Mrs. Vella's 1st Grade Super Stars

*Every student that signs up to run in 5K walk/run or Fun Run will be entered in a drawing for a Kindle Fire (one winner for Elementary and one winner for Jr. High)

*The grade that has the most students sign up to participate will receive a Pizza Party from POQA. K-5, and 6-9th will each have one party.  

Click here to register online: 5K and Fun Run Registration

Or to print a registration form click here: 5k Registration

Last Friday we attended a special Veteran’s Day Assembly with the Crismer’s and their war dog Mazzie from Mission K-9 Rescue. We learned about the sacrifices many dogs are making to protect the lives of our soldiers.  Unfortunately, these dogs are left behind after their work is done. Mission K-9 Rescue is striving to Rescue, Reunite, Re-Home, Rehabilitate and Repair any retired working dog that has served mankind in some capacity.

This year for one of our service learning projects we will be collecting coins to donate to Mission K-9 Rescue. 

As a First Grade we will be learning that everyone can serve and help others through stories such as “The Lion and the Mouse”. Though our children may be young, they too can make an important difference and our small contributions of a coin here and a few coins there will truly add up to something great.

We are also learning about financial literacy principles; for example, we are learning about the principle of saving and we are learning that, to earn money, one must work.  We are encouraging our students to do extra jobs at home for family or friends to earn coins to add to our Mission K-9 Rescue fund.

Yeah!!! Tomorrow is library day.
Please make sure your student comes with their library book so they can check out a new book. Also, I added a link to for the “Library Reading Challenge” to our class blog.

Last year we were neck to neck with Mrs. Dunmeyer’s class and then, at the very end took second place…I would love for our class to be the first grade winner this year! Yes, I can be a little competitive, but it’s such a great challenge with a fun reward at the end right? Please help our class out by adding your weekly reading minutes. It won’t take but a minute or two…











WHERE IN THE WORLD WILL READING TAKE YOU?”

This year for the library’s reading challenge, we will submit reading minutes to travel across the continents. At the end of the year one class per grade will win the fabulous prize for the most reading minutes. In addition, the student(s) with the most reading minutes will qualify for a prize.

What is your role in this reading challenge?  Simply click on the “Library Reading Challenge” tab on our class blog and complete the online form each week.  Because these reading minutes will only be available to the librarian,  you will still need to complete our regular reading log to receive homework credit for reading.

WOW!!!  I am sorry for the mix-up with the time slots. I am not sure why all the times were the same but have now fixed the problem. I apologize for inconvenience this may have caused. 
The following is a list who I have coming as well as the time slot:
3:20 Lucas
3:35 Journey
3:50 Kasen
4:05
4:20 Bristol

You won’t regret looking for the moon this coming Sunday for your Moon Journal because we’re about to see a record-breaking supermoon! The moon will rise in the east on Sunday, November 13 at 5:04 PM and set in the west on November 14 at 7:06 AM.  The best views usually occur when the moon is sitting closer to the horizon because trees, buildings, and other foreground objects create a moon illusion and it looks especially large.  Read more about it here:
http://www.sciencealert.com/we-re-about-to-see-a-record-breaking-supermoon-the-biggest-and-brightest-in-nearly-70-years