Hello,
Welcome back! I hope everyone had a relaxing and enjoyable break! We ended last week with another successful egg crack off. This is such an exciting event for students. See below for photos. This year our very own Brennan was the school champion! Way to go Brennan. We'll have to get egg boiling tips from the Novys for next year's crack off.
Upcoming Events:
Friday, April 8th: Knowledge-A-Thon
Tuesday, April 12th: Family Night-Science, Social Studies and Subs 5:30-7:00. A note is coming home today.
Monday, April 18th-No School-Inservice for teachers
Curriculum Updates:
Readers' Workshop: This week first graders are really digging deep into their roles as directors and actors. Readers are getting ready for partnerships by marking up the most important parts of their books and noting how the characters are feeling and what they are thinking. We will also be trying out scenes in several different ways to see which one best gets at the character's real feelings. Readers will spend some time remembering what it means to be a successful reading club member by thinking about how o be a good listener, how to take turns speaking, giving one another proms and how to talk off of each other's ideas.
Writers' Workshop: We are finishing up our "Writing Like Scientists" unit. Writers will work on planning and conducting one last experiment with their partners. We will also be conducting one more experiment as a class. We will be ending our unit on Friday and next week will be starting our next unit, From Scenes to Series:Writing Fiction.
Math Workshop:. 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. We will be completing our end of the unit assessment on Friday.
Science/Social Studies: We'll be learning more about US symbols this week. We'll spend some time reading about symbols and taking notes on our learning. Then, students will have the chance to learn even more about a symbol of their choice. Some of the symbols we will study are: Bald Eagle, Liberty Bell, Statue of Liberty, The Flag, as well as other symbols students want to learn more about.
We also start Junior Achievement this week. A volunteer from a local business comes into our classroom once a week for 5 weeks and conducts a lesson that lasts about 30 minutes. JA programs focus on the skills necessary for students to develop work readiness, financial literacy and entreprenuerism all at the first grade level. The program is designed to be interactive using practical hands on activities that reinforce key concepts to prepare and inspire students to succeed in a global economy. The title of the first grade program is: Our Families.
Our Families® emphasizes the roles people play in the local economy and engages students with activities about needs, wants, jobs, tools and skills, and interdependence.
· Concepts–Business, Choices, Consumers, Economic institutions, Employment, Family, Incentives, Income, Interdependence, Jobs, Needs, Resources, Scarcity, Skills, Tools, Voluntary exchange, Wants, Work
· Skills–Analyzing information, Decision-making, Differentiating, Drawing, Following directions, Interpreting symbols, Listening responsively, Making observations, Map reading, Matching, Teamwork
Word Study: New words this week are: animal, can't, wont. Words will be assessed this Friday, April 1, 2016
As always, let me know if you have any questions.
Kathy Zobel
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