Week 28
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 bring in a rock (no bigger than a hand) to create a whole school project centered around the book, Only One You.
- 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.
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
April 17 -Easter Monday (No School)
April 18 -PD Day (No School)
April 19 -Scholastic Book Order due
April 21 -Earth Hero Day
- Please bring in a rock (no bigger than a hand) to create a whole school project centered around the book, Only One You.
- 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.
Language Arts
I read the book, Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens, to 1C this week. Our phonological awareness activities revolved around this book. This is a new tale about an old lesson...if you're going to be lazy, others will outsmart you,which is exactly what Rabbit does to Bear after he chooses to be lazy instead of work. Every time, Rabbit outsmarts Bear until he finally realizes he needs to stop being lazy if he wants to get anywhere as a farmer. 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 "dr" "tr" "pr" blends. They sorted words such as dragon, drip, dream, dress, track, trap, triangle, pretzel, price, prize, pray. The students did a guided drawing of Toothless the Dragon.
During Writer's Workshop, the students continued with the unit, Fairy Tale and Realistic Fiction Writing. This week, the students worked on their fairy tale ending. Keep up the great work!
I read the book, Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens, to 1C this week. Our phonological awareness activities revolved around this book. This is a new tale about an old lesson...if you're going to be lazy, others will outsmart you,which is exactly what Rabbit does to Bear after he chooses to be lazy instead of work. Every time, Rabbit outsmarts Bear until he finally realizes he needs to stop being lazy if he wants to get anywhere as a farmer. 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.
During Writer's Workshop, the students continued with the unit, Fairy Tale and Realistic Fiction Writing. This week, the students worked on their fairy tale ending. Keep up the great work!
Math
The students learned about the 'flip flop' strategy. We can flip any addend in an addition equation and get the same answer. In addition to the "flip flop" strategy, the students learned that addition and subtraction have an inverse relationship. An addition equation is made up of two parts to make a whole. A subtraction equation is taking one part away from the whole to get the other part. A fact family is four equations that use the same 3 numbers (part-part-whole).
Science
This week, the students began their Building Things unit. The students provided examples of fasteners and provided examples of building materials. They used their knowledge of fasteners and building materials to build three different houses based on the fairy tale "The Three Little Pigs".
Social Studies
This week we completed our "I Can Take Care Of..." project. The students brainstormed ideas of how human can take care of our planet. They described ways to take care of flowers, animals, water, trees and the air.
Have an awesome Easter long weekend!
This week we completed our "I Can Take Care Of..." project. The students brainstormed ideas of how human can take care of our planet. They described ways to take care of flowers, animals, water, trees and the air.
Have an awesome Easter long weekend!
