On behalf of all teachers and staff at Caraway, we thank our wonderful first grade parents and families for throwing such a fantastic Festive Friday for us! Thank you all for your thoughtfulness and generosity. The food was wonderful and delicious, the picnic tables were so beautifully arranged, and the weather couldn't have cooperated better. Thank you for all that you do for us!
REMINDERS
Tuesday:Tuesday folders come home. Please sign the folder and return it the next day. Thank you!
SPRING PICTURE ORDERS ARE DUE!
Friday: Homework completed- It is that time of year when we begin collecting all books that are out. Therefore I will no longer be sending books home for reading homework. If you have books out please send those in. I will send emails out next week for titles I know are still missing. Keep reading, use books from the library, home and RAZkids. Keep working on math skills with IXL, Math 3 Under the Sea, Johnnie’s Math Page and more. You can visit these sites from our Caraway Home Page…Students…Math.
SPRING PBL PROJECT
This spring, our first graders will research and investigate ways to grow non-traditional gardens. They will discuss and brainstorm ideas to educate and help our community and families to grow non-traditional, yet sustainable gardens.
Whether we live in a house or an apartment, we can find small spaces that don't require as much space and resources and plant a vegetable garden to meet our needs or at least part of our needs. In the spirit of Earth Day, being "Green", reducing and re-using, we will come up with some small, efficient, and transportable gardens.
FOR OUR PROJECT WE WILL NEED CONTAINERS DONATED. PLEASE SEND IN ITEMS SUCH AS 2 LITER PLASTIC BOTTLES, PLASTIC GALLON JUGS, AND/OR PLASTIC FRUIT CONTAINERS (SUCH AS STRAWBERRY OR BLUEBERRY). THANK YOU!
READING
We have been learning about different genres and this week we will learn about some of the beloved children's stories and their authors. Authors have different purposes in their writing. Some try to inform and teach us and some try to entertain or humor us. Authors have different styles in their writing and illustrations. Leo Leonni uses paper collage for his illustration, and his stories have animal characters. Tomie Depaola's stories are mostly about his childhood. Jack Ezra Keats' stories also take place in his childhood neighborhood. The children will understand and appreciate that real authors are ordinary people that take ordinary events in their lives and turn them into extraordinary stories.
WRITING
We will work to revise, edit and publish our small moment writing. We will emphasize complete sentences, capitalization and punctuation, and using or first grade word list to spell the sight words correctly.
MATH
This week we will use base ten blocks, pictures, and expanded and standard forms to represent numbers up to 120. We will use concrete and pictorial models to compose and decompose numbers to 120. For example 117 is made of one 100 block, one ten block and 7 ones. We will generate a number that is greater than or less than any given number up to 120.
SCIENCE
As part of our PBL project, we will learn about plants, their parts and the function of each part. We will learn that roots carry the water and nutrients from the soil, stems hold up the plant and transport the nutrients and water from the roots to other parts of plant and leaves make food. We will also learn about the plant life cycle and discuss things that plants need to grow such as good soil, water and sun.
THANK YOU!