REMINDERS
Tuesday: Tuesday folders come home. Please return signed Tuesday folders on Wednesday morning.
Wednesday: Early Release Day. Dismissal is at 12:45. Library Day! Please return books by 8:00 am.
Friday: Homework Due
Saturday: Family Dinner Night@ 5:00/6:00
March 11- Field Trip to ZACH Scott Theater
March 14-18: Spring Break
March 25: Holiday
LOST AND FOUND
Stop by lost and found (temporarily located by both main doors). There are many jackets, sweaters, books and more!
HOMEWORK
For Reading this week visit RAZ kids. Please go to https://www.raz-kids.com/ --- go to kids login, green box--- enter teacher username, tbyrne9--- go to your child's name---then enter student password, your child's birthday in number form, for example 01012008. I will be adding new reading assignments so click on "reading assignment" for the appropriate leveled books. Read for approximately 15 minutes for homework assignment (no need to read all books that show on assignment this week.) . RAZ kids allows you to visit all reading levels, easy books are fine to read for enjoyment. Too hard books are discouraged. After reading the book students should answer comprehension questions as well as reflect on the text. Skills we are working on in groups include (but not limited to)... summarizing (retell the sequence of events, understand important ideas, understand the problem and solution), predicting (using background knowledge to understand what might happen next), making connections (think of experiences, books and other learning related to the text), synthesizing (differentiating between what was known and new information, expressing a change in ideas after reading the text), Inferring (understand characters, their feelings, and cause and effect based on evidence in the text).
For math visit IXL. It is great to get the email updates on all of the valuable first grade skills practiced.
READ ACROSS AMERICA WITH DR. SEUSS
This week we will honor the life and work of Dr. Seuss. Read Across America is a nationwide reading celebration that takes place annually for Dr. Seuss Birthday. We will read Dr. Seuss biography and learn about his life. We will also read some of his most beloved stories such as The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham and Oh! The Places You'll Go! We will retell the stories, make connections and discuss the characters. In writing we will spiral back to writing stories. Being motivated by Dr. Seuss writing, we will write stories about real or imagined people, events, and ideas.
MATH
We will continue our unit in geometry. Last week we learned about different shapes and their attributes such as number of sides, corners, straight sides or curved lines. This week we will sort the two dimensional figures based on these characteristics. We will also explore how two-dimensional figures can be decomposed into or constructed from other two-dimensional figures (for example two triangles can make a diamond or a rhombus).
SCIENCE
We will finish up our unit in social studies and move on to science. In science we will learn about living and non-living things and the characteristics of each. Living things have needs, grow/change, and produce offspring. Non-living things don't have these characteristics.
THANK YOU!