Dear parents,
This week in first grade we were very busy! I cannot believe it is almost the end of 2015 and a new year will be starting soon.
In reading this week we read The Snowy Day and practiced retelling the story. We also read the book Too Many Toys by David Shannon. The character in the story had A LOT of toys and had to give some away. We learned these vocabulary words: catastrophe and inconsiderate. We wrote about how Spencer was inconsiderate when he left his toys all over the house.
In math, we took a Unit 3 test. The test was given over two days. We began unit 4. A family letter will come home tonight. Unit 4 is all about Measurement. We practiced today measuring with paper strips and unifix cubes. We will continue Monday using different objects to measure length.
In writing, we have learned how to put sound words in our story and we practiced adding flaps after reading The Gingerbread Baby By Jan Brett. We will wrap up this unit on Monday and begin a new unit in January called "Writing for Readers."
In Science we have worked with Solid objects of varying size and we put them into bottles using a funnel. We observed how some objects moved slowly and some moved fast. We talked about how the size of an object can vary. A bottle could hold more smaller pieces than larger pieces. We also saw how the rice in the bottle stuck to the size with static electricity.
We are looking forward to our Winter Holiday Party on Tuesday at 11:00-12:30. Students will have fun playing games, making a craft and we will eat some yummy pancakes.
Have a great weekend everyone!
Mrs. Scheck
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