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This week in First grade...

I hope everyone had a lovely weekend.  It's starting to feel more like Summer these days! I hope everyone was able to enjoy some outdoor time. 

A message from the Cub Scouts:

Hello parents!

Does your family like being outdoors? Are you looking for an affordable way to spend time with your family that focuses on character development? Is your son or daughter entering first through fifth grade in the fall? If so, come to our information session on Cub Scouting, coming up on Thursday, April 26, at 6:30PM in the Caraway cafeteria. We will be talking about summer programming and info for joining Cub Scouts now and in the fall. If you’re completely new to the Scouting program, please see the attached letter and feel free to email me at committeepack162@gmail.com with any questions. Thanks and we are looking forward to seeing you on April 26 and in Scouting next year!

Yours In Scouting,
Evan Cone (dad of Mitch, Hazel, and Turner)

Field Day Information:

Field Day–Friday, April 27th    K, 1st, 2nd Grade- 8:30-10:30 am

This year promises to be another fun and exciting Field Day with some new games, a fun inflatable, and a new format.  This 2018 Field Day has 36 stations!!! Your child’s homeroom teacher will place their students into small “Buddy Teams”.  Buddy teams will go to each station together. Team members travel together with a card that lists all 36 stations. Upon completion of a station, the parent volunteer will highlight the station on the team card.  Students will decide as a team which station to go to next.

What will your child need/wear to field day?  Clothing-SHORTS and t-shirt!!!  Also, children need to wear sunscreen and tennis shoes (please no sandals, flip-flops or Crocs)!!!! Children may also wear a hat.  Sunglasses are discouraged.

Volunteers: If you are a parent volunteer that will be helping at one of the field daystations, on Field Day please  stop at the Safe and Secure entrance (Oak View side of the school) to pick up your RAPTOR (school volunteer) sticker.  All volunteers should arrive at least 20 minutes before the start of their Field Day session.  Please be on time so you can sign in, obtain your assignment and read instructions/rules related to your Field Daystation.   Also, realize that Safe and Secure will be very busy and parking may be tough. Also, if you are a volunteer we ask that younger siblings not attend field day. Thanks for your time, help and cooperation.

Early Dismissal Policies on Field Day:  Leaving school early on Field Day is discouraged.  However, if your student must leave early on Field Day, please follow the below guidelines:

Student leaving DURING Field Day Session:

Parent/Guardian MUST sign student out from Cheryl Borden in the Safe and Secure Office.

• Parent/Guardian will receive a pink Student Pass.
• The Parent/Guardian will need to locate their student on field and bring their student AND the pink Student Pass to their teacher.
• Parent/Guardian will need to keep pink Student Pass when they walk their student through the teacher monitoring zones to exit school property.

Students leaving AFTER their Field Day ends

• All students MUST go to their Grade Level Meeting Place at the end of their FieldDay session to be accounted for by the classroom teacher.
• Please inform the classroom teacher your student will be leaving early.
• Near each Grade Level Meeting Place, staff members will have sign-out sheets for you to sign out your student.
• Students should enter the school with their class to retrieve their belongings and then meet their parents/guardians by the picnic tables.

Thanks for your help to make field day a fun and enjoyable event!

Weekly Information:

Monday 4/23- 

Tuesday 4/24- Tuesday folders come home//Empty and Return on Wednesday

Wednesday 4/25- Library Checkout (last one!)

Thursday 4/26-

Friday 4/27- Field Day! 

This Week in Writing….

We will be working our way through the writing process one last time through a family writing story! You will be able to enjoy reading these at our Knowledge Night on May 3rd! The students are taking ownership of their writing and working on revising, editing, adding details and publishing their lovely stories!

This Week in Reading…

We will be reading cultural folktales and fairy tales. The students already have a foundation of the elements of folktales/fairytales so it will be fun to add a cultural twist to these stories! We will be digging deeper into the text and using our reading strategies to truly understand these stories.

This Week in Science…

We will be reviewing habitats! Our class will be studying the rainforest habitat. We will learn why animals need the plants, why the plants need the sun, and more about interdependency. We will eventually make a class mural to hang in the hallway featuring all the layers and characteristics of the rainforest habitat!

This Week in Math…

We will be wrapping up working with the hundreds chart and moving in to 2 digit place value, money and expanded form. We have learned most of these concepts before, and now its time to tie them altogether! Students will display mastery of these skills through problem solving and hands on activities. IXL has great practice on money and expanded form. (M.3, Q.1-10)

This week in Spelling...

We will be working on compound words this week. Our words will be...

clownfish, backdoor, teacup, into, whatever, into, today

Our life skill of the week is… Initiative.

This week in First grade...

April 16-20

We had the BEST time designing and building our Chicken Coops this week! We watched video tutorials by Becky's Homestead (youtube) to teach us more about chickens and coops.  She helped us think about what we needed to have in our chicken spaces.  Thank you for sending in materials for the boys and girls to use.  They had an hour to create and build their chicken coops then we did a Coop Parade around the room to look at everyone's creations.

Party for Celebrating Mrs. Sanders:

On April 17th we will celebrate Mrs. Nelda Sanders and her 50 years of dedication to education. We will honor her with a come and go reception in the library beginning at 3:30 p.m. We are collecting memories, stories, and photos of Nelda from over the past 50 years. You can either share in the linked form or write a memory on any kind of stationary. You can deliver to Caraway Elementary or bring with you the day of the celebration. We look forward to hearing from you! If you have any questions, please email lisa_costello@roundrockisd.org.

If you would like to participate, our celebration is a "Groovy 60's" theme (students may dress in 60s attire at school on April 17th). ​​No gift needed, your presence is gift enough

Reminders:
Monday (4/16):
Tuesday (4/17): Celebration for Mrs. Sanders at 3:30pm
                          Tuesday folders will come home. Please return Wednesday.
Wednesday (4/18): Chick Fest (see email)
                                No Library this week
Thursday (4/19): Mrs. Caballero gone (half day PM) Mrs. Jackson here
Friday (4/20): Mrs. Jackson here all day

This week in Reading Workshop...
We will feature a Read Aloud this week all about diverse cultures.  We will discuss comprehension strategies such as making connections, inferring and retelling the story.  We will discuss how celebrations can be the same or different for different cultures.

This week in Writing Workshop...
We will complete our Chick Research Project.  We've collected our facts by reading from different sources of information such as books, websites and watching short videos.  Now we are ready to teach others about what we learned.

This week in Science...
We will relate our study of chicken coops to different animals and examine their habitats.  We will think about how the animals depend on plants and other animals to live and get shelter.  We will study habitats from all over the world.

This week in Spelling...
We will not have spelling this week! Enjoy extra reading time or iXL at home!

This week in Math...
We will focus on counting collections of coins.  A collection of pennies is counted by 1's.  A collection of nickels is counted by 5's and a collection of dimes is counted by 10's.  We will also begin thinking about numbers up to 120 and find patterns on the hundreds chart.  We will learn about place value by using concrete objects to represent numbers with three digits.

Have a great week!