The First Grade P.E. program time has been changed. Please join us Tuesday February 2nd at 6:20 pm in the cafeteria. This is a chance for our first graders to shine and show some of the skills that they have been practicing this year. Please meet in the cafeteria.
VALENTINE'S DAY PARTY
The Valentine’s Day party will be on Friday, February 12th (1:30-2:30). Have your child make a small valentine for each classmate. You may choose to buy these or have your child make their own valentines. Please make a valentine for each student in the class (A class list was sent home in last week’s Tuesday folder.) The students can start bringing their valentines to school starting the week of Feb 8th.
REMINDERS
Tuesday: Tuesday folders come home. Please return signed Tuesday folders on Wednesday morning.
Wednesday: Early Release Day (dismissal at 12:45). Library Day-please return library books by 8:00 am Wednesday.
Friday: Homework is due.
HOMEWORK
Look for leveled books in book bags. These books are at an independent level for your child so they will need little support reading the books. Ask your child to retell the story and ask your child questions about the story.
I have also sent home a “Time for Kids’ magazine. We have been learning the nonfiction text is written by the author to teach us. After reading the magazine the students can complete the related activity page. Please return the activity page Friday. Keep the magazine to enjoy again and again.
Look for math homework in tomorrow’s Tuesday folder.
READING and WRITING
We will continue our guided research unit. This week we will review the research process, pick a topic that we are interested in, think about what we want to know about our topics, look at different resources, and non-fiction texts to find new information, take notes in our own words, and then present our findings in an organized form so others can use our information and learn from our research too.
MATH
This week we will connect addition and subtraction by introducing fact families, part-part- whole, and missing addend. The parts join together to make a whole (addition). If we know the whole and a part, we can find out the missing part using both addition and subtraction. We will use our knowledge of part-part-whole to solve a variety of math problems.
SCIENCE
We will continue learning about our natural resources such as water, rocks, soil, trees, sun, air and more. We will brainstorm and discuss why it is important to conserve these natural resources. We will start the week by exploring water; its properties, its movement, and uses. Why is it important to conserve fresh water? Why is it important not to pollute water? What are the different natural sources of water?
THANK YOU!