Week 27

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Reminders 

April 14                 -Good Friday (No School)
April 17                 -Easter Monday (No School)
April 18                 -PD Day (No School)
April 19                 -Scholastic Book Order due
April 21                 -Earth Hero Day
  • Please make sure your child is reading their home reading book, record and send back to school each Monday. Any additional books that your child reads may be recorded in their R.E.D. folder reading log. 
  • 1C has library time on Thursdays. Please bring your library books in by Thursday so that your child can take out a new library book.
Congratulations to our Student of the Week!

Language Arts

I read the book, April Foolishness by Teresa Bateman, to 1C this week. Our phonological awareness activities revolved around this book. It's spring morning on the farm, Grandma is happy the grandkids are visiting - they've picked just the right day! - and Grandpa is fixing breakfast. Suddenly his grandson reports that the cows have got loose! He thinks Big Brown Bessie just stepped on a goose! "Good gracious," Grandpa says as he pours himself glass of milk. When his granddaughter shouts the chickens are out. Grandpa cooks up some eggs. Pigs broke the gate? Grandpa fries bacon. Why is Grandpa so cool? Because he knows the kids are trying to play an April Fool's trick.  1C continues to work on  Phoneme Addition (i.e. "Lane. Add /p/ to the beginning of lane. What's the word?"), Phoneme Substitution (i.e. "Rope. Change /r/ to /s/. What's the new word?" and Phoneme Deletion (i.e. "Say trouble. Say trouble without the /t/.") You can try any these activities at home with your child.
Throughout the week, the students explored the "bl" "br" "gr" "gl" blends. The students did a guided drawing of a blowfish.

During Writer's Workshop, the students continued with the unit, Fairy Tale and Realistic Fiction Writing. This week, the students reviewed the elements of a fairy tale and began writing the beginning and middle of their fairy tale.

Math

The students learned about making ten and doubles to 12 (Doubles! Doubles! Song). Next week, we will begin counting by 5s to 100.

Social Studies

This week, the students recognized how people depend on the environment for survival.
The students discussed ways they can take care of the planet and started on a new project based on their discussions.

Some photos from our busy week...

John Walter Museum
 

 


 



 
 
 

 



















Golden Greenhouse
 





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Enjoy the weekend!

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