This week in First grade...

Jan 20-23 What a nice treat to have an extra day this weekend. I hope you were able to spend it with your family! My girls had their first cousins sleepover at their Nana's house. Lily, my three year old, and Ella, my 3 year old niece, got to join Lyla for the first time. They were so excited to be at Nana's house that they woke up at 6am! REMINDERS Monday: MLK Day. Student and Staff Holiday. Tuesday: Tuesday folders come home. Please return signed Tuesday folders on Wednesday morning. No math homework this week. Wednesday: Caraway Science Fair Thursday: 7:45am Coffee and Conversation with Mrs. Bailey Friday: Homework is due Library Day. All library books are due by 8:00 AM READING This week we will learn how to do research to find about information that we are interested in. Researches choose a topic they are interested in and they think about what specific information they want to know about their topic. Researches look at different books to find information and they record important information in an organized way. WRITING In writing, we will continue writing expository texts. We will think about topics that we are expert at and write factual information about our topics. Our main purpose is to teach others. So we will make sure to include any details that we know about our topics. MATH This week we will start Geometry. We will identify two-dimensional shapes, including circles, triangles, rectangles, and squares as special rectangles, rhombuses, and hexagons, and describe their attributes/characteristics. We will create two-dimensional shapes with different manipulatives and also compose shapes by joining two, three, or four, figures to produce a target shape in more than one way. SCIENCE In science we will continue to investigate different seasons, different weather in each season including relative temperature, such as hot or cold, clear or cloudy, calm or windy, rainy or icy. We will discuss types of weather information and ways that scientists gather and record weather data.