What a great beautiful week we have ahead of us! Warm temperatures and bright sunshine! Last weekends "dig" at our OWL (Outdoor Wildlife Lab) went very well! Come by and see everyone's great effort.
Reminders...
-Please send back your child's report card folder if you have not done so.
-Animal Reports are due Monday, April 6th.
-No school this Friday, April 2nd.
-March reading calendars will be removed from the folders on Thursday. Please make sure
you've helped your child record their minutes.
In Reader's workshop this week...
We will be reading stories about habitats and animals. Please remind your child to bring their take home readers back each day. Later this week we will incorporate our learning into our science lesson on habitats and recreate a Rainforest in our classroom. We will also continue our unit on poetry. This week we will learn about Haiku and Limerick. We will write class poems and our own poem for our poem book.
In Writer's workshop...
We will be working on descriptive writing. The students will think of adjectives to use to describe things (animals). At the end of the week the students will write a descriptive paragraph (3-5 sentences) about themselves. Look for these in the hallway!
In Spelling...
Words: find, come, slow, things, night, eat, may, after, again, thank
Challenge words: mammal, fraction
A note will come home today along with your child's pre and post tests from last week! Please look for those in your child's Monday folder.
In Math...
We will continue our unit on Fractions. Today we learned about making fourths. We folded and cut paper to glue into our math notebooks to show fourths. We will begin learning how to describe fractions using the phrase, "____ out of ____ are..." In first grade students are not responsible for writing formal fractions to describe sets of objects. We will practice describing sets of objects using phrases.
In Science...
We are going to learn about Mammals this week! We will read books and write the facts we learn about mammals on our class chart. On Thursday we will begin talking about how animals in specific habitats depend on each other and their surroundings to live.
Have a great week!
Mrs. Caballero
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