Monday, May 3, 2010

This week in first grade...

Reminders...

Early Release- May 5th

Last day of school- May 28th!

Principal's Pride...

John A.
John has worked very hard this year! He helped us all learn more about Jaguars during our animal research.

Dinah B.
Dinah is a talented writer. She works with her writing partner and helps give her "good feelings" about her writing. What a great friend!

In Reader's Workshop...
We are books about Community workers! We will be celebrating Career Day on Friday and discussing what we want our career's to be in the future!

In Writer's Workshop...
During writer's workshop we are working on revising stories by rereading, adding details, adding adjectives and even adding details to our pictures. We are paying special attention to spelling our word wall words correctly and write all sentences with correct capitalization and punctuation.

In Word Work...
We are assessing 1st grade sight words for the next 4 weeks!
Spelling words: a, about, after, all, an, and, are, as, at, be, because, been, but, by, came, come, could, day, did, do, down, for, from, get, go

Challenge words: none

In Math...
We will continue our big unit on Addition and Subtraction with problem solving. The students will be solving problems to help them prepare for 2nd grade!

In Science...
We are continuing our unit on Plants. This week we are focusing on interdependance. How do plants help animals in certain habitats! We will learn about plants in the desert, rainforest, artic regions, plains, and the ocean.


Have a great week!
Mrs. Caballero

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