Holiday Service Project

Hello Families!
      This year for our holiday service project the 1st grade team has decided to serve those closest to us: fellow students at Hawthorn! We will be visiting every classroom K-6th grade and cleaning their desks with disinfecting wipes and leaving a note with a candy cane in their desk as a fun surprise! The 1st graders LOVE wiping desks before the end of the day (now you can have them do it at home....I promise they love it at school!) and it'll be neat to teach them that service doesn't have to be for unknown people but we can serve our neighbors as well. We are asking each family to try and donate a container or two of wipes for this project. Please bring these in by Dec. 12th if you are able.
Thank you!

This week

We won the Road to Success trophy this week! I am so proud of the class! Keep up that great reading! This week we are working on Map skills, counting back to subtract, and learning our phonogram rules. The kids know what list number they are on in phonograms. It's a class goal to have everyone on list 3 or above by December. (List 1=first 20 List 2=second 20, List 3=third 20, List 4= last 10 and review 10).
Thanks for all your support! From parents who grade tests for me at home to star reading tutors, you all make Hawthorn awesome!

Estimation Station

Hi families,
   In an effort to increase student number sense I have decided to create a new activity called Estimation Station where students take guesses as to the amount of items in a jar. I think beginning with 15-20 items and increasing into the hundreds would be good. I am envisioning a new jar every week or so. If you are interested in making some jars, please let me know! Items that could be used: buttons, pennies, erasers, skittles, beans, gumballs etc. The 1st graders will love it! Please let me know how many items are actually in the jar. You can have it back or donate it to our classroom math tool collection. Have a great rest of your week!