What an enjoyable week we had! I just cannot get enough of your poets. They are such a talented bunch!
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| We read Naomi Shihab Nye's poem How to Paint a Donkey and drew the image this poem created for us and wrote about the big feeling in the poem. |
We continued to write our own poems during Writer's Workshop this past week. Our focus was on trying out different line breaks and words to make our own music in our poems, using repeating lines or words, thinking about small moments or objects that hold a big feeling for us and writing about that big feeling, and using what we've learned in prior writing units to help us write new poems. Next week, each poet will select his/her favorite poem, and we'll spend time in the computer lab word-processing them for our classroom poetry anthology.
In Reader's Workshop we paid attention to the words poets use to share big messages and feelings, we noticed the details of poems to determine the big meaning or feeling, and we each wrote about why we loved a particular poem, commenting on all of the things we've learned about poems. We also read our latest issue of Scholastic News and got some more practice with identifying the main idea and key details of a nonfiction text.
In Math Workshop, we continued to focus on collecting, organizing, representing and interpreting data. On Thursday we learned about comparison bars. These can be a bit tricky. Remind your child that they are similar to a math mountain - the largest number is on the top bar. We also had some fun with some St. Patrick's Day math games which helped us with fact fluency for addition and subtraction within 10 and adding 3 numbers.
In science we explored what happens when we add baking powder to two different liquids - water and vinegar. Ask your first grader what the results were.
Next week will be our last four days before spring break. We'll spend time in the computer lab; watch our school musical Cinderella; and explore solids, liquids and gases in a fun - and tasty - way! Until then...
Mark Your Calendars:
***Please make note of the new event: FAMILY PICNIC on June 2nd.
March 23rd: Cinderella production will be streamed into our classroom at 2pm
March 25-April 3rd: Spring Break
April 13: Early Release Day
April 19: Schlitz Audubon 11:45-2pm
April 22: No School for Students
April 27: Early Release Day
May 11: Early Release Day
May 25: Early Release Day
May 30: No School
***June 2: FAMILY PICNIC!
Tentative time frame is 11:30-1pm
June 9: Last day of first grade
We love seeing what the kids are up to, thanks for the great post. Have a wonderful spring break everyone! xx, The McGregors
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