Upcoming Dates and Reminders-
Please send in an empty cereal box for your child sometime in the next two weeks. (see writing)
Please send a towel back to school with your child. With the nice weather, hopefully, we’ll be able to learn outside more again!
Monday, April 26- PE
Tuesday, April 27- Library, Art
Wednesday, April 28- STEAM
Thursday, April 29- Music
Friday- April 30- PE
Mystery Reader-
Connor and Palmer’s Mom, Mrs. Harring, was our virtual Mystery Reader this week. She read us My Grandma Lives in Florida. Sign up for a “Virtual Mystery Reader” slot by clicking this link. Only 2 slots left!!! Please let me know if there is another time or day you would like to come in, we are completely flexible and would love to have everyone “in” that is able and willing. You can also record a video of yourself reading a book if you are not available during the day.
📚 Scholastic Book Orders
Orders due this week. We’ll have one more after this for the year. There is an option to have it shipped to your house. As soon as you create/pay your “send to my house order” it will finalize and ship to you. Otherwise, it should arrive early May.
Connect to Our Class Page: https://orders.scholastic.com/QQJNN
Class Code: QQJNN
Shop the flyers with your child
Class Order Due Date: 4/30/2021.
Celebrations-
Star of the Day – Four friends were Star of the Day this week- Maddy, Brayden, Hazel, Ruby
Quote of the Week – This week’s quote went to Mr. Rob, our school custodian. He does a great job taking care of us and our school. He is one of the most caring people we know and our school always looks great!
First Grade Family Time – At the assembly, we celebrated our learning, gave awards for the quote of the week, along with awards for lost teeth, shoe-tying, & birthdays from the week. Here are our “award-winning” first-graders from today’s family time.
Happy Birthday, Ryan!
OUR LEARNING:
Writing – This week students created their very own character that they will use for their realistic fiction series! They used a character web to describe what the character looks like, where he/she lives, and what kind of trouble he/she could run into! Students began writing book one of their series. I was blown away by their creativity! For this unit, our final project will be creating a series boxed set. We would greatly appreciate the donation of cereal boxes for this project over the next two weeks!
Word Study – We began a new bend of our unit and learned all about capital letters this week. First graders learned that we need capital letters at the start of a sentence, the start of the name of a person or place, the start and end of a letter, the word I, and starts of dates.
Reading– We are wrapping up our unit on Getting to Know our Characters. The week readers worked to retell- identifying the beginning, middle, and end of what they read. We also focused on finding our stories’ problems and solutions. This was a great connection to writing and helped to give us ideas for the stories we are writing.
Math- We completed our first quiz of the unit which you should have seen come home earlier this week! We also began learning how to compare within a story problem with the help of comparison bars. Comparison bars are very similar to math mountains, but instead of trying to figure out a partner or total, we are comparing to see who/what has more/less and how many more/fewer. We will be taking our test for this unit next week and then starting telling time. Practice looking at analog clocks with your kiddo. (to the hour and half hour)
Collecting and analyzing data
Social-Emotional– We started a new Social-Emotional Unit this week- Respect and Anti-Bullying. The unit kicked off with a story about Little Penguin encountering a bully and learning to handle the situation.
Earth Day Fun- we made a “dirt” snack”, got to take a live virtual field trip of our adopted cow, Snowflake’s farm, and we did a fun shaving cream craftivity! Thanks to all who sent items in and for all your continued to support. It was a FUN day!!
