Thank you to all that came to Author’s Breakfast last
week! The students all appreciated your
comments and it was a great morning! We
have been reading the BFG and are determined to read most of it before
attending the play on Thursday. I look
forward to meeting with all of you next week at Portfolio Conferences.
Upcoming Events:
Thursday, March 17th-Field Trip to the PAC to see The
BFG. Feel free to dress nicely for this event!
Monday, March 21st and Tuesday, March 22nd-Portfolio
Conferences.
Wednesday, March 23rd-End of Third Quarter
Wednesday March 23rd-Monday March 28th-Spring Break
Friday, April 8th: Knowledge-A-Thon
Curriculum Updates:
Readers' Workshop: We finished up the last part
of our unit by teaching kindergarten friends about the books we've been
reading. We started out by introducing our book, telling about the characters
and the big events, passed along the lesson and read a bit of our book. This
week and next week we will be digging deeper into our character work. We're
going to spend some days reading our books as if we were characters and
learning the job of a narrator. At the end of the week we will be joining
character clubs in which partners will read several books with the same
character to really get to know the characters well. We'll even be spending
some time acting our books out! Ask your child what character he or she is
planning on getting to know even better!
Writers' Workshop: We are continuing our
"Writing Like Scientists" unit. Last week first graders had an
opportunity to plan, conduct and write about their own experiments! What a huge
success. We are working on recording our results by writing "I notice..."
and "I see.." to say even more. We're also trying to be accurate on
recording the steps we took for our experiments so other people could try them
and see what results they give. We've been trying to rehearse and practice each
step adding as much detail as we can. This week we will plan out another
experiment using what we've learned from our first experiments, as well as what
we noticed other scientists using. It appears that mixing some liquids can
cause some over flowing! I'm excited to see the new combinations this week.
Word Study: New words this week are: first, next, again. Words will be assessed
this Friday, March 18.
Math Workshop: We're continuing our Comparisons
in Data unit this week. Students conducted and represented data with their own
surveys last week. This week we will continue working on solving comparison
problems. We are using comparison bars to help us solve these problems and
discussing comparison language such as more and fewer.
Science/Social Studies: We'll be finishing up
our solids and liquids unit this week. We'll be using everything we learned
about the properties of solids and liquids to help us compare the two. We'll
also complete a short assessment to show what we have learned!
Have a great week!
-Samantha
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