Notes for Parents:

• For our realistic fiction writing unit, our final project will be creating a series boxed set. We would greatly appreciate the donation of cereal boxes for this project! Please send in any empty cereal boxes with your child between Monday, April 26th and Friday, May 7th.
• Scholastic Book Club orders are due Thursday, April 29th.

CELEBRATIONS:

Quote of the Week – This week’s quote went to NORA for taking great care of the Earth!

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

Earth Day – On Friday we celebrated Earth Day! We did a virtual visit with our adopted cow, Daisy, made “dirt,” watched The Lorax, and made a craft.

OUR LEARNING:

Writing – This week students created their very own character that they will use for their realistic fiction series! They used a character web to describe what the character looks like, where he/she lives, and what kind of trouble he/she could run into! Students began writing book one of their series. I was blown away by their creativity! For this unit, our final project will be creating a series boxed set. We would greatly appreciate the donation of cereal boxes for this project over the next two weeks!

Word Study – We began a new bend of our unit and learned all about capital letters this week. First graders learned that we need capital letters at the start of a sentence, the start of the name of a person or place, the start and end of a letter, the word I, and starts of dates.

Reading– We are wrapping up our unit on Getting to Know our Characters.  The week readers worked to retell- identifying the beginning, middle and end of what they read. We also focused on finding our stories’ problems and solutions.  This was a great connection to writing and helped to give us ideas for the stories we are writing. 

Math- We completed our first quiz of the unit which you should have seen come home earlier this week! We also began learning how to compare within a story with the help of comparison bars. These are very similar to math mountains, but instead of trying to figure out a total we are comparing to see who has more/less and how many more/fewer. We will be taking our test for this unit next week.

Social-Emotional– We started a new Social-Emotional Unit this week- Respect and Anti-Bullying.  The unit kicked off with a story about Little Penguin encountering a bully and learning to handle the situation.  

Upcoming Dates:

• Monday, April 26
  •  MUSIC
• Tuesday, April 27
  • PE
• Wednesday, April 28
  • ART
• Thursday, April 29
  • STEAM
  • Scholastic Book Club orders due
• Friday, April 30 
  • MUSIC
  • Library