This week in First grade...
Tuesday (4/4): Library Checkout. Please help your child remember to bring their books
Tuesday folders will come home. Report cards will come home. Please sign the
envelope and return it to school on Wednesday. The report card printout is yours to keep.
Wednesday (4/5): Early Release Day school will be dismissed at 12:00pm. We will have lunch in
the classroom on this day.
Thursday (4/6):
Friday (4/7): Reading Homework is due.
Family Fit and Fun Night at 6:30pm
In the future...
No school on Friday, April 14th
This week in Reading Workshop we will be enjoying different stories themed around Chickens. We've been doing a lot of hard work as researchers so we are going to take a week to remember that sometimes readers like to read for entertainment! We will review the things we know about fiction and ways we monitor our comprehension as we read. We will also practice recording our thoughts and feelings about our reading in our Reader's Response Notebooks.
This week in Writing Workshop we will be reviewing different types of writing as we are wrapping up our chicken research. We will write a letter to our future chicks when we review the parts of a letter. We will review ways that writers form a story such as planning the beginning, middle and end. We will also review poetry and write a poem or two about chickens.
This week in Science we will wrap up our coop designs. I will hang them in the hallway when they are complete. We read books about chicken habitats and watched youtube videos about chicken coop designs. Our favorite was Becky's Homestead. Her videos taught us all about chickens and about the different types of coops you can build for your chickens. We are so excited for our babies to hatch! After we wrap up our designs we will move on to mammals. We will learn about mammals movement and body parts. We will learn about their habitats, how they depend on their environment to find shelter and get food and their life cycles.
Have a great week!