Happy Friday! First week back from spring break and the students were SO excited to be back at school. They came with all of their energy and excitement sharing with me all of their activities from Spring Break.
This Week:
Reading: For our Read to Self and Read to Someone time, I introduced a new assignment in their Reading Journal. After their reading time, they have to answer some questions in their journal. This is my way of keeping track of the books they read and to see if they are understanding the different reading strategies.
We also started learning about Fairy Tales! We learned that fairy tales usually have a good opening (Once upon a time…) a good ending (and they all lived happily ever after), royalty (kings, princesses), love, good characters, bad characters, and special numbers or repeated phrases. We read the story of Rapunzel and found out that is has all of those! Wow! We are excited to keep reading more Fairy Tale stories next week.
Our spelling words this week were all from the -ar and -or families. We did an activity on Thursday where we tried to find as many words with the different word endings. The students found a lot!
Math: This week we finished Unit 8 of Math. We are continuing to learn about fractions with sharing groups of pennies equally. This will lead us into equivalent fractions later. We also are practicing with adding and subtraction by 10, as well as symmetry, and double digit addition and solving addition and subtraction problems. Wow, great job 1st graders!
Writing: This week we learned the different parts of writing a letter. We learned that you start with the Heading, Greeting, Body, Closing, and Signature. Next week we will practice writing a letter together!
Bible: This week we have been going through the Children’s Bible learning about all the stories of Jesus. We are reading some super cool miracles that Jesus did! Healing the sick people, making the blink man see, raising a girl from the dead, walking on the water!!! WOW! Jesus is so awesome!!
TONIGHT: Family Reading Night!! Come out at 6:30 for some fun and books! The teachers will be reading books and you can come with your family to do some activities together!
Next Week:
Spelling Words: hurt, verse, fern, dirt, burn, first, bird, turn, her girl, great, again, who
Bible Memory: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.” Deuteronomy 6:5
Tuesday - April 21 WE NEED YOUR HELP FOR KID’S CITY! If you are available after school on Tuesday, please come to my classroom because we need your help with preparing some things for Kid City.
Friday - April 24 FIELD DAY - I do not know all the information yet, but you are invited to come watch your child perform on Field Day. I will let you know the time as soon as I find out.
Upcoming Events:
April 27-29 Terra Nova Testing - For these days, please make sure your child gets plenty of sleep on those nights. Please also send a nutritional snack with your child to school these days (cheese, crackers, fruit, senbei etc). We will have a snack time in the morning between tests.
April 29 - Kid City! WE NEED YOUR HELP FOR THIS DAY TOO!! If you are available to help, we need parents to help from 12:00-3:00 with Kid City. We need the parents to stamp the students cards as they finish the tasks as well as help students with making change at the various stations.
May 5th - No School
May 6th - Parent Observation 2:00-3:00
May 8th - 1st Grade Field Trip to Kodomo no Kuni Zoo
