March 11-15, 2019

We will have our spring field trip to the Thinkery on May 9, 2019.  We will need 4 parent chaperones in order to comply with the Thinkery’s adult to student ratio. There are still 3 spots available!  Please email me if you are able and willing to attend.  I will send out information to the chaperones once all spots are filled.

This next week will be STEAM week! 1^st Grade’s challenge is called the Humpty Dumpty Challenge. In this challenge, students will work cooperatively to construct the tallest wall possible so that Humpty Dumpty will crack open when he falls. We will use our OWL time to think, design, create, test and redesign if needed. It should be a lot of fun!

This week…

Monday (3/11):  Daily folder comes home.  Return daily!

                     Homework bags home.

Tuesday (3/12):  Library- Check out only

     Tuesday folders come home           

Wednesday (3/13):

Thursday (3/14):

 Friday (3/15): Spring Break begins

This week in Reading…

We will finish up our Poetry Unit. This week we will think about author’s purpose for writing a poem. We will read poems with Alliteration. We will also continue to critique poems, thinking about sensory details, and making mental pictures of poems.

This week in Writing Workshop…

We will finish up our Poetry Unit.  We have written free verse poems, Acrostic Poems, and we are working on our Sensory Poems. We will also write poems using alliteration and rhyme.

This week in Math workshop…

We will continue our addition and subtraction unit.  We will continue to think about how addition and subtraction are related.  We are learning about fact families, missing addends, and how we can think about addition to solve a subtraction problem and vice versa.

This week in Science…

We will be learning about Mammals.  We will learn about the characteristics of a mammal, their body parts, life cycle and how they depend on their environment around them to survive.

This week in Social Studies…

We will be talking about goods and services. We will discuss the difference between a good and a service, and we will think about different jobs in our community that produce goods and/or provide services.

Our Life Skill of the week is Responsibility!

That’s all for now! Have a great week!

Important Dates:

Mar. 11-15- STEAM week

Mar. 18-22- Spring Break

Mar. 27- Author Visit: Liz Scanlon

Apr. 9- STAAR testing- No Visitors

Apr. 19- No School

Apr. 26- Field Day

Apr. 29-May 2- Book Fair

May 9- Field Trip to the Thinkery

May 13-15- STAAR testing- No Visitors

May 23- Last Day of School