Hello,
Welcome back! I hope everyone had a relaxing and enjoyable
break! Thank you to everyone for coming to conferences last week and taking the time to share in your first graders successes! We ended last week with another successful egg crack off. This is such
an exciting event for students. Our classroom winner was Mady P.!
Upcoming Events:
Friday, April 8th: Knowledge-A-Thon- Watch for
dress-up day schedule for next week!
Tuesday, April 12th: Family Night-Science,
Social Studies and Subs 5:30-7:00. A note is coming home today.
Monday, April 18th-No School-In service for teachers
Curriculum Updates:
Readers' Workshop: This week first graders are
really digging deep into their roles as directors and actors. Readers are
getting ready for partnerships by marking up the most important parts of their
books and noting how the characters are feeling and what they are thinking. We
will also be trying out scenes in several different ways to see which one best
gets at the character's real feelings. Readers will spend some time remembering
what it means to be a successful reading club member by thinking about how to
be a good listener, how to take turns speaking, giving one another proms and
how to talk off of each other's ideas.
Writers' Workshop: We are finishing up our
"Writing Like Scientists" unit. Writers will work on planning and
conducting one last experiment with their partners. We will also be conducting
one more experiment as a class. We will be ending our unit on Friday and next
week will be starting our next unit, From Scenes to Series: Writing
Fiction.
Word Study: New words this week are: animal,
can't, won’t. Words will be assessed this Friday, April 1, 2016
Math Workshop:. 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. We
also continue to work on our fact fluency-solving addition
and subtraction equations within 10. We will be completing
our end of the unit assessment on Friday.
Science/Social Studies: We'll be learning more
about US symbols this week. We'll spend some time reading about symbols and
taking notes on our learning. Then, students will have the chance to learn even
more about a symbol of their choice. Some of the symbols we will study are: Bald
Eagle, Liberty Bell, Statue of Liberty, The Flag, as well as other symbols
students want to learn more about.
We also start Junior Achievement this week. A
volunteer from a local business comes into our classroom once a week for 5
weeks and conducts a lesson that lasts about 30 minutes. JA programs focus on
the skills necessary for students to develop work readiness, financial literacy
and entrepreneurism all at the first grade level. The program is designed to be
interactive using practical hands on activities that reinforce key concepts to
prepare and inspire students to succeed in a global economy. The title of the
first grade program is: Our Families.
Our Families® emphasizes the roles people play in
the local economy and engages students with activities about needs, wants,
jobs, tools and skills, and interdependence.
· Concepts–Business, Choices, Consumers, Economic
institutions, Employment, Family, Incentives, Income, Interdependence, Jobs,
Needs, Resources, Scarcity, Skills, Tools, Voluntary exchange, Wants, Work
· Skills–Analyzing information, Decision-making,
Differentiating, Drawing, Following directions, Interpreting symbols, Listening
responsively, Making observations, Map reading, Matching, Teamwork
As always, let me know if you have any questions.
-Samantha
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