This week in First grade...

April 15^th- 19^th   

Reminders:

**STAAR testing on April 23^rd, 24^th and 25^th.  No Parents allowed in the building!**

Friday, April 19^th  First grade Field Trip to Elgin Christmas Tree Farm

Monday, April 22^nd Earth Day

Reading Workshop:

In Reading Workshop we will continue our unit on Poetry.  We will read and examine different forms of free verse poetry.  We will read and write acrostic poems, shape poems, emotion poems and friend poems.  We will continue to add poetry to our poetry folders in our book boxes to read during workshop.

Writer’s Workshop:

In Writer’s Workshop we will continue our Poetry writing unit.  We will continue to write our own poetry as we learn about various types of poetry.  This week we will write sensory poems and feeling poems.  We will focus on using adjectives to describe objects in the form of poetry.  We will also use the same descriptive language to write Feeling Poems.  We will brainstorm words to describe things and utilize a planning form to collect our ideas before we write.

 Math:

In math we will begin our unit on Doubles Subtraction we will “think addition” that help us quickly recall our math facts.  We will apply the strategies we are learning to problem solving situations.  During this unit we will apply all of the addition and subtraction facts we’ve learned in first grade and be able to identify them in our math notebooks. 

Science:

Over the past couple of weeks, we have learned so much about animals and their body parts, their special adaptations, and about their basic needs. We will now be learning about how animals and plants need each other and how they help each other survive.  We will be researching habitats and creating murals for each habitat to illustrate how the plants and animals depend on each other in each habitat.  This is a culminating activity to our animal unit.