Week 34 Updates

Upcoming Dates:

- Monday, May 9 – Gym
- Tuesday, May 10 – Art
- Wednesday, May 11- STEAM, Library, Please send in Baggie Books
- Thursday, May 12 – Music
- Friday, May 13 – Gym

Later Dates:

Tuesday, May 17 – John Ball Zoo Field Trip
May 27 & May 30 – NO SCHOOL (Memorial Day weekend)

Notes for Parents:

I hope you all have a wonderful Mother’s Day weekend and you enjoy the sweet gift your child made for you!
Please send in a cereal box with the top flaps cut off for your child’s character series writing (with his/her name on it). It should be large enough to fit a piece of paper.

Celebrations:

Star Students – Hayden, Bryson, and Mila enjoyed lunch with Mrs. Cooley this week.

Mystery Reader – This week Sophia’s mom read us Dangerous! Thanks for coming in!

First Grade Family Time – At the assembly, we celebrated our learning and birthdays from the week. We also give awards for the quote of the week, lost teeth, and shoe tying.

This week the quote was- “Throw kindness around like confetti.”

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!

Math – We learned all about equal shares this week! The kids learned how to divide shapes into halves and fourths. We also played around with shapes and realized that we can create new shapes by putting different shapes together. The kiddos were also introduced to 3D shapes which included sphere, cylinder, cone, cube, and rectangular prism.

Reading – This week we started a new unit talking all about Text Features we find in NonFiction books. Things like the table of contents, fun facts, and maps are different kinds of Text Features. We focused this week on Titles and Table of Contents.

Word Study – This week we learned from our bloopers when we read. We focused on the mistakes we make when we read. We tried a few tricks to help us remember tricky words like Big Elephants Can Always Understand Small Elephants to spell BECAUSE and Father And Mother, I Love You to spell FAMILY.

Safari Day- We had fun creating an animal writing about how we are wild about first grade! We enjoyed a goldfish treat and we started practicing our measuring by using rulers to measure animals.