This week in First Grade...

April 3-7

I hope everyone had a chance to swing by for Family Dinner Night AKA Caraway City Limits.  My family got our pizza, enjoyed chatting with those of you that we saw and stayed for the Auction and Raffle.  It was a great fundraiser for our PTA! We are so lucky to have such an active PTA whose number one priority is our students! Congrats to Henry! He won our First Grade Ice Cream Party Raffle!!

This week in First grade...
Monday (4/3): Reading Homework will come home.
Tuesday (4/4): Library Checkout. Please help your child remember to bring their books
                        Tuesday folders will come home.  Report cards will come home.  Please sign the
                        envelope and return it to school on Wednesday.  The report card is yours to keep.
Wednesday (4/5): Early Release Day school will be dismissed at 12:00pm. We will have lunch in
                             the classroom on this day.
                             Guidance Lesson with Mrs. Amiri
Thursday (4/6):
Friday (4/7): Reading Homework is due.
                     Family Fit and Fun Night at 6:30pm

In the future...
No school on Friday, April 14th

This week in Reading Workshop we will be enjoying different stories themed around Chickens.  We've been doing a lot of hard work as researchers so we are going to take a week to remember that sometimes readers like to read for entertainment! We will review the things we know about fiction and ways we monitor our comprehension as we read.  We will also practice recording our thoughts and feelings about our reading in our Reader's Response Notebooks.

This week in Writing Workshop we will be reviewing different types of writing as we are wrapping up our chicken research.  We will write a letter to our future chicks when we review the parts of a letter.  We will review ways that writers form a story such as planning the beginning, middle and end.  We will also review poetry and write a poem or two about chickens.

This week in Science we will wrap up our coop designs.  I will hang them in the hallway when they are complete.  We read books about chicken habitats and watched youtube videos about chicken coop designs.  Our favorite was Becky's Homestead.  Her videos taught us all about chickens and about the different types of coops you can build for your chickens.  We are so excited for our babies to hatch! After we wrap up our designs we will move on to mammals.  We will learn about mammals movement and body parts.  We will learn about their habitats, how they depend on their environment to find shelter and get food and their life cycles.

This week we will have our first Spelling Test.  In second grade Caraway students begin taking spelling tests.  They have a pre-assessment on Monday then practice during the week and take their post-assessment on Friday.  I would like to give my students an idea of how that will work so we are going to follow that model.  The students will be given 7 words to practice during the week.  This week we will practice at school.  They will also have three application words.  This will be a total of 10 on their post-assessment.  This week we are going to review long vowel sounds.

Our words will be...
lake, rose, play, grape, under, cape, mate

The three application words will follow the long vowel pattern. We will practice with this skill during the week.

Have a great week!