Fabulous First Grade

This is the last week of school.

Monday:  testing finishes; we finish author studies

Tuesday:  awards ceremony–10AM. Water activities, 1-2PM, pizza party to follow in the classroom.

Wednesday—PBIS water games, 1-2:30; class party 2:30-3:30 in class. All class essentials and supplies will be sent home today. Students should bring their bookbags Thursday because report cards go home that day.

Thursday–last day. This is a full day of school. Report cards go home. Happy summer!

Friday—teacher clerical day

Enjoy the summer break!!!

Reading:  We are reading stories from our reading series.   We are focusing on the main idea.  We are working on all skills in writing (capitalization and punctuation, descriptive words) and sharing our writing with others.

Math: We are equality then starting calendar skills.

Science:  We will work in our notebooks and review skills daily.

Social Studies:  We will review all skills daily.

Notes: We will be working out of our science and social studies interactive notebooks for our review. A schedule will be sent home to allow you to help review the skills before the quizzes.

Progress reports go home May 8.

Field Day is Friday, May 4, 1-3PM

Reading:  We are reading several stories from our reading series.   Our word skills this week are long u digraphs (-ew and -ue). We are using the 5 Whs (question words): who, what, where, when, why, and how; beginning, middle, and end of the stories we read, and the main idea of nonfiction texts.  We are working on capitalization and punctuation in writing, as well as sharing our writing with others.

Math: We are working on equality and true/false number sentences.

Science:  We are reviewing water and matter; we will assess Friday and then begin our end of the year review.

Social Studies:  We are reviewing goods and services as well as consumer and producer. We will assess Wednesday and then begin our end of the year review.

Notes:  New homework and study guides are on the blog page and in the red folders. Progress reports go home May 8.

Field Day is scheduled for May 4. Students will be playing games outdoors for the afternoon. Sunscreen should be applied at home. Students can bring water bottles as well.

Welcome back from break!

Reading: We are starting a new unit from our learning series, with vowel digraphs of long a (-ai and -ay). Our writing skills will focus on research.

Math: We are focusing on graphs and data. Students will make bar graphs, tally graphs, and picture graphs. Students will collect data and turn the data into graphs and then read the information on the graphs.

Science: We will be focusing on water (1.3) and its properties. Students need to know what mixes with water, what dissolves with water, and that temperature affects how fast things dissolve in water.

Social Studies: We are working on our economics unit. Students need to know about goods and services, and consumers and producers. 

Reading: We have started Unit 4 in our Reading Street series with Mama’s Birthday Present. The word skills are long vowel patterns of /a/, including -ai and -ay. Writing skills will finish with sharing our writing and using descriptions. We will do some spring writings, such as acrostic poems, as well as simple stories/narratives.

Math:  We will be working on graphing. Students need to be able to do bar graphs, picture graphs, and read graphs.

Science:  We will be studying water. Students need to know that water is a liquid, things can dissolve or separate in water, and that temperature affects how fast things dissolve in water.

Social Studies:  Our social studies unit will focus on goods and services and consumers and producers.