Notes for Parents:

• Please continue to read with your child for 20 minutes, 5 times a week!
• If you are interested in donating an item for our Earth Day celebration, you can sign up here.

CELEBRATIONS:

Quote of the Week – This week’s quote went to ADALYN for always including others and making everyone feel like they belong!

First Grade Family Time – Here are our Family Time award winners from this week!

OUR LEARNING:

Writing – This week we began our new writing unit, From Scenes to Series! We will be learning how to write well-elaborated realistic fiction stories throughout this unit. Our class worked together this week to develop a character and we began a shared writing together. You can support your writer at home by asking your child about the character, what the character’s problem is, and how the problem is solved. 

Word Study – We took a special look at our snap words this week, and we studied some of the words that may be extra tricky. We sometimes make bloopers with these words because the spelling doesn’t necessarily match the sounds in the word. (ex: might doesn’t sound like “m-ig-h-t”). We also got a special delivery from Rasheed that helped us build big compound words with some of our snap words, such as “something” and “anywhere.”

Reading – We are still in our unit about Getting to Know our Characters.  This ties in well with our new writing unit as we can take the stories we are reading and imagine a new story for the character.  This week we used all we know to solve tricky words. We kept practicing and didn’t give up when the words got hard. We used the pictures in our stories to help us better understand our story.  We also worked on our retell skills, highlighting the characters, setting, and story events. 

Math – We began Unit 6 this week which covers comparisons and data. The kiddos learned some new vocabulary that will help them throughout this unit. We focused a lot on sorting different items and comparing the data to figure out which groups had the most/more or fewest/fewer.

Upcoming Dates:

• Monday, April 19
  •  MUSIC
• Tuesday, April 20
  • PE
• Wednesday, April 21
  • ART
• Thursday, April 22
  • STEAM
• Friday, April 23 
  • MUSIC
  • Early Release
  • Earth Day Celebration