This week in First grade...

November 7-11

I hope everyone had a fantastic week! I'm so excited to be back and ready for all kinds of new adventures! We only have two weeks together until Thanksgiving Break!

Reminders:

Monday: Spirit Assembly in the Cafeteria at 7:45am.
               Mock Election in the Library
Tuesday: Caraway is a Polling location for the Election.
               Tuesday folders will come home.  Please unload and return on Wednesday.
               Library Checkout- Please remind your child to turn in their books by 8am.
Wednesday:
Thursday: Coffee and Conversation with Mrs. Bailey 7:45am
Friday: Last Caraway Academy this session
             Picture Re-takes and Holiday pictures

Looking ahead...
Tuesday, November 14: Heritage Doll Project is Due
Wednesday November 16: Thanksgiving Lunch in the Cafeteria
Friday, November 17: Turkey Trot 10:35am

This week in Reading and Writing Workshop...
We will be learning more about nonfiction text.  We will be focusing on the Main Idea of nonfiction texts as we read and learn about Pumpkins.  We will also learn about the Pumpkin Life Cycle as we write facts about pumpkins that we learn while reading.  In Writing Workshop we will continue our interactive writing and create a class book about Pumpkins.  We will think about what we already know and write facts.  As we go through the week we will organize the facts and create our very own nonfiction book!

This week in Science...
We will be learning about forces with Magnets! We will predict how the magnets will work then we will explore different types of Magnets.  We will record our observations in our science notebooks as we learn about magnets.

This week in Math...
We will begin stretching our knowledge about Place Value this week.  We will practice with patterns on hundreds charts and magnetic tens frames so we can understand that the TENS place has groups of ten and the ONES place has single units.  Practice with the basic idea of place value by having your child count small objects out in groups of ten.  Then have then count how many groups are there and tell you the number they created. We will end the week with using Tens sticks and ones cubes as we compose and decompose numbers.

Have a great week!