This week in First grade...

March 28-April 1 Reminders: Tuesday Folders: Yan Zuo Tuesday Parent: Elizabeth Pooler Important dates: Report Cards go home- Tuesday, March 29th March 31st- Family Science Night April 5th and 6th- 5th grade TAKS- No Parents in the Building April 13th- Family Night at California Pizza Kitchen April 22nd - No School April 25th-28th TAKS- No Parents in the Building May 4th - Family Night at Catfish Parlour This week in Reading workshop we are learning about Retelling. We will practice retelling familiar stories and then practice retelling stories we read. This week in Writing Workshop we are focusing on completing the writing process. We will write stories Monday-Wednesday, on Thursday we will Edit and Revise. Then on Friday we share our published stories during Author's Chair. In Word Work this week we are working with the soft c sound. Regular words: city, cent, race, ice, face, nice Enrichment words: recess, decide, grocery, excited, advice, replace Challenge words: process, fraction Sight word vocabulary: may, because, about, of, off In Math this week we are learning about Fractions. Today we made a folding Fractions book to show whole, halves and quarters. We will learn about making fractions and describing sets of objects with fractions. In Science we are working on our Research/Habitat project. To extend the research idea from the at home project we are researching animals in different habitats and drawing pictures of animals and plants to make our habitat murals. **Notes about the at home project: Your child checked out a book from the library last week. I recommended that the students bring their book home. The book they choose is the animal they will complete their project on. Some students have printed information from Searchasaurus (a search engine on the library resource webpage) about their animal. The students have been working on taking notes from their library book. This will be the research they bring home tomorrow (Tuesday) in their folders. Please note, some students choose a different animal to research at school and will not have information for their at home project.

Have a good week!

Mrs. Caballero