REMINDERS
Monday: Reading bags come home. Please respond to one story in the reading response notebook.
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
Early Release Day- Dismissal is at 12:45
Friday: Reading Homework is due. Scholastic online book orders are due.
March 16-20: Spring Break
READING
This week we will work on another important comprehension strategy: making inferences. Sometimes, authors don't give the reader every bit of information. They might just give the reader clues or hints about something. When this happens, the reader needs to make an inference. An inference is a thoughtful guess. We put the hints and clues together and tell things that were not told in the text in so many words. We will ask the children: After you read this, what can you tell?
WRITING
What great imaginations our first graders have!! We have added exaggeration and/or fantasy elements to our personal narratives. It is so much fun to read the stories of these amazing writers! This week while wrapping up our imaginative stories, we will also work on a few writing conventions. We will review the structure of a complete sentence with the emphasis on verbs and nouns. Verbs are action words that could happen in the past, present, or future. Nouns are the names of people, places or things. A noun can be singular or it can be plural.
MATH
We will continue our unit on subtraction and applying different strategies to solve problems. This week we will emphasize on the "missing addend". If I have 12 pennies and I need a total of 20 pennies to buy a pen, how many more pennies do I need to buy the pen? Some children may think addition and some may think subtraction to solve this problem. Both strategies are correct. This week we will also review pennies, dimes and nickels and their attributes.
SCIENCE
We will continue learning about living and nonliving things, ecosystems and the interdependency of animals and plants in their ecosystems. Last week we learned about the external characteristics of mammals and how these characteristics determine what the mammals eat, how they move and where they live. This week we will learn about birds, their external characteristics, life cycle and the interdependency in their ecosystems.