This week in First Grade many exciting things are happening. We are going on our field trip to Maybury Farm on May 15. We will leave school at 9:30 a.m. We will return to school right before lunch. We will be busy as bees visiting the Honeybee Farm. We have been reading about bees and other insects all week. We will have a great time.
In reading we are continuing to read a lot of non fiction books, but we are also reading a few fun ones. We read Diary of a Fly which shared a fly's days over the summer. It included facts about flies and we learned flies have thousands of screens that are his eyes.
We also read Owen by Kevin Henkes. We discussed the vocabulary words: essential and vinegar. We talked about how food is essential to living things, the students made great connections!
In writing we are working on All Abouts for non fiction writing, the students learned how to put a diagram in their books. We discussed how some non-fiction books have a glossary or a special words page at the end.
In math, we are about half way through Unit 9. We have worked on adding two digit numbers and today we will go back to working on fractions. We will have a Unit 9 test next week.
In Science we are anticipating an adult insect very soon. Our first pupa is almost two weeks old. We have learned that the larva molts its skin many times before turning into a pupa. We were able to watch one pupa do its last molting before changing right before our eyes.
Please continue to work on insect reports and mark the calendar for June 2nd. We will be sharing reports and insect models that day with parents here in school.
Have a great week!
Mrs. Scheck
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