubing, Popsicle sticks, tin foil, cardboard and wire.  Here we are building before we entered the Kefgen Museum of Engineering to observe how others used the solids to construct.

We are really looking forward to exploring the properties of liquids this week!