Hello,
We had a successful Authors' Breakfast last week. Students appreciated the compliments about their writing. They are even more motivated to write their lab reports!
Upcoming Events:
Thursday, March 17th-Field Trip to the PAC to see The BFG. Feel free to dress nicely for this event!
Monday, March 21st and Tuesday, March 22nd-Portfolio Conferences.
Wednesday, March 23rd-End of Third Quarter
Wednesday March 23rd-Monday March 28th-Spring Break
Friday, April 8th: Knowledge-A-Thon
Curriculum Updates:
Readers' Workshop: We finished up the last part of our unit by teaching kindergarten friends about the books we've been reading. We prepared paper "fortunes" for our friends with the life lesson from our book and gave it to them during our celebration. We started out by introducing our book, telling about the characters and the big events, passed along the lesson and read a bit of our book. See below for photos of us sharing our learning with the kindergartners! This week and next week we will be digging deeper into our character work. We're going to spend some days reading our books as if we were characters and learning the job of a narrator. At the end of the week we will be joining character clubs in which partners will read several books with the same character to really get to know the characters well. We'll even be spending some time acting our books out! Ask your child what character he or she is planning on getting to know even better!
Writers' Workshop: We are continuing our "Writing Like Scientists" unit. Last week first graders had an opportunity to plan, conduct and write about their own experiments! What a huge success. We are working on recording our results by writing "I notice..." and "I see.." to say even more. We're also trying to be accurate on recording the steps we took for our experiments so other people could try them and see what results they give. We've been trying to rehearse and practice each step adding as much detail as we can. This week we will plan out another experiment using what we've learned from our first experiments, as well as what we noticed other scientists using. It appears that mixing some liquids can cause some over flowing! I'm excited to see the new combinations this week.
Math Workshop: We're continuing our Comparisons in Data unit this week. Students conducted and and represented data with their own surveys last week. This week we will continue working on solving comparison problems. We are using comparison bars to help us solve these problems and discussing comparison language such as more and fewer. We also continue to work on our fact fluency-solving addition and subtraction equations within 10.
Next week we will be completing the assessment for this unit.
Science/Social Studies: We'll be finishing up our solids and liquids unit this week. We'll be using everything we learned about the properties of solids and liquids to help us compare the two. We'll also complete a short assessment to show what we have learned!
Word Study: New words this week are: first, next, again. Words will be assessed this Friday, March 18.
As always, let me know if you have any questions.
Kathy Zobel
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