Hat Day

Spirit Week!

Next week (Nov. 18 - 22) is spirit week at Fairview!  

Monday- crazy sock day

Tuesday- hat day

Wednesday- favorite sport team day

Thursday- twin day

Friday- pajama day

Artful Learning

Last week we began our first Artful Learning Unit focused around Hoagy Charmichael's song Lazy River.  You can listen to the song here:  http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T7yCYXfTA3g. 

The first graders will study the concept of relationships as we continue through the inquiry centers in this unit.  

We will ask ourselves how our relationships with others and the world around us affect us. 

Today Mr. Grimme, our music teacher, visited our class and Ms. Parmenter's class came too. Mr. Grimme taught

us about beat and rhythm and why Hoagy's song is considered a jazz song.  Then, he played other versions of 

Lazy River by other famous artists like B.B. King and Michael Buble.  The first graders realized that the words 

were the same, but each song sounded a little different!  

Happy Halloween!

VIPs. 11/1/13

Halloween pictures coming soon!  (Mrs. Guinn's house lost power during the storm, so no photos were uploaded ....hopefully tonight!)

Usually we have 2 or 3 VIPs from our class each week.  However, this week we had SIX!  What a fantastic crew of kids!  Mrs, Guinn picked 2 VIPs, 3 specials teachers picked VIPs from our room, and a math teacher picked someone from our class too!  Take a look!

Reading Stamina

We have been working on our "reading stamina" during our reading block each morning for several months.  The children read "good fit books" - books that can be read by them, independently, with only a few errors.  Today, my reading group read for 17 minutes independently!  We are getting close to our 20 minute goal!   The children also work on writing, work with words, practice their fluency, work on vocabulary, listen to reading, work on reading comprehension, and much, much more during 105 minute reading block each morning!!

look!

"Look!  It's snowing!"  ....and a stampede to the window.