Mrs. Ginn's First Grade

 4-26-19

Garden Party Today 1-4pm!

We will be painting our Auction Art items tomorrow. Please send your child in play clothes. We will try not to get our clothes full a paint...but you know how that goes!

We are hard at work in first grade...Occidental Young Writer's stories and poems, nature journals, dragon stories, animal reports, native plant study, and much more!

This week in garden students harvested fava, pulled weeds, and shoveled/moved wood chips.

We began our unit on Native plants, trees, animals, and insects from our place here at Harmony. Miss Kristen, our PBL teacher on campus came Thursday. We are working with her to add to the Dragon Playground. The kids are concerned about the tagging of a few trees in that area, so she has invited Harold, a local naturalist that tagged the trees to come in and explain the plan he has for taking care of our forest on May 3rd. We are also nature journaling. Point out these trees and see if your child can identify them: madrone, bay, tan oak, redwood, live oak.

We started typing club last week. To access at home, go to the Harmony Website, go to student resources, then to symbaloo. Ginn Typing icon will be on screen. Username and password is the same as Lexia (lower case first name and first letter of last name

Field Trip to Petaluma Wildlife Rescue: May 17th
Drivers:
Dawn 5
Dana 5
Sarah and Justin 5
Vanessa 3
**********We need 1 more driver

Coming up:
May 17  Field trip to Petaluma Wildlife Rescue
May 19 ARK Auction at CYO
May 23  Ice Cream Social and Open House
May 24 Peanuts Naturally on Campus-Science Stations outside
May 31 Student Appreciation Day-No Kites this year...We are doing a "field day" inspired experience
June 3rd CYO field trip to swim 1st-3rd graders (walking field trip)
June 4 Last Day of School 12:05

dginn@harmonyusd.org
Our classroom website   http://ginnkinder.weebly.com

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