This week in First grade...

May 1-5

We've made it to May! I'm so proud of these boys and girls! They have learned so much and grown a lot too!  This week we will begin our End of Year Assessments.  It will take us a couple of weeks to get through everything.

Reminders:
Monday (5/1):
Tuesday (5/2): Library- no check out  ALL BOOKS are DUE! If your child owes money for a book
                        it must be paid for by May 5th in order for them to attend the Book Fair.
                        Tuesday folders will come home.  Please unload them and return the folder.
Wednesday (5/3):
Thursday (5/4):
Friday (5/5):

STAAR Testing for 3rd, 4th and 5th grade will be May 8th, 9th and 10th.  Our campus will be closed to visitors those three days.

KnOWLedge Night is coming up soon.  On the evening of May 18th we will be hosting a Reading Restaurant. We will have a reservation time for you and your child to come and participate.  The reservation times will be sent closer to May 18th.  We are excited to share our love or reading and our portfolios with our families!

Field Day is Friday, May 19th.

This week in Reading Workshop...
We will continue to review the strategies that Strong Readers use to help them understand what they read.  We use our "strategy tool kit" as a reminder of what we have learned this year.  At the end of First grade readers naturally use their comprehension strategies! It's fun when we can name what we do as readers.

This week in Writing Workshop...
We will be completing our end of the year Family Writing.  It's so exciting for the students to see how much they've grown when they compare their beginning of the year family writing to the end of the year.  These pieces will be displayed at KnOWLedge Night.

This week in Spelling...
We will be focusing on the long i sound. It can be spelled three different ways.

The long i sound at the beginning of a word or in the middle of a word can be spelled i as in kite.

The long i sound at the end of a word is spelled y as in sky.

The long i sound at the end of a one syllable word can be spelled igh as in might.

Regular spelling list: kite, sky, idea, tie, fly, rise, time

Challenge list: fright, knight, bride, mile, supply, July, nightmare

This week in Math...
We will be moving on to a unit on Inequality and Comparison Subtraction.  Students will be thinking about the equal sign and what is on either side of it.  Comparison subtraction deals with quanties that are compared with each other.  An example would be, Mrs. Caballero baked 12 cupcakes.  Lyla baked 15.  How many more cupcakes did Lyla bake that Mrs. Caballero?

This week in Science...
We will begin our unit on Plants.  We will study seeds this week.  I would love for the students to bring a seed in by next Tuesday (May 2) to observe with our class.  This can be a seed from a fruit or veggie that you eat at home.  We will observe these and discuss the plants they will grow into.

Have a great week!