This week in First grade...

May 6-10

Remember to scroll down past this post and view our Field Day pictures!!

Reminders:

Friday, May 17^th  Career Day

Thursday, May 30th  End of Year party

Friday, May 31^st Last day of First grade

*Cafeteria note:  As of April 29^th students will not be allowed to charge their lunch.  Lunch accounts must have a balance that will pay for their lunch purchase each day.  Cheese sandwiches will be served to students who do not have enough money in their account.

Reading Workshop:

In Reading Workshop we will continue our unit on Fiction.  We will identify the elements of fiction and explore a variety of literary genres.  We will discuss sequence of a story and character traits.  Students will respond in their Reader’s Response notebook as we read books as a class, independently and with partners.

Writer’s Workshop:

In Writer’s Workshop we will continue the process of editing and revising.  As a class we will learn strategies of revision such as adding dialogue, revising by adding to the middle of our stories and revising by taking things away from our stories.  We will continue to write a variety of stories and use the writing process. 

 Math:

In math we will begin our unit on patterns.  At this time of the year we look for patterns in all of our math processes, from skip counting, to making a graph and addition and subtraction.  We will use concrete models to show our thinking and record our ideas in our math notebooks.

Science:

This week we will finish our unit on plants.  We’ve observed seeds, learned about their parts and planted seeds.  We will learn about the parts of a plant and it’s functions as we wrap our unit up.  We will begin our Texas Unit for Social Studies later this week.  We will learn about the symbols of Texas and why it’s great to be a Texan!!