May 18-22
Thanks to everyone who supported our school by coming to the Book Fair! Our Caraway Library raises money during the book fair so Mrs. Letendre can purchase exciting, new books to have for our students to check out in the Library!
Yesterday I was out at a Leadership Retreat with our Academic Leadership Team at IBM. We got a personal tour of the new Mobile Lab and heard all about the wonderful advances in technology that IBM engineers! Our goal is to produce the future workforce of Texas and keep our students current on 21st century skills!
Thanks to everyone who supported our school by coming to the Book Fair! Our Caraway Library raises money during the book fair so Mrs. Letendre can purchase exciting, new books to have for our students to check out in the Library!
Yesterday I was out at a Leadership Retreat with our Academic Leadership Team at IBM. We got a personal tour of the new Mobile Lab and heard all about the wonderful advances in technology that IBM engineers! Our goal is to produce the future workforce of Texas and keep our students current on 21st century skills!
VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION DAY
We are very excited to celebrate our wonderful volunteers this year!
REMINDERS
Tuesday: Tuesday folders come home. Please sign and return it the next day. Thank you!
Wednesday:
Thursday: Volunteer Appreciation Day!
Friday: Classroom Library will close for inventory. Please allow your child to bring 3-5 books from home to keep in his/her book box.
Wednesday:
Thursday: Volunteer Appreciation Day!
Friday: Classroom Library will close for inventory. Please allow your child to bring 3-5 books from home to keep in his/her book box.
Parent Input form: There is a link on the Caraway Website to give input about your child for next school year. Click here to go to the form.
School Supplies: There is also a link to the Caraway Website for ordering School Supplies for the 2015-2016 School Year. All orders will be online. Click here to go to the website.
READING and WRITING
We will continue our family writing. I can't wait to share their writing with you. I hope you are as entertained by them as I have been. After finishing our family writing, we will start working on our first grade memory books. We will remember all the great things that we did in first grade and write about those things. As always, we will emphasize on neat writing along with correct capitalization, punctuation, and sentence structure.
In reading we began the sequel to The Name of this Book is Secret (Secret Series #1). The title of our new book (Secret Series #2) is If your Reading This it's Too Late. These fiction books reinforce the comprehension skills and strategies we've learned this year. It also helps get first graders interested in reading chapter books over the summer! We will use the picture clues as well as the text clues to make predictions and inferences, visualize a part of the story or make connections.
We will continue our family writing. I can't wait to share their writing with you. I hope you are as entertained by them as I have been. After finishing our family writing, we will start working on our first grade memory books. We will remember all the great things that we did in first grade and write about those things. As always, we will emphasize on neat writing along with correct capitalization, punctuation, and sentence structure.
In reading we began the sequel to The Name of this Book is Secret (Secret Series #1). The title of our new book (Secret Series #2) is If your Reading This it's Too Late. These fiction books reinforce the comprehension skills and strategies we've learned this year. It also helps get first graders interested in reading chapter books over the summer! We will use the picture clues as well as the text clues to make predictions and inferences, visualize a part of the story or make connections.
MATH
For the next few weeks, we will work hard on problem solving. We will review the steps of how to start the problem solving and work on different strategies that have been learning throughout the year. Reading a math problem is like reading a story. We need to visualize it first by drawing a relevant picture. We need to remember the important things by underlining them, and we need to show our steps and strategies such as using a number line, ten blocks and ones, tally marks, and addition and subtraction sentences. Whatever strategy we use, we also need to write our thinking in words. These steps will help the children in the long run to do more advanced problem solving in higher grades.
SOCIAL STUDIES
We will continue our unit on economics. The children have been learning about goods and services and how some jobs produce, or make goods and other jobs provide a service. We all need money to satisfy our needs and wants, and in order to gain money we need to have jobs. But we also need to make wise choices and be smart about spending our money. We will also learn about scarcity problem, when we have unlimited wants and needs and limited resources.
For the next few weeks, we will work hard on problem solving. We will review the steps of how to start the problem solving and work on different strategies that have been learning throughout the year. Reading a math problem is like reading a story. We need to visualize it first by drawing a relevant picture. We need to remember the important things by underlining them, and we need to show our steps and strategies such as using a number line, ten blocks and ones, tally marks, and addition and subtraction sentences. Whatever strategy we use, we also need to write our thinking in words. These steps will help the children in the long run to do more advanced problem solving in higher grades.
SOCIAL STUDIES
We will continue our unit on economics. The children have been learning about goods and services and how some jobs produce, or make goods and other jobs provide a service. We all need money to satisfy our needs and wants, and in order to gain money we need to have jobs. But we also need to make wise choices and be smart about spending our money. We will also learn about scarcity problem, when we have unlimited wants and needs and limited resources.
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