Monday, March 30, 2015

This week in First grade...

March 30-April 2


Thank you so much for all of you who came and ran with us at Shamrock'n Roll Run.  The children had so much fun seeing their family members.  Keep up that healthy lifestyle!


Here are a few reminders for this week:

 REMINDERS
Monday: Homework Folders come home.
Tuesday: Tuesday folders and report cards come home.  Please sign the report card envelope and return it the next day.  Thank you!
Wednesday:  Return Tuesday folders and Report Card Envelopes.
Thursday: **Library Day**  All library books are due by 8:00 AM
Friday: Spring Holiday



READING and WRITING
We will continue our research on chicks.  The children are very excited since we now have a few eggs in our incubators and we are expecting them to hatch in less than three weeks (April 13th or 14th)! We are recording the facts that we learn and also jot down our "wonder" questions.  The "wonder" questions will encourage us to do more research and find out more.  So far, we have been learning about the body parts of chicks, and their life cycle.  This week we will delve into this and find out about how a chick grows inside an egg, where chicks live and what they eat.


MATH
We will continue working on telling time to the hour and this week we will focus on telling time to half-hour.  We will look at both analog and digital clocks and learn that time is shown differently on each of these clocks.  The short hand in the analog clock points to the "hour" and the long hand points to the "minute".  In digital clock time is shown by digits.  The digit before the two dots shows the hour and the digits after two dots show the minute.   



SCIENCES
This week in science we will focus on living things and their offspring. We will learn that the offspring usually resemble their parents, although they are often called differently.   We have been learning about the inter-dependency of living things in their ecosystem for the past couple of weeks. This week we will move on to simple food chains.  We will learn how the plants are the producers, and can make their own food but the other living things either depend on each other or the plants for food.  

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