This week in First Grade...

Reminders...
Parent Input Forms are due by Monday, May 17th.

Fairy Tale parade will be Wednesday, May 19th at 11:00am

End of Year Progress Reports will go home on Monday, May 17th and are due back Friday, May 21st.

Field Day is Wednesday, May 26th 8:15am- Please send your child with sunscreen on, a hat and tennis shoes. They may want to bring an extra pair of clothes to change into if they get sweaty!

Last day of school- May 28th!

*Cafeteria note: Students need to carry a balance in their lunch accounts for the remainder of the year. No lunches will be charged. If you child does not have enough money in their account they will have a cheese sandwich.*

Principal's Pride...
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!
Maci C.
Maci has been very brave all year. I'm so proud of how she comes into school independently!
Adalisse L.
Adalisse works hard and always does her best! Adalisse is a great friend to her classmates!

In Reader's Workshop...
This will be our last week with Take home readers. We will be reading a variety of stories for this week.

In Writer's Workshop...
During writer's workshop we are working on writing our own fairy tale. We will be working through the writing process by brainstorming, making a rough draft, revising, editing and creating our final draft. We will share our fairy tale the day we are dressed up for our fairy tale parade. The Fairy Tale parade will be Wednesday, May 19th at 11:00am. There will be a note in your child's Monday folder!

In Word Work...
We are assessing 1st grade sight words for the next 4 weeks!

Spelling words: going, got, had, has, have, he, her, him, his, house, how, I, if, in, into, is, it, it's, just, like, little, look, make, man, many

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 Social Studies...
We are beginning our unit on Folktales, Tall Tales and Legends. We will learn about the elements of each and how they are related. We will read many different stories from each genre and work on a comprehension based activity to follow the story.

Have a great week!
Mrs. Caballero