HATCHING CHICKS
Our classroom was filled with the sound of excitement and chirping chicks on Friday! We were able to watch one chick “break out” of his shell. This has been a great opportunity for the kids to observe part of the life cycle of chickens in the classroom. Today we spent some time observing the chicks in their classroom habitat and they will soon be sent to a farm to grow up.
REMINDERS
Monday: Spring Photo orders are due (if you are interested)
Tuesday:Tuesday folders come home. Please sign the folder and return it the next day. Thank you!
Wednesday: Library day. Please return library books by 8:00 am.
Friday: All homework to be completed.
HOMEWORK
Look for books in the book bags sent home today. Continue to retell the story, answer questions and make connections to the book. In math work on IXL this week. Money, Fractions and Time are skills to review at this time.
READING
We will continue our genre study and we will review and learn more about different genres of fiction such as traditional literature, fantasy, and realistic fiction. Traditional stories are stories that are passed down from one group to another in history. They include fairy tales, fables, and myths from different cultures. Fantasy are stories filled with imagination and magical and realistic fiction are stories that although they might have made up characters, they could happen in real life.
WRITING
We will finish up our small moments writings. We use revise and edit to make our writing better. We will add correct capitalization, punctuation, and spelling for first grade words.
MATH
Earlier in the year we learned about telling time to the hour and this week we will focus on telling time to half-hour. As part of fraction and partitioning two dimensional figures into two or four equal parts, we will use a circular analog clock and understand time to half hour. We will look at both analog and digital clocks and learn that time is shown differently on each of these clocks. The short hand in the analog clock points to the "hour" and the long hand points to the "minute". In digital clock time is shown by digits. The digit before the colon shows the hour and the digits after colon show the minutes.
SCIENCE
This week we will celebrate Earth Day! We will discuss about the importance of natural resources and why we need to conserve natural resources, reuse, recycle or reduce. The students will think about why it is important to conserve fresh water, recycle materials and not to pollute the environment.
THANK YOU!