The first grade through third grade talent show was amazing! It was full of wonderful performances. I enjoyed seeing the talent of our students on display. Thank you for participating and supporting our talent show!
SCHOLASTIC BOOK ORDERS
Look for book order in tomorrow’s Tuesday folders. To order please go to scholastic.com/readingclub and enter our Class Activation Code. HDB2X Search by item number, add to cart, pay by credit card or debit card. Please do not send checks to school.
OR
https://orders.scholastic.com/HDB2X
All orders are due Friday, March 13th by the end of the school day.
FAMILY DINNER NIGHT
Family Dinner Night will be Saturday, March 7th at Canyon Vista Middle School. This event is one of the biggest fundraising events that our devoted PTA organizes every year. Please come by, have fun and show your support if you can! Most importantly come and see the lucky teacher that is going to kiss a pig! This year the five nominees are: Mrs. Sanders, Mrs. Bailey, Mr. Cook, Mrs. Schultze and our librarians (Mrs. Letendre and Mrs. Hendrickson). To vote for your choice bring coins to add to their bucket! Good luck Teachers!
REMINDERS
Monday: Reading bags come home. Please choose a response in the Reading Response Notebook to complete.
Tuesday: Tuesday folders come home. Please return the signed Tuesday folder the next day.
Wednesday: Library Day. All library books are due by 8:00 AM
Friday: Homework is due.
Saturday: Family Dinner Night starting at 5:30
March 11: Early Release at 12:45
March 16-20: Spring Break
READING
This week we will be working on comprehension strategies that will help us understand stories. We will work on visualizing a story and making a mental picture in our mind. As we read the author's descriptions of characters, settings and actions, we will try to picture them in our minds so that we may have a better understanding of the story. Authors often use sensory language, words describing the sound, look, smell, taste or feel of something. Sensory words help the readers create a better picture in their minds as they read the stories. We will also work on re-reading the parts of the story that we didn't understand. If we are confused about a part or couldn't make sense of it, we need to go back and read again.
WRITING
We will continue writing our stories that are part true and part fantasy (exaggerated). The children are having so much fun with these stories! As we are writing our stories, we will keep in mind to revise and edit as we go. We will add to parts of our stories that need more details and take off the parts that are repeated or not needed. We will also watch for capital letters at the beginning of the sentences, correct punctuation, sentence structure and spelling the first grade sight words correctly.
MATH
This week in math we will spiral back to subtraction and reinforce count on strategies. Children are encouraged to use a variety of strategies to solve subtraction problems. In first grade we want to make sure that they have a wide range of strategies to choose from. Count on strategies are basically "think addition" strategies in subtraction problems. We will apply our subtraction strategies to solve math problems.
SCIENCE
This week in science we will learn about living and non-living things, ecosystem and the interdependency of animals and plants in their ecosystem. We will learn about the external characteristics of animals and how these external characteristics (such as body parts and body coverings) are related to what the animals eat, how they move and where they live.
Thank You!