Week of 4/30

Important Items:

• Reminder that all snacks need to be TREE NUT FREE. This is more than just peanut free. Thank you! 
• First grade at Webber is planning a special activity day on May 24th. In lieu of a traditional field trip, we host a special science immersion day here at Webber featuring Dan the Creature Man. This is a chance for our students to expand on their learning in all areas of the curriculum. We may ask for donation or volunteers as our plans become finalized. Watch for details to come!
• Please send in empty cereal boxes this week and next for your students to publish their second series set in writers workshop. Thank you! 

Dates to remember:

5/24 - In House Field Trip
5/28 - Memorial Day, No school for students
6/8 - Half Day for Students

Learning:

In readers workshop students will...

• preview stories to get ready for reading adventures
• use pictures and words to keep track of the setting
• use the story line to predict
• retell to retain the story

In writers workshop students will...

• include chapters and table of contents
• use patterns to help elaborate
• stretch out endings
• have a punctuation party

Mathematicians will...

• explore 2 digit addition
• solve addition with 10's and 1's
• use secret code cards to add

In science students will observe a rainbow through a prism and predict why this happens.

In social studies students will study relative location, human and physical characteristics of places, and how our environment changes. 

Photos from the Week

In science we tested materials to see if they were translucent, transparent, or opaque.

 

Our donors choose grant for more series books in our classroom was funded! Yay! 

Building 2D and 3D shapes using gumdrops and toothpicks!

Practicing fluency and making our read sound really great with Reader's Theater! 

Week of 4/23

Important Items:

Pen and Pencil Drive-Student Council will be collecting new pens and pencils during the month of April to send to schools in Kenya. We appreciate your support!

Reminder that all snacks need to be TREE NUT FREE. This is more than just peanut free. Thank you! 

Dates to remember:

5/28 - Memorial Day, No school for students

6/8 - Half Day for Students

Learning:

This week readers will...

• investigate ways to make their reading sound great
• use punctuation to help make their reading sound right
• try reading in different ways to see what fits best
• work with partners to make their reading sound its very best
• celebrate their hard work

This week mathematicians will...

• construct 3D shapes using toothpicks and marshmallows
• order by length
• measure with length units
• create scenes using 2D shapes
• take the unit 7 test

This week writers will...

• celebrate our first series
• investigate what makes realistic fiction realisitc
• show, not tell using tiny details including feelings
• include chapters in their series books
• use partners to help elaborate

This week in science students will find out what different materials allow light through and what materials reflect light

This week in social studies students will explore maps and globes and learn about location. 

Pictures 

Students listened to a dental presentation last Friday with the other first grade classes

Students decorated cereal boxes to store their series in their very own "box set"

Week of 4/16

Important Items:

We Care Wednesday is April 18th- Earth Day is Sunday, April 22^nd. In honor of this, Webber Student Council invites everyone to wear green and blue to represent the colors of the Earth. Monetary donations will be used to purchase a tree to be planted at Webber.

Pen and Pencil Drive-Student Council will be collecting new pens and pencils during the month of April to send to schools in Kenya. We appreciate your support!

Reminder that all snacks need to be TREE NUT FREE. This is more than just peanut free. Thank you! 

Learning This Week:

Readers will...

• keep track of talking as they read
• not just read words but understand words
• use our own words to replace to new words learned
• use everything they know to get the job done quickly

Writers will...

• begin to write series books
• learn the details that go into book 1 of a series
• develop language in their stories
• have a revision party

Mathematicians will...

• look at attributes of squares and triangles
• find equal shapes
• compose 3-d shapes
• make a picture using 2-d shapes

Scientists will continue to learn about light and shadows.

In social studies we will begin to learn about mapping. 

Photos from the Week:

Making shadows with our hands using light

Our tumble snack we created after reading Tumbleweed Stew