Weekly Update May 16-20

Hello,

Wow!  I can’t believe how fast this year has gone!  They will be second graders soon J

On Friday we have our community walking field trip.  Remind your student to wear comfortable walking shoes.  Also, if you indicated on the field trip form that you will be joining us, I look forward to seeing you!  We plan to leave at 8:30 a.m.

On Friday, we celebrated the success of the Knowledge-a-Thon.  We decorated cookies because they are all one smart cookie and at the end we had an awards ceremony.  Our class won first place for the highest average score!  You can see in the pictures below how excited and proud we were of our hard work!

At the end of the year, fourth graders host "mini-courses" where they teach a skill to our 5k-3rd graders.  If you have empty egg cartons, please send them in with your child this week.  We have a group that needs them.  Thanks! 

Upcoming Events:

Friday, May 20: Community Walking Tour Field Trip

Monday, May 23: Family Event at the Kaukauna Public Library 6-7 PM

Thursday, May 26: Early Dismissal 

Friday-Monday, May 27-May 30: No School

Wednesday, June 1:Mini Courses/ Field Day

Thursday, June 2: Last day of school for students. Early Dismissal

Let's celebrate the last few days with a special GOOD-BYE!

5/23 G Green Bay gear and grapes

5/24 O Oranges and wear orange

5/25 O Odd day and Oreos

5/26 D Dot day: Wear dots and dot art

5/31 B Book buddies and wear blue

6/1 Y Yummy popsicles and yoga

6/2 E Exercise gear

Curriculum Updates:

Readers' Workshop: We are continuing our nonfiction study. This week we will learn ways nonfiction readers can take notes about what they are learning so they can share with their partner. Some ways we are organizing our learning is by using T-charts, Venn Diagrams, Webs. We will also be comparing and contrasting books about the same topic to grow and change our thinking and notice when information doesn't match. We can compare and contrast books by asking, "Why is this important?" or "Why do you think this keeps showing up in all the books?"

Writers' Workshop: We are starting our poetry unit. This week will study other 1st grade poets to see what we can learn about writing poems. We we also be exploring poetry centers to get our poetic juices flowing. The centers include: illustrating a poem with watercolors, listen to songs, read song books, see ordinary objects with new eyes and add more poems to our poetry anthology. 

Word Study: We will continue to work on using 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 are working on short and long I words this week!

Math Workshop:  This week we will be finishing up our work with measurement, shapes, and time. On Monday we used paper clips as a form of measurement. We will review time and shapes and plan to take our unit test on Thursday.  We are taking the End of the Year first grade assessment.  It will be exciting to see how much we have grown as mathematicians in first grade!

Social Studies: We will be finishing up our community centers week and then ending our week with our walking community fieldtrip in which we will be touring the Piggly Wiggly, Times Villager, stopping at Dick's Drive-In for ice cream and eating lunch and playing at Horseshoe park. First graders are super excited for this field trip! 

As always if you have any questions let me know! Have a great week!

-Samantha