Hello,
Spring is here! Although some days it might not feel like it yet! With the changing weather please make sure that your child is dressed for that days weather. Thank you for continuing to practice your KAT questions at home. I look forward to meeting with you next week during our Portfolio Conferences to share the growth your child has made so far this year in first grade.
Here are some areas we are looking for volunteers:
Book Fair
Conference Meals
Here is the sign up link for Knowledge-a-thon
Timber Rattlers Reading Program: Remember, if your child is participating in Fang’s Reading Club and completes the 2 week reading assignment, fill out the the corresponding Fang and bring him back to school. If your child completes all the the assignments, he/she will earn a complimentary ticket to the Timber Rattlers game on June 11th at 1:05 PM.
Classroom Need: We are in need of more pens for writing. We use the Paper Mate: Flair Pens in black. If you are out and about and could pick up a pack we would appreciate it! Thank you for all the donations so far!
Upcoming Events:
3/28 & 3/30: Portfolio Conferences 4:00-7:00
3/29: Wacky Hair Day
4/3: Sports Day
4/11: Egg Crack Off
Reading: We are doing an amazing job of making our stories come alive! This week we’ll be spending some time acting out what we think might come after the end of the story by thinking about what we know about the characters. We’ll also share different ideas about how a book might be performed. We’ll end our week by thinking about the lessons stories are trying to teach us and keep that life lesson in mind as we read new stories to see how they fit together.
Writing: We’ll be starting our realistic fiction writing unit this week, From Scenes to Series. In the first part of this unit writers will invent characters and small moment adventures for their characters. They will plan and act out their stories to help add details. In the second part of the unit, writers will put their characters in more than one book and more than one adventure. We’ll spend some time studying mentor authors to help us add details. We’ll end our unit by publishing our books, making sure to edit and revise in meaningful ways, and create a “meet the author” page.
Word Work: The new words this week are: saw, eat, ran, after, must. Please have your child practice these words on a regular basis. As they become fluent with them, it’s helps them with their reading and writing.
Math: We are continuing to solve comparison story problems. We are also learning about how we can use comparison bars to help us solve these situations. We’ll be having our unit assessment on Friday.
Content: We are continuing our study of US symbols. We’ll learn about a couple more symbols and then we’ll choose a symbol we want to learn more about and do our own research using books and Pebblego. We’ll end our study by presenting our learning to the rest of the class.
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