March 7-11
Family Dinner Night a.k.a Caraway City Limits was so fun! I didn't get to see everyone while we were here but I did see a few of you! I told my family that next year we will plan to come and stay for the whole time! I loved the atmosphere and community feel! It's such a great event!
Family Dinner Night a.k.a Caraway City Limits was so fun! I didn't get to see everyone while we were here but I did see a few of you! I told my family that next year we will plan to come and stay for the whole time! I loved the atmosphere and community feel! It's such a great event!
EDUCATION GO GET IT WEEK:
Tuesday: Wear your favorite University t-shirt.
Wednesday: Dress for success, dress up like the job you want to have.
Thursday: When we graduate we wear caps and gowns. Today wear your favorite cap.
Friday: Caraway t-shirt (remember all careers begin at Caraway!)
FIELD TRIP TO ZACH THEATER
Our filed trip to Zach Theater is on Friday, March 11th. If you have sent your permission slip and transportation fee, thank you! And if you haven't gotten a chance to do so, please send the permission slip along with 4 dollars transportation fee ASAP.
Please don't forget to send lunch and snack on Friday. We will eat lunch in the classroom before we leave for the theater.
SHAMROCK' N ROLL RUN
First grade will run/walk for Shamrock'n Roll on Friday at 8:40-9:30. Please consider joining your child to walk/run laps with them. Parents/grandparents can collect extra points for their child's class. Come to the track and meet us there at 8:40. Be sure to sign in your name and your child's class at the track before running/walking laps.
REMINDERS
Tuesday:Tuesday folders come home.
All first grade teachers are out due to district business.
Ms. Barnes will be my sub.
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday: Homework bag is due
Shamrock' n Roll (8:40-9:30). Field Trip to Zach.
READING AND WRITING
This week we will continue reading poems and use strategies that help us to understand poetry better. We will work on visualizing and making a mental picture in our mind. This strategy can also help us to understand other genres such as stories/fictions better. As we read the author's/poet's description about the character's look, actions and so on, we will try to picture them in our mind so we can have a better understanding of the poem/story. Poets often use sensory language such as words describing the sound, look, smell, taste or feel of something. Sensory words help the readers create a better picture in their mind as they read poetry. In writing, we will continue to write short poems.
WORD STUDY
Thursday:
Friday: Homework bag is due
Shamrock' n Roll (8:40-9:30). Field Trip to Zach.
READING AND WRITING
This week we will continue reading poems and use strategies that help us to understand poetry better. We will work on visualizing and making a mental picture in our mind. This strategy can also help us to understand other genres such as stories/fictions better. As we read the author's/poet's description about the character's look, actions and so on, we will try to picture them in our mind so we can have a better understanding of the poem/story. Poets often use sensory language such as words describing the sound, look, smell, taste or feel of something. Sensory words help the readers create a better picture in their mind as they read poetry. In writing, we will continue to write short poems.
We have been rocking and rolling in word study! We've come to the time of the year when we begin to transition our program and prepare the students for 2nd grade. Every Friday we will have a short assessment. We call it "Show me what you've Got!" instead of Spelling Test. Hopefully this will help them transition to having weekly spelling tests in 2nd grade. I am sending their third assessment home in the Tuesday folder. Their sounds last week were short o, or and o sounds that don't fit the pattern. We call those "oddballs". Our assessment contains words they have practiced during the week and words they have to apply what they've learned.
Here is their sort for this week!
MATH
This week we will learn about 3-D shapes. We will identify three-dimensional figures such as spheres, cones, cylinders, rectangular prisms (including cubes), and triangular prisms and describe their attributes using geometric language such as flat surface, curved surface, having corners (vertices) or not any corners, being able to stack or not. We will look at everyday objects around us and compare them to the 3-D shapes that we are learning about.
SCIENCE
In science we will continue learning about living things. Our focus will be on mammals and their external characteristics (body parts and cover). We will learn how these external characteristics determine where the mammals live, what they eat and how they move. We will also learn about interdependency and see how animals and plants in one habitat depend on each other to survive meet their needs.
This week we will learn about 3-D shapes. We will identify three-dimensional figures such as spheres, cones, cylinders, rectangular prisms (including cubes), and triangular prisms and describe their attributes using geometric language such as flat surface, curved surface, having corners (vertices) or not any corners, being able to stack or not. We will look at everyday objects around us and compare them to the 3-D shapes that we are learning about.
In science we will continue learning about living things. Our focus will be on mammals and their external characteristics (body parts and cover). We will learn how these external characteristics determine where the mammals live, what they eat and how they move. We will also learn about interdependency and see how animals and plants in one habitat depend on each other to survive meet their needs.
I hope most of you have been able to view your child's Living/Nonliving Movie Trailer on SeeSaw. They were so proud of their work! I'm including some pictures of our adventures outdoors!
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