This week in First grade...

February 27- March 3

Engineering Day was a wonderful learning opportunity! We listened to professionals describe what they do as engineers and we tried a few activities! In our classroom we made flower pots from newspapers. This helps save plastic from going into landfills and the newspaper is biodegradable so new plants can go straight into the ground with the little pots!  Engineers help find solutions to all kinds of problems.

Next week we will celebrate Read Across America day! We will have fun reading activities all week to celebrate reading.  Dr. Seuss' birthday is March 2nd.  As part of our week we will learn about this amazing author and read some of his stories! We look forward to celebrating reading with fun activities!  We will have a Read-a-Thon on Friday, March 3rd.  Please allow your child to bring 3-5 books from home for this event.  Please make sure their name is written inside the book.

Reminders:
Monday (2/27): Six Flags forms are Due no later than 3pm!
                          Reading Homework will come home in the reading bag.  Due Friday
                          Please remind your child to record their self-selected reading on their reading log.
Tuesday (2/28): No Library today
                          Tuesday folders will come home today.  Please return Wednesday
Wednesday (3/1):
Thursday (3/2): Dr. Seuss' Birthday
Friday (3/3): Read-A-Thon

Looking ahead:
Tuesday, February 28 Mrs. Caballero will be out for the afternoon.
Thursday, March 2 Mrs. Caballero will be out for the day as we plan for the rest of the year.
Spring Break - March 13-17

This week in Reading Workshop...
We will be diving deeper into Poetry.  We will read and analyze different types of poetry and begin to discuss the meaning of specific poems.  We will explore poems and notice how poems make us feel.

This week in Writer's Workshop...
We will be composing poetry utilizing strategies poets use such as
- finding a big topic that gives them big, strong feelings
- finding a small object or moment or detail that holds the big feeling
- looking with poet's eyes at the world around us
- writing about our feelings and how we see ordinary things in new, fresh ways
-finding ingredients for poems
-Showing, not telling


This week in Math...
We will wrapping up our unit on Making 10 and equality.  We will practice problem solving this week as we pay close attention to the questions being asked.  We will review all of the strategies we have learned for addition to find the ones that work the best for us as individuals.

This week in Social Studies...
We will begin our unit on Economics.  We will discuss the importance of saving and spending.  This will help us learn to be smart with our money.

Have a great weekend!