It was a great Family Dinner Night. Thank you, PTA, for your continuous support! We are truly lucky to have such a dedicated PTA and wonderful parents at Caraway!
EDUCATION GO GET IT WEEK:
Tuesday: Wear your favorite university t-shirt.
Wednesday: Dress for success, dress up like the job you want to have.
Thursday: When we graduate we wear caps and gowns. Today wear your favorite cap.
Friday: Caraway t-shirt (remember all careers begin at Caraway!)
FIELD TRIP TO ZACH THEATER
Our filed trip to Zach Theater is on Friday, March 11th. If you have sent your permission slip and transportation fee, thank you! And if you haven't gotten a chance to do so, please send the permission slip along with 4 dollars transportation fee ASAP.
Please don't forget to send lunch and snack on Friday. We will eat lunch in the classroom before we leave for the theater. We will not be able to order lunch from the cafeteria due to not eating lunch at lunch times.
SHAMROCK' N ROLL RUN
First grade will run/walk for Shamrock'n Roll on Friday at 8:40-9:30. Please consider joining your child to walk/run laps with them. Parents/grandparents can collect extra points for their child's class. Come to the track and meet us there at 8:40. Be sure to sign in your name and your child's class at the track before running/walking laps.
REMINDERS
Tuesday:Tuesday folders come home.
All first grade teachers are out due to district business.
Friday: Shamrock' n Roll (8:40-9:30). Field Trip
March 14-18: Spring Break (No School)
Enjoy your spring break! Lainey (my 3 year old daughter) started enjoying the spring weather at the kite festival this past Sunday!
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.
READING AND WRITING
This week we will continue reading poems and using strategies that help us to understand poetry better. We will work on visualizing and making a mental picture in our mind. This strategy can also help us to understand other genres such as stories/fiction better. As we read the author's/poet's description about how the character's look, their actions and other details, we will try to picture them in our mind so we can have a better understanding of the poem/story. Poets often use sensory language such as words describing the sound, look, smell, taste or feel of something. Sensory words help the readers create a better picture in their mind as they read poetry. In writing, we will continue to write short poems.
MATH
This week we will learn about 3-D shapes. We will identify three-dimensional figures such as spheres, cones, cylinders, rectangular prisms (including cubes), and triangular prisms and describe their attributes using geometric language such as flat surface, curved surface, having corners (vertices) or not any corners, being able to stack or not. We will look at everyday objects around us and compare them to the 3-D shapes that we are learning about.
SCIENCE
In science we will continue learning about living things. Our focus will be on mammals and their external characteristics (body parts and cover). We will learn how these external characteristics determine where the mammals live, what they eat and how they move. We will also learn about interdependency and see how animals and plants in one habitat depend on each other to survive meet their needs.