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"
