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- Field Trip - On Tuesday, May 21st, the first grade team will take a field trip to Varner Hall at Oakland University to see a performance of James and the Giant Peach. All students will need a lunch from home with a drink on this day. We will eat lunch in the classroom. If you wish to order a bag lunch from the cafeteria, please let your teacher know by May 10th.
- You're Invited - On 5/15 at 7:45 am we will be having a breakfast celebration for the end of our realistic fiction writing unit. Please see the hard copy in your students FROG binder for more details. Please sign up here if you would like to donate food for our celebration.
- Please send in empty cereal boxes this week! We will be using them to publish our "box set" in writer's workshop.
- Donors Choose Project for more series books!
Save The Date:
- 5/10 - Half day for students
- 5/15 - Writing Celebration 7:45 am
- 5/21 - First Grade Field Trip to Oakland University to see the play James and The Giant Peach 9:00-12:00
- 5/27 Memorial Day - No School for Students
- 6/7, 6/14 - Half day for students
Learning this week:
- Writer's will...
- use their superpowers to work with greater independence
- have a punctuation party
- create illustrations that tell details
- write a "meet the author" page for their series
- Reader's will...
- look for clues in their book that help them know how to read the story
- give feedback like a director
- reread to smooth out their voices
- discover the lessons familiar stories teach
- Mathematicians will...
- explore 2 digit addition
- learn multiple methods to solve 2 digit addition
- solve addition of 10's and 1's
- Scientists will...
- complete their sound assessment by creating instruments out of recyclable materials. Their instrument must create sound!
- In phonics we will...
- studying the capitalizing of expert authors
- study and fix wise errors
- practice lowercase letter formation
