Welcome back! I hope everyone had some fun on Spring break and got out to enjoy the beautiful weather the last few days. Spring is finally here!
This week in First grade we are moving on to a lot of new units in math, science and writing.
In reading, we will be studying characters and how they move and behave. We will notice how authors show characters feelings. I will be reading books that have characters that the students can use to help in the their own writing, we will read Twilight Comes Twice by Ralph Flecther this week.
In writing, we have been busy publishing stories from the Authors as Mentors unit. I have been typing their stories up and the students have been illustrating them. We will share our finished stories later this week. Starting tomorrow, we will begin working on Realistic Fiction stories. We will continue to read a lot of books that will provide strong examples of the new genre.
In math, we have begun Unit 8, the family letter went home yesterday. We will be focusing again on money. We have been counting coins and playing coin top it in class. We will also be discussing place value to the 100's place. We will make the connection between ones and pennies, tens and dimes and dollars and 100's.
Our new science unit is beginning this week, we will be discussing insects and what we know about them. We already began today by writing down what we think we know about insects. Tomorrow we will write the things we want to learn about them. Real, live insects will be arriving the middle of next week! This is an exciting time, we will be caring for and studying the insects from now til June. We will learn what their needs are to survive and how they go through metamorphosis. We will watch several insects go through a complete metamorphosis!
The field trip note went home last night, I have many parents that wish to chaperone. I will be emailing the parents that I need for the field trip tomorrow. Thank you for your quick responses.
Have a great week!
Mrs. Scheck
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