March 20-24, 2017

I hope everyone had a restful and fun Spring Break! This week will be very exciting in First grade! Our eggs will arrive on Wednesday and our incubators will be hard at work for 21 days! This is such a wonderful experience for our students...and Ms. Smith LOVES it too!  I will send pictures when the babies finally begin to hatch!

Reminders:

Monday (3/20):  Self Selected reading @ home

Tuesday (3/21): Reading Homework will come home.  It is due on Friday.

                        Library Check-out.                          

      Tuesday folders will come home. 

Wednesday (3/22): Skate Night 6-8pm

Thursday (3/23): Field Trip to the Zach Scott Theatre. Please send a lunch from home.

Friday (3/24): Parent Community Coffee 7:45am

Looking Ahead...

Next week our campus will be closed on Tuesday, March 28th and Wednesday, March 29th.  We will not have volunteers or lunch guests on these days. 

April 1st - Family Dinner Night

This week in Reading and Writing Workshop...

We will be starting our learning about chickens.  We will be using our workshop time to research and investigate chickens and their habitats.   As part of a Project Based Learning Unit we will design chicken houses. We will need to know a lot about chickens so we know how to design the best house for them.  We will be reading, writing and recording our thoughts as we work through this project.

This week in Math...

We will be learning about the relationship between addition and subtraction.  We will learn that fact families can help us learn our math facts and make solving problems easier.  We will practice solving problems using objects and pictorial models to make our learning more concrete.  

This week in Science...

We will continue our study of animals as we move on to Birds.  We will learn about how different types of birds depend on their environment.  We will learn about how bird's bodies adapt their needs. We will study their habitat and life cycle.  

Have a great week!

DATES TO REMEMBER:

March 22:  Eggs Arrive!

                Skate night- Playland Skate Center @ 6:00 pm

March 23:  Field Trip to ZACH Scott Theater

March 28-29:  STAAR Testing- No Visitors on Campus

April 1:  Family Dinner Night

April 5:  Early Release Day @ 12:00 pm

April 7:  Family Fun & Fit Night @ 6:30 pm

April 12:  Hatch Day!

April 14:  Spring Holiday- No School

April 22:  Earth Day Clean up

April 26:  Playland Skate Center @ 5:30 pm

May 1-5:  Teacher Appreciation Week

May 8-10: STAAR Testing- No Visitors on Campus

May 15-19:  Book Fair

May 18:  KnOWLedge Night @ 5:30

May 19:   Field Day

May 26:  Career Fair

May 29:  Memorial Day- No School

June 1:  Last Day of School- End of the Year party