OUR FIELD TRIP TO AUSTIN NATURE CENTER WAS A SUCCESS!
We had a great day at Austin Nature Center on Thursday. The children had the opportunity see many live birds, mammals and reptiles and learn more about these animals.
HOMEWORK
Homework will continue to be IXL practice and reading RAZkids or favorite books from home.
REMINDERS
Tuesday: Tuesday folders come home. Please sign and return the next day. Thank you!
Wednesday: Library –Book Fair this week
SUMMER BIRTHDAYS
Our class will celebrate summer birthdays with a birthday bracelet, birthday pencil and birthday song (as we have school year birthdays) the last day of school. If parents of children with summer birthdays would like to send a snack to celebrate please email me to choose a day between now and the end of year party (optional).
READING and WRITING
This week we will write about our families. We will think about each member of our family, and things they like and are interested in doing and write about those things. We will review writing conventions such as capitalization, punctuation and correct sentence structure. Please review the first grade sight words in your child's blue agenda and be sure to practice those at home. Your child needs to spell those words correctly before going to second grade.
In reading we will read some of our favorite fiction books and review some important comprehension strategies such as retelling the story, putting the events in the order that they happened and making inferences.
MATH
In math we will review strategies for addition and subtraction and apply those strategies in problem solving. If you are practicing problem solving with your child at home, please be sure the steps such as drawing a picture to show the problem, the relevant addition and subtraction number sentences, and words to explain their thinking are all shown on the paper.
SOCIAL STUDIES
This week we will continue our unit on goods and services. Goods are produced and services are provided in our community. We will identify and discuss examples of goods and services, ways people exchange goods and services and the role of market and services in our community. As part of media literacy, we will learn about advertisement and how people advertise for either goods or services in our community.