Week 36

- June 02, 2019

MESSAGE FROM MS. STAROSTECKI

All Grade One classes will be doing a building unit over the next month. We are asking that students start collecting and bringing in the following materials by MONDAY, JUNE 10th. Raid your blue bags / bins!

paper towel rolls
plastic lids of all sizes
small, clean yogurt / applesauce/ pudding containers
bottle lids / bottle caps

Thank you for your support with this project!

IMPORTANT DATES...

JUNE 5   Early Dismissal @ 2:21pm

JUNE 7 BGRS Track Meet

JUNE 10 Building Science Day Supplies due

JUNE 11    Bike Rodeo, please fill out the permission form on Powerschool.

JUNE 12 Building Science Day (9:10am-11:55am)

JUNE 17    John Walter Museum Field Trip

JUNE 24    School Wide Triathlon

JUNE 25    Free Swim (AM)
Fun Day (PM)

JUNE 26    Grade 1 Summer Walk/Picnic & Splash Park

JUNE 27 Free Swim (AM)
Last Day of School

LANGUAGE ARTS

LISTENING GAMES I read the book Spiders by Gail Gibbons to 1C this week. Our phonological awareness activities were focused around the book last week. An excellent science book by a frequent author. Within the triple borders of black and vividly colored lines framing each page, Gibbons uses deep green and blue backgrounds to set off transparent webs and drab spiders to fine advantage. In a succinct, informative text, she describes some of the 30,000 species of spiders, meanwhile illustrating assorted webs: sheet, tangled, funnel, triangle, and orb. Especially useful are carefully labeled side-by-side drawings of a spider's body and an insect's body.

FAIRY TALE STUDY The students started their Fairy Tale unit by completing a Fairy Tale Journal. Each day, I read a different fairy tale that exposed a different element of a fairy tale. For example, almost all fairy tales...

1. Start with "Once upon a time..."

2. Have 'good' and 'bad' characters.

3. Have royal characters

4. Have a magical phrase or saying throughout the fairy tale

5. Teach a moral or a lesson

Once the Journal was complete, the students began to study the fairy tale Cinderella by rehearsing a Cinderella Readers' Theatre with their group. Later in the week, the students completed a story map with a partner and they had to record the characters, setting and problem of Cinderella.

Lastly, I read a fractured Cinderella fairy tale called, The True Story of Cinderfella. The students compared the two fairy tales and completed a T-chart to show the differences and similarities. On Friday, the students were really excited to create an invitation to the ball for Cinderella.

POETRY

MATH

During the week, the class continues to practice counting by 5s to 100. Be sure to practice at home!

The students in 1C put on their detective hats on to solve yet another Math Mystery: The Case of the Bee Bandits. Once they find the Bee Bandits they will receive a certificate of completion. The whole class has been using multiple math skills to solve each clue. Way to go team!

SCIENCE

The students have been learning all about animals and their habitats. The last couple of habitats they have learned about are polar, desert, rainforest. They drew realistic drawings of all three habitats and an animal that would live in the same habitat. The students drew a narwhal for the polar habitat; a scorpion for the desert habitat; and a parrot for the rainforest habitat. Next week, we will finish our last habitat, wetlands. We will begin discussing and exploring six different types of animals. The students will later pick an animal to research and complete a report on the animal.

SOCIAL STUDIES

Thank you to all of our 1C students that participated in the Grandparent Interview project. The students loved sharing what they found out about their grandparents and what their life was like when they were in first grade.