Hello! I loved
listening to our weekend shares this morning.
Everyone sounds like they had fun enjoying the warm weather. Tomorrow we will be walking around the
neighborhood to clean up trash to celebrate Earth Day. Make sure that your child is wearing walking shoes
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Our end of the year field trip in First Grade includes a
walk around Kaukuana with a few visits at local businesses. It’s a great way to celebrate the end of our
Communities unit. We will be starting
this unit next week. We will be needing chaperones for this day. If you would like to add it to your calendar
it will be Friday, May 20th. Also,
if you will need a background check done, please let me know as soon as
possible!
Upcoming Events:
April 20th-Earth Day Clean-Up
April 21 & 22: Brianna our Staff Developer from the
Teachers College at Columbia University will be visiting our school and working
closely with teachers and students. We
are excited for this learning experience!
Curriculum Updates:
Readers' Workshop: We are continuing our unit,
Thinking and Talking About Books. We are focusing on making connections
for a couple days this week. We will be noticing when we think “That reminds me
of... because…” or “This makes me think of… because….” and using these as a
conversation starters with our partners and as stop and jots in our books. We will also make sure that our connections
are not taking us too far away from the book, so that we can continue to carry
the meaning of the story. At the end of
the week we will revisit the importance of our partners during reading
time. Partners can help us in many ways including
solving tricky words.
Writers' Workshop: We will continue to work on
writing series. We will revise and
celebrate the books in our first series this week. We will then investigate what makes realistic
fiction realistic. We will use mentor
texts to help us in our inquiry. At the
end of the week we will work on “show, not tell” by focusing on tiny realistic
details so that the reader can picture the story in their mind.
Word Study: We will spend the month of April
reviewing all of our words from this year. Our goal is to not only write them
isolation, but also spell them correctly in our writing. We have also been
adding many new poems to our poem binders!
Math Workshop: We will continue to practice
2-digit addition this week. See the
chart below to see the methods that we have been using in our classroom. We will have the unit test on Thursday. On Friday we will be doing more number-work
with numbers up to 120.
Social Studies: This
week we will be finishing up our research on U.S. Symbols. Students will share their findings with each
other. It really is exciting how much
they are learning through their own investigations! We will also learn about Earth Day and
importance of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
Have a great week! As
always, let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
-Samantha
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