March 27-31st Update

Hello,

Wow! I can you believe it's the last week of March already?! I am excited to share your first graders progress at conferences either tonight or Thursday.  I have been meeting with students to set goals to work towards in the last quarter of first grade and we can't wait to share them with you!

Keep practicing the KAT questions and don’t forget to turn in your permission slip for our PAC field trip if you haven’t already.

http://signup.com/go/TNwaqh

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.

Upcoming Events:

3/28 & 3/30: Portfolio Conferences 4:00-7:00
3/29: Wacky Hair Day
4/3-7: Dress Up Days- See Below

4/7: KAT in the AM, PAC field trip in the PM
4/11: Egg Crack Off- Look for a note to be coming home soon!

KAT Week Dress Up Days April 3-7th 
Monday Brewer/Sports Day
Tuesday Dress as a question or answer to KAT question
Wednesday Pajama Day
Thursday Superhero Day
Friday Dress Fancy

Reading: We are continuing to study characters this week with the focus that readers learn lessons from their books. We are making predictions on what the lesson might be and we are checking our predictions throughout our reading. In our small groups many of us are working on our conversations about books and we have formed book clubs. Reading has been a very exciting part of our day!

Writing: Students are doing an amazing job writing realistic fiction stories. They are giving their characters troubles and then fixing the troubles. We are using what we know about adding action, feeling and dialogue to make our stories come alive!

Word Work: The new words this week are: say, well, give, again, please. 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’re going to be spending a couple more days on comparison problems and using comparison bars as this concept was a little tricky for first graders. At the end of the week we will be moving on to two digit addition!

Content: We are continuing our study of US symbols. Students are researching U.S. symbols and working to make posters to present their information. Students have dug right into their research and are very excited about what they are learning!

-Samantha