I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend of sunshine and outdoor fun! It's suppose to rain all week! We are prepared for an amazing week in First grade! Last Friday we finished our class chapter book The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell by Chris Colfer. The students LOVED it! We had so many meaningful conversations about the characters and the plot. It was amazing to see the students apply their learning to the story we all shared. This book was the first in a series of four books. The fifth book in the series is going to be released soon! I highly encourage you to read these engaging books with your child at home. Tomorrow we will begin a wonderful book called Rump! I'm sure the boys and girls will love this one too!
This week...
Monday (4/10): No reading homework this week due to the 4 day week. TIC TAC TOE homework
will be emailed.
Tuesday (4/11): Tuesday folders will come home. Please unload and return them on Wednesday.
No Library this week. Students may bring their books and check out independently.
Wednesday (4/12): Our chicks are due to hatch!! Live stream on Periscope
Thursday (4/13): Chick Fest! Dress like a farmer!! We will have a fun day of learning while we wait
for our chickies to hatch!
Friday (4/14): No school.
In Reading and Writing...
We will begin our last Research project of the year. This will be a time when students choose their topic, find sources, read, take notes and create a presentation about their topic. We will work on this project for two weeks! Tomorrow the students will be presented with books from the library. They will choose a topic based on the variety of books selected.
In Spelling...
This week we are working on the long e sound spelled a few different ways. This will begin our study of vowel pairs.
Rule: The (e) sound in the middle of a one syllable
word is spelled ee as in feet.
The (e) sound at the beginning of a word or in the
middle of a word can be spelled ea as in beach.
beach cream deep
seed real sheep
team
Challenge Spelling Words for April 10-13
Rule: The (e) sound in the middle of a one syllable
word is spelled ee as in feet.
The (e) sound at the beginning of a word or in the
middle of a word can be spelled ea as in beach.
The (e) sound in the middle or at the end of a word
with more than one syllable can be spelled e-consonant-e as in athlete.
The (e) sound at the end of a word with more than one
syllable is spelled y as in candy.
squeak complete penalty
fourteen flea season
hungry
We will begin a unit on Fractional Parts. The questions we will ask ourselves are "How do I know if I’ve shared something fairly? How exact does measurement have to be?" We will also spiral back to telling time during this unit. We will review telling time to the hour and learn about telling time to the half hour.
In Science...
We will wrap up our unit on Animals. We will review the 3 types of animal groups we focused on. Birds, Fish and Mammals. We we discuss how the food chain works in nature. We will also learn about the life cycle of a frog.
We will live stream at least one of our chicks hatching! I will send an email when we begin. It usually takes a while for them to get all of the way out of the egg so hopefully no one will miss it!
Have a great week!
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