Weekly Updates March 21-31

Hello,

I can’t believe it’s the last week of March. The year is truly flying by. I’m looking forward to meeting with families tonight or Thursday to share the progress of first graders so far this year. Keep practicing those KAT questions. And don’t forget to turn in your permission slip for our PAC field trip if you haven’t already.

Here is the sign up link for Knowledge-a-thon​:

http://signup.com/go/TNwaqh

Timber Rattlers Reading Program: Remember, if your child is participating in Fang’s Reading Club and completes the 2 week reading assignment, fill out the the corresponding Fang and bring him back to school. If your child completes all the the assignments, he/she will earn a complimentary ticket to the Timber Rattlers game on June 11th at 1:05 PM.

Upcoming Events:

3/28 & 3/30: Portfolio Conferences 4:00-7:00
3/29: Wacky Hair Day
4/3-7: Dress Up Days- See Below

4/7: KAT in the AM, PAC field trip in the PM
4/11: Egg Crack Off- Look for a note to be coming home soon!

KAT Week Dress up days April 3-7th

Monday Brewer/Sports Day

Tuesday Dress as a question or answer to KAT question

Wednesday Pajama Day

Thursday Superhero Day

Friday Dress Fancy

Reading: We will be finishing up our character unit this week. Students have been working hard on making 3 star predictions. Three star predictions include a prediction before we start reading, another prediction when we start to notice the trouble, and another prediction about when the trouble starts to get fixed. We also give evidence for our predictions, and check in to see if we were correct, kind of correct or if the author surprised us!

Writing: Students are doing an amazing job writing realistic fiction stories. They are giving their characters troubles and then fixing the troubles. We are using what we know about adding action, feeling and dialogue to make our stories come alive!

Word Work: The new words this week are: say, well, give, again, please. Please have your child practice these words on a regular basis. As they become fluent with them, it’s helps them with their reading and writing.

Math:  We’re going to be spending a couple more days on comparison problems and using comparison bars as this concept was a little tricky for first graders. At the end of the week we will be moving on to two digit addition!

Content: We are continuing our study of US symbols. Students have begun to research a symbol of their own by themselves or in small groups using nonfiction books and pebblego. You can access Pebblego from home if you’d like. The username and password are both electa. Students have dug right into their research and are very excited about what they are learning!