This week in First grade...

Welcome back!!

March 18^th – 22^nd

Reminders:

Thursday, March 21^st Class Pictures and Spring Pictures

Friday, March 29^th Spring Holiday

Friday, April 12^th  Family Fun Night

Reading Workshop:

In Reading Workshop we will begin our unit on Research!  We will learn about asking questions as we read to examine different subjects.  We will determine what we want to learn from a source and stretch our thinking!

Take home readers this week will be a script for a Reader's Theatre play.  Your child will bring their script home each day to practice reading their lines and the story so they are familiar with the plot.  The scripts will travel to and from home in your child's blue folder.

Writer’s Workshop:

In Writer’s Workshop we will learn to record our learning as we make a whole class Research book.  We will take an idea, gather information about it and create an “All About” Book to share with others.  We will think about being an expert on a subject!

Math:

In math we will work on Problem Solving.  We will experiment with a variety of problems and strategies that we’ve learned throughout the year.  We will stretch our thinking and be able to show how our brain solves a problem.

Science:

In Science this week we will begin our unit on the Seasons.  We will examine our seasons and how seasons are different around the world.  We will think about what we’ve learned about the sun and discuss the reason why we have seasons.

**This week we will set up our incubator to begin hatching chicks!  They will be in the incubator for 21 days!!**