This Week in First Grade...

Reminders:

Field Trip Tuesday March 9!! Please have your child wear long pants and tennis shoes. If they have a Caraway shirt, please have them wear it.
Bring a sack lunch and make sure everything can be thrown away, nothing will be coming back with us!


Hello, all! It’s time for our whirlwind fundraising week for our new butterfly-hummingbird habitat, the O.W.L. (Outdoor Wildlife Lab). Our stonework is going in this week – now we need to raise money fast in order to make sure we have enough soil, plants, and mulch to fill up our big garden on Dig Day. In this Monday’s folder, there are flyers with envelopes and leaves attached to them. As students return the envelopes with donations and their names on the leaves, the leaves get added to our Giving Tree. The more leaves on the Giving Tree, the more beautiful it will become. And as we raise money, watch the Fundflower start to bloom!
Now here’s the big part –any class that returns all their students’ leaves with their donations by Friday, March 12, is going to get a special prize! So we are asking your help to get the word out – please talk to your students each day, send e-mail to your students’ parents, add messages to your blogs, and so on! March 12 is a pretty fast turnaround!
The following week is Spring Break, and the week after that is when we need our plants and soil – time is of the essence!
We are very grateful for all your help,
Caraway’s Habitat Team

Report cards will go home Monday March 22.

Wednesday, March 10 is an Early Release Day. Students will be released at 12:45.

Spring Break starts next week!! (March 15-19) Hope everyone enjoys the week! Let's hope for good weather.

In Reader's Workshop...
We are still sending home take-home readers every night. Please have your child read and bring them back the next day. We are having several issues with books not coming back. If your child does not bring their book back, they will not be able to take home the next one and will be behind when we read in class.

In Writer's Workshop...
We finished our unit on Small Moment Writing. Last Friday, the class had an opportunity to share a finished piece with the class. We will start this week with writing about chicks and start our unit on Writing for Readers.
In word work we will talk about blends and nouns.
Spelling: glove, dragon, stool, train, crust, drip
Challenge: service, measurement
Vocabulary: all, then, end, oil, have

In math...
We will continue time with estimating how long things take. We will determine if things take about a minute, about an hour, about a day, etc. Our next unit will be fractions, which will start after Spring Break.

In Science...
Our eggs hatched!!!!!! We had a total of 5 eggs hatch and will be taking them with us on our field trip tomorrow to Elgin Christmas Tree Farm. We are studying the different types of animals and will begin animal research after Spring Break.

Have a great week and Spring Break!