March 6-10

Hello families!
We enjoyed another speedy week in first grade! Here's a sneak-peek...

During Writers' and Readers' Workshops, we began our poetry mini-unit. It is one of my favorite units of the year! I LOVE seeing the amazing creativity that poetry brings out of first graders and have been so impressed this week with the poems they've written. 

We each spent some time with a shell, writing some notes about it. I then took all of their ideas and created a group poem. You'll see this poem at our family picnic in June when we share our poetry anthology with you!

We explored our shells using our senses!

Later in the week, we selected new items to write about from our Poetry Museum.

We read poems together during Readers' Workshop and experimented in small groups with line breaks in poems. 

During Math Workshop this week we reviewed for our unit 5 assessment then showed what we know on our assessment on Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday were spent on math rotations while individuals worked on test corrections/review with me. On Friday we continued to review place value concepts in small groups.

During Science, we completed our final wheat observation. We then began a new investigation: How can we make a new plant from an old one? We learned a new word: node. Ask your first grader what a node on a plant is. 

Ask your first grader what s/he thinks will happen to our plant cuttings.

Darius was our Star of the Week, and for his talent he shared his knowledge about volcanoes. What a special treat it was when his mom brought in volcanoes for all of us!

 

Due to the power outage this past Wednesday, many of you will need to reschedule your parent-teacher conference. An additional day and extended hours on the two existing conference days have been added to the online signup which can be found at http://www.foxbay.k12.wi.us/els/. If you haven't rescheduled yet, please visit the site to do so. Thank you so much and my apologies for the inconvenience.

Please remember to sign and return your child's conference envelope. the report card is yours to keep.

Next week we're looking forward to welcoming some of Beglan's Irish Dancers to Stormonth!

Until then...

Mark Your Calendars!

Monday, March 6th: Report Cards some home. Please remember to sign and return the manilla envelope. Thank you!

*Monday, March 13th: JUMP ROPE FOR HEART! 

*This is the corrected date. 

Tuesday, March 14th: Irish Dancers performance

Wednesday, March 15: Parent-Teacher Conferences 4-6:30

Thursday, March 16th: Parent-Teacher Conferences 4:00-8:00PM

Saturday, March 18th: Rolling on the River event

Wednesday, March 22: Early Release Day

Parent-Teacher Conferences 3-7:00PM

Thursday, March 23: Musical (2pm & 6:30pm)

Monday, March 27-Friday, March 31: Spring Break

Wednesday, April 12: Early Release Day

Friday, April 14: NO SCHOOL

Monday, April 17: NO SCHOOL/Teacher In-Service

Wednesday, April 26: Early Release Day

Thursday, April 27th: Field Trip to Growing Power 9-11:45am

Monday, May 8th: Field Trip to the Milwaukee County Zoo 9am-2pm

Wednesday, May 10: Early Release Day

Thursday, May 11th: Guest author Lester Laminack joins us at Stormonth!

Wednesday, May 24: Early release Day

Monday, May 29: NO SCHOOL

June 1: BMS Musical "Into the Woods"

Tuesday, June 6th: SAVE THE DATE!!! 

Annual Family Picnic! 11:30-12:40

Thursday, June 8: Last day of First Grade! 

See you later, Second Grader!