Week of 5/29

END OF YEAR NOTES

Please have your student bring back their baggie of "take home books." Students will not be taking anymore books out of the classroom for the remainder of the year. I will check off students name as the take home book bags come back. If you misplaced your bag of books please consider sending in $5 so I can replace them. Thank you! 

If you would like a 1st to 2nd grade summer work packet please email me and I will place it in your students FROG binder. I will not be printing one for each student.

Summer Birthdays - If your student has a summer birthday and wants to celebrate with our class please let me know. I will pick a date and we will make your student a birthday book, sing to them, and give them a birthday crown. Sending in a small trinket or pre-packaged nut free birthday snack is OPTIONAL!

DATES TO REMEMBER

• 6/1 - Bummer Summer
• 6/5 - Field Day 
• 6/8 - Half Day for Students
• 6/14 - Ice Cream & Movie Celebration PM

SUMMER TUTORING

If you are interested in having me tutor your child this summer once or twice a week at the Orion Township Library, please contact me for details!

SAFARI DAY PICTURES

Week of 5/21

SAFARI DAY!
First grade is planning a special activity day on May 24th, Safari Day featuring  Dan the Creature Man here at Webber.

It is time for our last Box Tops collection and competition of the 2017-2018 school year!  This collection will run from MONDAY, MAY 21 through FRIDAY, MAY 25. 

DATES TO REMEMBER

• 5/24 - In House Field Trip - Safari Day 
• 5/28 - Memorial Day, No school for students
• 6/5 Field Day 
• 6/8 - Half Day for Students
• 6/14 - Ice Cream & Movie Celebration PM

SUMMER TUTORING

If you are interested in summer tutoring once or twice a week for your child this summer at contact me for details!

LEARNING THIS WEEK

Readers will...

• learn that character's feelings change throughout a book
• retell how the character's feelings change
• use clues, like punctuation marks, to know how to a story

Writers will...

• write a book review
• write a movie review
• write a restaurant review

Mathematicians will...

• participate in math stations involving 2 digit addition
• review telling hour and half hour time
• review 2d and 3d shapes
• find math in the real world

The 3 photos below show the three methods to solving two digit addition problems. Your students drew a picture and wrote words explaining how each method works. 

"First we added 9 and 3 and it made 12 so we put the one above twos and added the twos and one and got three. And the total was fifty two."

This group's explanation was on the back. In the show all totals methods, students break apart each two digit number into tens and ones. They then add the decade numbers first  (20 + 20), then add the ones (3 + 9), then add both sums together (40 +12) to find the total. 

"First we wrote the problem then we drew our ten sticks and ones. then we counted all the 10 sticks and ones." (they also made sure to make a new group of 10 out of their ones).

Newsletter for 5/14

SAFARI DAY!

• First grade is planning a special activity day on May 24th, Safari Day! In lieu of a traditional field trip, we will host Dan the Creature Man here at Webber. 
• If you are willing to send in $2-$3 by May 18^th, I would appreciate it. I would love to get the students safari hats and provide some special treats for our Safari Day.
• Please send in empty toilet paper tubes so we can make binoculars for our Safari Day.

Dates to remember:

5/24 - In House Field Trip - Safari Day 

5/28 - Memorial Day, No school for students
6/8 - Half Day for Students

Readers will...

• learn about characters by noticing their relationships
• make characters talk more
• reread to learn more about characters
• become their characters

Writers will review opinion writing again. They will...

• give lots of reasons
• add details
• talk back
• use sparkly words
• quote experts

Mathematicians will continue to practice two digit addition. 

Scientists will explore how sound and light can keep you safe.

Week of 5/7

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 by Tuesday for your student to publish their second series set in writers workshop. Thank you! 

Dates to remember:
5/10 - 7:45am Writing Celebration

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

Readers will...

• revisit books to notice more
• reread to notice pages that go together
• learn about the main character
• sound like the characters in the story

Writers will...

• have a punctuation party
• use illustrations to tell important deatils
• create a meet the author page
• create their box set for their second series
• celebrate realistic fiction writing with families

Mathematicians will...

• continue practicing all three methods to solve 2-digit addition problems

In social studies students will continue to learn about places, how to change our environment, and adapt to our environment. 

Pictures

This week, Mrs. French (Eni's mom) came to speak to us about being an author! Mrs. French is the author of a children's series, Portia Parrott and a young adult series, The Breeders. We learned about creating characters, creating a setting, creating a problem, and figuring out a solution to help us with our own realistic fiction writing. 

We will read aloud the first book in the children's series above. You can purchase the rest of the series on Amazon if interested! 

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"