TUTORING- If you are interested in summer tutoring for your child please contact one of our excellent tutors below. Most of them will be holding sessions here at GES.
Bethany Gates (2nd Grade Teacher) bgates1@hpseagles.net (Tues/Weds)
Abbi Garrison (4th, previous first-grade teacher) agarriso@hpseagles.net (Weds)
Karyn McIntire (Instructional Paraprofessional) kmcintir@hpseagles.net (Mon-Thurs)
Achieve Tutoring, Jenison; 616-916-8989
📞 I’ll be continuing to make end-of-the-year phone calls over the next two weeks.
Upcoming Dates and Reminders-
Monday, May 10- STEAM
Tuesday, May 11- Library (last week to check out), Music
Wednesday, May 12,- PE
Thursday, May 13- Art
Friday, May 14- STEAM
Mystery Reader- 
Mrs. Baskel read us the Slumberkins book- Hammerhead. Sign up for a “Virtual Mystery Reader” slot by clicking this link. ONE slot left!!!
📚 Scholastic Book Orders
The last one! Thank you so much to all who ordered this year. We were able to purchase so many more great books for our class. 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 at the end of May or the last week.
Connect to Our Class Page: https://orders.scholastic.com/QQJNN
Class Code: QQJNN
Class Order Due Date: 5/19/2021.
Celebrations-
Star of the Day – A few friends were Star of the Day this week- Abbey, Anastasia, and Kennedy B. They were able to snuggle with our stuffie friends.
Quote of the Week – This week’s quote went to Mrs. Elders. She is our amazing first-grade parapro and has provided invaluable reading intervention and support for all of our kiddos. She is one of the kindest people you will meet.
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.
Abbey turned 7 this week!
OUR LEARNING:
Writing – In writing this week we added some new tools to our writing toolboxes! We learned how to “show not tell” by adding tiny realistic details. Later we learned all about repetition and the importance of patterns in writing. Next week we will wrap up our realistic fiction writing unit and students will publish their very own boxed book series!
Word Study – In first grade, one of the best ways for students to learn something new is through play and practice! We practiced the proper use of capital letters through lots of different word games this week. Please encourage your child to capitalize proper nouns and the start of each sentence when they’re writing at home!
Reading– This week in reading we learned about main characters and supporting characters too! This was a great tie in to our writing as it has been so fun creating our own characters. We also talked about changing our voices when our character’s feelings change and looked for clues on how to read our stories.
Math- This week we focused on telling time to the hour and the half-hour. The first Unit 7 quiz came home. We then started on with shapes. We discussed the attributes of rectangles, squares, triangles, and circles. We look at equal parts of these shapes.
Social-Emotional– This week we studied diversity. We talked about family stories and differences from around the world.
All the first-grade students celebrated our lunch workers this week by creating flowers to say thank you. It says Thanks bunches for our lunches!
