FAMILY DINNER NIGHT
Family Dinner Night is on Saturday, March 7th at Canyon Vista Middle School. This event is one of the biggest fundraising events that our devoted PTA organizes every year. Please consider coming by to have fun and show your support. Most importantly come and see who is the lucky teacher that is going to kiss a pig! This year the five nominees are: Mrs. Sanders, Mrs. Bailey, Mr. Cook, Mrs. Schultze and our librarians (Mrs. Letendre and Mrs. Hendrickson). Good luck Teachers!
Family Dinner Night is on Saturday, March 7th at Canyon Vista Middle School. This event is one of the biggest fundraising events that our devoted PTA organizes every year. Please consider coming by to have fun and show your support. Most importantly come and see who is the lucky teacher that is going to kiss a pig! This year the five nominees are: Mrs. Sanders, Mrs. Bailey, Mr. Cook, Mrs. Schultze and our librarians (Mrs. Letendre and Mrs. Hendrickson). Good luck Teachers!
READING
This week we will work on a few comprehension strategies that help us to understand the stories better. We will work on visualizing a story and making a mental picture in our mind. As we read the author's description about how the characters look, their actions and the setting of the story, we will try to picture them in our mind so we can have a better understanding of the story. Authors often use sensory language such as words describing the sound, look, smell, taste or feel of something. Sensory words help the readers to create a better picture in their mind as they read the stories. We will also work on re-reading the parts of the story that we didn't understand. If we are confused about a part or couldn't make sense of it, we need to go back and re-read again.
WRITING
We will continue writing our stories that could be part true and part not real and based on our imagination. The children are having so much fun with these stories! As we are writing our stories, we will keep in mind to revise and edit as we go. We will add to parts of our stories that need more details and take off the parts that are repeated and not needed. We will also watch for capital letters at the beginning of the sentences, correct punctuation and sentence structure and spelling the first grade sight words correctly.
This week we will work on a few comprehension strategies that help us to understand the stories better. We will work on visualizing a story and making a mental picture in our mind. As we read the author's description about how the characters look, their actions and the setting of the story, we will try to picture them in our mind so we can have a better understanding of the story. Authors often use sensory language such as words describing the sound, look, smell, taste or feel of something. Sensory words help the readers to create a better picture in their mind as they read the stories. We will also work on re-reading the parts of the story that we didn't understand. If we are confused about a part or couldn't make sense of it, we need to go back and re-read again.
WRITING
We will continue writing our stories that could be part true and part not real and based on our imagination. The children are having so much fun with these stories! As we are writing our stories, we will keep in mind to revise and edit as we go. We will add to parts of our stories that need more details and take off the parts that are repeated and not needed. We will also watch for capital letters at the beginning of the sentences, correct punctuation and sentence structure and spelling the first grade sight words correctly.
MATH
This week in math we will spiral back to subtraction and reinforce count on strategies. Children are encouraged to use a variety of strategies to solve subtraction problems. In first grade we want to make sure that they have a wide range of strategies to choose from. Count on strategies are basically "think addition" strategies in subtraction problems. We will apply our subtraction strategies to solve math problems.
SCIENCES
This week in science we will learn about living and non-living, ecosystem and the inter-dependency of animals and plants in their ecosystem. We will learn about the external characteristics of animals and how these external characteristics such as body parts and body coverings determine what the animals eat, how they move and where they live.
This week in math we will spiral back to subtraction and reinforce count on strategies. Children are encouraged to use a variety of strategies to solve subtraction problems. In first grade we want to make sure that they have a wide range of strategies to choose from. Count on strategies are basically "think addition" strategies in subtraction problems. We will apply our subtraction strategies to solve math problems.
SCIENCES
This week in science we will learn about living and non-living, ecosystem and the inter-dependency of animals and plants in their ecosystem. We will learn about the external characteristics of animals and how these external characteristics such as body parts and body coverings determine what the animals eat, how they move and where they live.
HABIT #2: Begin with the End in Mind: I plan ahead and set goals. I always look for ways to be a good citizen.
REMINDERS:
*Specials- A Group: PE on Monday, Wednesday and Friday
B Group: PE on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday
**Wear tennis shoes for sure on these days!!!!
*Library- Tuesday 11-11:30
*Send orange folders and homework bags back every day.
*Send a healthy snack with your child every day. We will eat snack at 10:30
DATES to REMEMBER:
*Specials- A Group: PE on Monday, Wednesday and Friday
B Group: PE on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday
**Wear tennis shoes for sure on these days!!!!
*Library- Tuesday 11-11:30
*Send orange folders and homework bags back every day.
*Send a healthy snack with your child every day. We will eat snack at 10:30
DATES to REMEMBER:
March 7: Family Dinner Night
March 11: Early Release @ 12:45
March 16-20: Spring Break
March 25: Eggs get here!
April 2: Science Night
April 3: No School
April 10: Family Fun Night
April 15: Chicks start to
hatch!!!!!!!
May 1: Field Day
May 4-8: Teacher Appreciation Week
May 7: Field Trip to Austin Nature
Center
May 11-15: Book Fair
May 14: Caraway Fine Arts Night
May 21: Volunteer Breakfast
May 25: No School, Memorial Day
June 4: Last Day of School, End of
the Year Party
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