March 23-27
REMINDERS
Yay! The kids go back to school tomorrow!! I know everyone is excited! Even me! I'm sure everyone enjoyed an abundance of family time! Spring Break is just a tease for summer!!! Start making those plans now!! 53 days and counting!
Here are a few reminders for this week:
Here are a few reminders for this week:
REMINDERS
Monday: Homework this week will be a reading activity and a math problem solving activity. I will send home a Reading Log so you can track what your child reads and for how long.
Tuesday: Tuesday folders come home. Please return the signed Tuesday folder the next day.
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday:Library Day. All library books are due by 8:00 AM
Tuesday: Tuesday folders come home. Please return the signed Tuesday folder the next day.
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday:Library Day. All library books are due by 8:00 AM
March 27th Shamrock'n Roll Run
SOME NEW EXCITEMENTS IN FIRST GRADE:
It is that time of the year! Each first grade class will be hosting close to a dozen eggs for hatching! This is such an exciting time for our students! Our incubators are up and running. We are expecting our eggs to arrive sometime this week. We will then put the eggs in the incubators and patiently wait for 21 days for the eggs to hatch. This is a part of the animal unit and our first graders will get to observe the life cycle of birds first hand, right in our classroom! It will be an exciting time for all of us! If you or someone you know is interested in giving our sweet chickies homes please let me know!
READING and WRITING
This week we will start an exploratory unit as we research Chicks and Chickens. We will determine what we already think we know about chickens, questions we have, want to learn from a source and stretch our thinking. Readers wonder more as they learn and read more. We will learn how we can go to different sources such as books, reliable internet sources, or asking adults to find out the answers to our questions. In Writing we will continue to record our new findings and learning and put it into a book where others can read it and learn from our research.
We are also finishing up stories we wrote for the kindergarteners. Before spring break we were writing animals stories, both fiction and nonfiction. We wanted our "audience" to either enjoy a story about an animal or learn something from reading a story about an animal. Hopefully these will be finished around Wednesday and we can send them down the hallway!
This week we will start an exploratory unit as we research Chicks and Chickens. We will determine what we already think we know about chickens, questions we have, want to learn from a source and stretch our thinking. Readers wonder more as they learn and read more. We will learn how we can go to different sources such as books, reliable internet sources, or asking adults to find out the answers to our questions. In Writing we will continue to record our new findings and learning and put it into a book where others can read it and learn from our research.
We are also finishing up stories we wrote for the kindergarteners. Before spring break we were writing animals stories, both fiction and nonfiction. We wanted our "audience" to either enjoy a story about an animal or learn something from reading a story about an animal. Hopefully these will be finished around Wednesday and we can send them down the hallway!
MATH
This week we will have a review on some of the concepts that we learned before. We will review the coins (pennies, nickles, dimes and quarters), and their values and attributes. We will also review time to the hour and half-hour. We will include problem solving using money, time as well as addition and subtraction.
SCIENCE
We will continue learning about living and non-living, ecosystem and the inter-dependency of animals and plants in their ecosystem. This week we will focus on birds, their external characteristics and how these characteristics determine where the birds live, what they eat and how they move. We will also learn about the life cycle and the interdependency of birds and other animals and plants in their ecosystem.
This week we will have a review on some of the concepts that we learned before. We will review the coins (pennies, nickles, dimes and quarters), and their values and attributes. We will also review time to the hour and half-hour. We will include problem solving using money, time as well as addition and subtraction.
SCIENCE
We will continue learning about living and non-living, ecosystem and the inter-dependency of animals and plants in their ecosystem. This week we will focus on birds, their external characteristics and how these characteristics determine where the birds live, what they eat and how they move. We will also learn about the life cycle and the interdependency of birds and other animals and plants in their ecosystem.
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