This week in First grade...

April 11-15

We are so excited in First grade this week! Our chicks are suppose to hatch on Thursday! I will set up a live streaming site so you can watch from home or work! It will be so exciting!

I will send out a link so you can follow our live streaming video of our chicks hatching!

REMINDERS

Tuesday:Tuesday folders come home.  Please sign the folder and return it the next day.  Thank you!
Wednesday: Counselor's Lesson 
Thursday: Chicks begin hatching
Friday: Shamrock'n and Roll Run @ 1:45 (if weather permits)

READING
This week we will review and learn more about different genres of fiction such as traditional literature, fantasy, realistic fiction, and science fiction. Traditional stories are stories that are passed down from one group to another in history. They include fairy tales, fables and myths from different cultures. Fantasy are stories that have magical elements and are make-believe.  Science fiction is a type of fantasy that uses science and technology such as robots. Realistic fiction are stories that have made up characters but they could happen in real life.


WRITING
In writing we will continue writing true stories from our lives.  Things that have happened to us or we have experienced.  We will focus on a specific event that happened over a very short period of time, a few seconds or perhaps a few minutes. we call these moments, small moments.  Small moments are short, yet we write them with details and explanation.  In other words, we would expand and stretch our moment over a few lines, or a paragraph.  Writers that write personal narratives, put these small moments together to make a story. We will also use a writing checklist to help us with the writing process.

MATH
This week we will learn about fraction, equal parts and unequal parts.  We will learn that halves are one out of two equal parts and quarters are one out of four equal parts. We will use two-dimensional figures with two or four parts and decide whether or not the parts are equal or fair share.  We will use vocabularies such as equal parts, fair, not fair, same size pieces, half, fourth, fourths, quarters or a quarter of.

SOCIAL STUDIES
We will continue our unit in economics.  Last week we learned about goods and services and how we must have jobs to meet our needs and wants and exchange goods and services.  This week we will discuss why we are required to make choices with our money.  We will discuss examples of times when we want more than we can have and therefore we need to make wise choices about our money.

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This week in First grade...

April 4-8

Hope you all had a great time at Family Fun Night! Here are a few reminders for this week:

REMINDERS

*Reading Logs will come home in the Tuesday folder!

Tuesday:Tuesday folders come home.  Report cards for the third nine weeks come home.  Please sign the folder and return it the next day.  Thank you!
Wednesday:  
Thursday: No library this week.
Friday: Reading folders are due.
Caraway Science Night 6-8 PM

Homework Change: Reading Logs

We are transitioning to self selected at home reading.  I am sending home a Reading Log for your child to record the titles of the books they read.  Our goal is to read 15 minutes 5-6 nights a week.  Encourage your child to read a variety of genres.  Setting up a good reading routine will help your child be successful in 2nd grade.

READING and WRITING
We will continue our research on chicks.  The children have been working on their research books and have found the answers to many questions such as the life cycle of chicks, how does the chick grow inside an egg, and the stages of chick development. This week we will wrap up our chick research and move on to writing small moments or personal narratives.  We will review the writing process (think, sketch, and write), and write small moments that have happened in our lives.  Please have your child practice the first grade sight words at home.  A copy of those words are in your child's daily folder.The children should be able to spell them correctly by the end of first grade.

MATH
We will continue working on inequality and comparing numbers.  We will review that equal sign represents a relationship where expressions on each side of the equal sign represent the same values and inequality represent different values.  We will use objects and pictorial models to solve word problems involving joining, separating and comparing sets within 20.


SOCIAL STUDIES
This week we will learn about families wants and basic needs, and how these needs are being met. We will identify examples of goods and services at home, school, and community and ways people exchange goods and services.