Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Our class had a wonderful morning of singing, playing and eating; we even celebrated Ace's birthday! I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 

Family Game Night

Calling all families! PTA is sponsoring a Family Game Night on Thursday, December 19. This fun, free event will include food and prizes from Santa! This is a perfect opportunity for the family to spend some quality time together, visit with other Cannon families and see the big man himself, Santa! If you are planning to attend, please return the bottom portion of the green PTA flier.

Our Water Color "Homes For The Holidays"

Scholars used water color paint to add some color to their house ornaments.

"Homes For The Holidays"

For our annual community service project, Cannon scholars are raising money to donate to a local chapter of Habitat for Humanity. Scholars will be using the Engineering Desing Process to create an ornament. The theme for this project is "Homes For the Holidays". Ornaments will be displayed on grade level trees and will be "sold" for a suggested donation of $2.00. All proceeds will go directly to Habitat for Humanity.

Holiday Traditions Around The World

 With the help of Mrs. Berumen and Mrs. Goins we are researching how different countries around the world celebrate this holiday season.

Blade Designs

Cheers and celebrations filled the classroom as Scholars shared their blade designs that they created with their parents during Family STEM Night. 

Team Work!

Aubri, Ace, Adriana and Hudson worked together to make a structure that is taller than Mrs. Anderson.

Cannon Cubs Food Drive

Cannon Elementary is sponsoring a food drive to benefit local families for the holidays. First Grade is collecting: instant potatoes, canned fruit and canned tuna. Donations will be collected November 4th-December 13th.

Technology

At first we thought that technology was things that have batteries, wires or use electricity. But now we know that technology is almost anything created to solve a problem or meet a need.

Happy Halloween!

Fall Festival

Come join the fun at Cannon this Saturday, October 26th, noon to 3:00 pm! 

Fire Safety Program

iHaveBetterThingsToDo than Drugs

During the week of October 28-November 1st, our school will be participating in Red Ribbon Week. The purpose of this week is to remind our scholars about the dangers of drug usage. Listed below are the various activities/themes for our school.

Monday: Fishing, wear a shirt with a fish on it, fishing hat, or fishing vest.

Tuesday: Sports, wear a jersey or sports team shirt

Wednesday:  Beach, wear lei, Hawaiian shirt, grass skirt or flip flops

Thursday:  Camping, wear camp, hiking boots, flannel, sweats, or PJ's

Friday: Gardening, wear RED and gardening hat, gloves or sunglasses

Exploring Movement

Today our class went to the Engineering Lab to explore different types of movement. Our exploration began with the scholars sharing what they knew about movement with our STEM coach, Mrs. Brenegan. Scholars then explored back and forth, round and round, fast/slow, straight and zig zag and up and down. Several scholars discovered that some items move in more than one way!

Standard Based Report Card Meeting

WHEN: Tuesday, October 15

WHERE: Cannon library

TIME: 5:00-5:45

Please join the first grade teachers as they share the new Standards Based Report Card. You will learn how the new report card is different from the previous report card. We will also share all the positive benefits of using a Standards Based Reporting System. We look forward to seeing on the 15th!

Exploring with Magnets

Scholars began a new unit of study, magnets. Today, the scholars were engaged in three different challenges involving magnets. In one, they were to make the longest magnetized paper clip chain. In another, the goal was to make a magnet float without touching anything. Finally, scholars were to find a way to make a nail or paper clip magnetic.

More Terrific Graph Projects!

The remainder of the scholars who completed the graphing project challenge presented today! All of the scholars who participated did a terrific job!

Our Graph Projects

We began presenting our Graphing Projects to the class. Victor, Preslee, Sutton, Hudson and Adriana shared their projects.

Christmas in September!

The Grapevine Church of Christ brought Christmas to Cannon a little early this year! The church granted the first grade team's wish for engineering supplies. Thanks to Grapevine Church of Christ, we have a fantastic stockpile of supplies!

Windsocks

Scholars worked with a partner to design and create a windsock. Each pair was given a budget of 20 pennies to purchase their materials. Scholars followed the Engineering Process of: imagine, plan, design, test/improve and share. Many pairs were successful the first time!

We had a Watch D.O.G., Mr. Duncan!

Important Dates!

Saturday, September 21st:  Back To School Cookout!  The Dad's Club is hosting this event. The time is: 12:00 - 3:00.  Come for fun!
Wednesday, September 25th:  Early Release Day @ 11:45
Thursday, September 26th:  Early Release Day @ 11:45
Wednesday, October 2nd:  Picture Day

Learning Targets

Spelling:  Our focus in spelling will be the CVC short /a/ pattern.  Examples of this pattern are: man, tap, hat, sad.  Scholars can practice this spelling pattern at home by clicking on the sidebar link to Spelling City.  There are many fun and engaging games for the scholars to play.

Reading:  Our focus will be 'I can use pictures to retell a story'.  We will also discuss how to use a Flow-Map to retell.  I will begin the BoY reading assessment using the DRA2.  This assessment will help me learn your scholar's independent and instructional reading levels. 

Writing:  Our focus will be, 'I can proofread to correct a target skill'.  Scholars will be proofreading their writing to ensure they are using the writing concepts taught in Kindergarten.  Scholars will check for:  capital letter at the beginning, correct letter size and formation, spacing between words, end punctuation, the use of I, the correct use of Kindergarten In a Snap words.

Math:  Scholars will begin a 5 week study of Number Sense to 50.  Scholars will show what numbers look like using objects/pictures, they will write a number to match the representation, represent a number using groups of 10's and 1's, instantly tell how many I see (quick images), use mathematical language to: compare groups of objects and to compare numbers.  *This is not an all inclusive list.

Science:  Our focus will be weather.  Scholars will observe weather conditions using their senses, use tools such as wind socks and thermometers to gather weather data then take this data and record in charts, tables and graphs.

Design Challenge:  Scholars will work in pairs to design and create a wind sock.  We will also incorporate money by putting a price on each material.  Scholars will be given a certain amount of money (pennies) for the purchasing of materials.  Scholars will follow the engineering planning process to complete this challenge.  Stay tuned for pictures!

Let's WIN!

The class with the highest percentage of members to join PTA will win certificates for a visit to Urban Air Trampoline Park.  The deadline to join PTA is September 20th.  The winning class will be announced at the Back to School Bash on September 21st, another great reason to attend this fun afternoon!  Let's be the winning class!!!!

To make things really easy, click here to join PTA:  www.cannonpta.membershiptoolkit.com the cost is $8 per member.

Support our fantastic PTA and help our class win! 

PTA Information

"Back to School Bash" will be Saturday, September 21:  12-3:00.  The awesome Dad's Club will be cooking hotdogs.

PTA is now selling our new school T-shirt.  The order forms went home in your child's binder. 

If you haven't joined PTA please do so soon!  Our PTA provides so many wonderful activities for our scholars not to mention all the incredible support they give to our school.  I would love for our class to have 100% participation!  Thank you!

We Are Off To A Fantastic Start!

Here are few highlights of our first days........