Week 29

- April 14, 2018

REMINDERS

SCHOLASTIC BOOK ORDER due on April 19th.

DENTAL HYGIENIST VISIT on April 19th.

SPRING SEASONAL WALK on April 27th.

EARLY DISMISSAL on May 2nd.

BIKE SAFETY from May 14 to May 17th.

NO SCHOOL (PD DAY) on May 18th.

NO SCHOOL (VICTORIA DAY) on May 21st.

SWIMMING LESSONS from May 22 to June 1st.

LANGUAGE ARTS

LISTENING GAMES I read the book, Make Way to Ducklings by Robert McCloskey to 1C this week. Our phonological awareness activities were focused around the book this week. It's not easy for duck parents to find a safe place to raise their ducklings, but during a rest stop in Boston's Public Garden, Mr. and Mrs. Mallard think they just might have found the perfect spot. When Mrs. Mallard and her eight ducklings are stuck at a busy street in downtown Boston, their policeman friend Michael rushes in to stop traffic and make way for them. This classic won the Caldecott Award in 1942.

WORDS THEIR WAY Throughout the week, the students reviewed the reviewed the consanant blends "cr" "cl" "fr" "fl" with words such as cracker, crown, clam, clown, frown, frame, flower, flat. The students chose to draw a flamingo to illustrate the "fl" blend.

DAILY 5 The Grade 1's are working towards staying focused for 15 minutes during each of their centers during Daily 5. During Daily 5, they complete all of their centers including Read to Self, Read to Someone, Listening to Reading and Word Work. Keep up the hard work Grade 1!
While they reading the students are practicing the Tryin' Lion, Skippy Frog, Flip the Dolphin, Chunky Monkey, Stretchy Snake, Eagle Eye, Lips the Fish strategy.

Tryin' Lion Try it again! Re-read the sentence. Try a word that looks and sounds right.
Skippy Frog who skips the word. Reads to the end of the sentence. Hops back and re- reads the sentence.

Flip the Dolphin tries the short vowel. If it doesn't sound right, flip the sound to the long vowel and try it again.

Chunky Monkey looks for hunks and chunks they know inside a word.

Stretchy Snake reminds the students to "S-T-R-E-T-C-H" it out and to say each sound slowly then say it fast.

Eagle Eye serves as a reminder to look at the pictures for clues when reading a book.

Lips the Fish looks at the beginning and ending sound of a word.

HOME READING The books will be exchanged every Friday. You may also read books from home or the library, just make sure you log it! Our classroom goal is to read (or have a book read to us) at least 7 books per week.

LIBRARY Please bring back your child's library book each Monday so they may exchange it for a new one.

MATH

This week, 1C learned how to solve addition word problems with three addends and sums within 10.
Also, they learned about the commutative property of addition: the flip-flop strategy. Flipping two addends provides us with the same sum.

At the end of the week, 1C taught 1D some math games we have been learning in class.

SCIENCE

The students learned about the season of spring. Even though the weather is not reflecting the season of spring our class did an awesome job brainstorming all of the things you can do, feel, see, and hear in spring. As a class, the students came up with a lovely acrostic poem about spring.

SOCIAL STUDIES

This week the students explored characteristics of URBAN, RURAL and SUBURBAN communities. The students provided examples of people, places, things and animals you can find in each of the communities.
They created a mural to show the difference between urban and rural communities.