It's hard to believe that our second trimester progress reports will be coming home on Monday! Two trimesters down, one to go. Next week, we'll be finishing up our tricky words unit in reading and our persuasive writing unit. In math we'll be moving onto unit 6 where we'll be using what we know about sorting and classifying to sort and display data. We'll also build on what we know about comparing numbers to develop comparison statements for a set of data. Your first grader will be teaching you about "comparison bars!" New writing and reading units will begin after our spring break.
On Monday, we enjoyed a St. Patrick's Day story and then wrote about who is more important to us than gold. If you're in the building over the next couple weeks, stop by to see them!
In Reader's Workshop this past week, we've been focusing our attention on using all we know about solving tricky words to help us to read for an audience. We began this study by brainstorming a list of qualities of good read-aloud voices. In other words, what do readers do well when they read aloud that helps us to enjoy the story or remember the information? We then put this to practice with our own partners! We discussed how we should sound when we read a fiction book and how we should sound when we read a non-fiction book. Over the next week, we'll focus on very specific attributes of each type of book and how we can best read to an audience.
During Writer's Workshop we continued writing our book reviews. We are getting so good at applying all we know about convincing our reader to our reviews of books! On Thursday we partnered up again to give each other writing checkups. Ask your first grader what his/her prescription was for his/her partner and also what his/her partner prescribed to make his/her writing even better. Here is one of our partnerships providing each other feedback:
We completed unit 5 in Math on Thursday and took our unit assessment on Friday. This past week we also did another fluency check. This was a mixed addition/subtraction check in which they had 1 minute to complete 15 problems. These will be coming home. If your child was not able to complete all 15 problems correctly, that is an indication that s/he needs extra practice with addition/subtraction fact fluency within 10. There are numerous apps and online games for your child to practice this important skill.
In science this week we experimented with a solid - baking soda - and two different liquids. Check in with your scientist to first ask about his/her observations of the solid...
and the liquids (hopefully they'll tell you about "wafting"...
Then have them tell you what happened when they mixed the solid with the liquids...
WHOA!!!
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Mark Your Calendars:
March 23: GAME DAY! We have earned a school-wide acknowledgement for following the Stormonth Way! 2,000 BUGS have been earned, so we have earned 2,000 seconds of game time! That's 33 minutes! On Monday afternoon we'll spend 33 minutes with card/board games. If your child would like to bring in a special game on Monday, please feel free. We'll do our best to keep all pieces intact!
Progress Reports come home
March 28: Spring break begins
April 6: First day back
April 7: Referendum VOTE. Please check the district website tab titled
Referendum Update for more information about the referendum.
April 15: Early Release
April 29: Early Release
May 13: Early Release
May 25: Memorial Day holiday
May 27: Early Release
May 28: Schlitz Audubon field trip
June 4: Lion King musical production
June 10: Tentative date for first grade's "Show & Share" family picnic
June 12: Last day of first grade
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