Here are a few reminders for this week:
REMINDERS
Monday: Please use RAZkids for reading this week. A short reading passage and questions will also be included in the Tuesday folder.
Tuesday: Picture Day! 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 due. March 27th Shamrock'n Roll Run at 9:40
SOME NEW EXCITEMENTS IN FIRST GRADE:
It is that time of the year! Each first grade class will be hosting eggs. Our incubators are up and running. We are expecting our eggs to arrive sometime this week. We will then put the eggs in the incubators and patiently wait for 21 days for our eggs to hatch. This is a part of the animal unit and our first graders will get to observe the life cycle of birds first hand right in our classroom! It will be an exciting time for all of us!
READING and WRITING
This week we will start a unit of research. Our focus will be chicks. We will determine what we want to learn from a source and stretch our thinking. Readers wonder more as they learn and read more. We will learn how we can go to different sources (such as books, reliable internet sources, or experts) to find out the answers to our questions. In Writing, we will continue to record our findings and learnings, to create a book where others can read and learn from our research.
MATH
This week we will have a review of the concepts. We will review coins (pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters), and their values and attributes. We will also review time to the hour and half-hour.
SCIENCE
We will continue learning about living and non-living, ecosystems and the interdependency of animals and plants in their ecosystems. This week we will focus on fish, their external characteristics and how these characteristics determine where the fish live, what they eat and how they move. We will also learn about the life cycle and the interdependency of fish and other animals and plants in their ecosystems.