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Our Weekly  Learning                   Date 5-10-13

News and Information

The students had a great time watching the movie for our Reading Challenge reward. They even had a mini concession stand during intermission. We are winding down the school year, but we still have concepts to cover before second grade. We will celebrate our school year with an Honors Assembly Monday, May 20^th at 9:00 a.m. We will have Field Day that afternoon. Please remember to send sunscreen for your child.

Reading

We worked on a book called What Pet Should You Get?  during shared reading. We reviewed fact and opinion, and we also reviewed adjectives.

Math

We finished up our unit on fractions of shapes and took our last unit assessment. I was pleased with the results of this assessment.

Word Work

We took our last word work assessment of the year. The words were tough, but the students worked hard and did well on this assessment.

Writing

This week we wrote an opinion piece. We also reviewed adjectives and practiced adding pronouns into our writing.

Week of MAY 13, 2012

We will have a sight word assessment next week. This last one only has 10 words: saw, rain, brother, eat, teacher, favorite, said, friend, they, and night.  There is a list in the communication folder, so please practice these words with your child. I will give the assessment on Wednesday, May, 15^th. In math we will finish our year with a variety of activities to reinforce basic addition and subtraction facts.  In writing, we will be working on summer stories.

Important Dates

May 11 – Simply Love Fun Run

May13-High SchoolGraduation

May 17 – Family fun Night

May 20- Awards Assembly 9:00 AM/ Field Day

May 21-Last Day of School (dismiss at 11:20)

Our Weekly  Learning                   Date 4-26-13

News and Information

Our field trip on May 1^st will be to Fantastic Caverns!  If you have not sent in your child’s permission slip and money please do so on Monday!  I will be at a conference next Thursday and Friday, so there will be no Communication Folder next week. Tuesday is the last day for the Box Top Challenge, so get them in!

Reading

In shared reading we read from our science books.  We learned about matter, mass, and temperature.  We explored mass with an experiment using a scale and comparing the mass of different objects.  Ask your child about it.

Math

We are still working on our unit on Geometry. We learned about solid figures this week.  Students should be able to identify a sphere, cone, cylinder, cube, and rectangular prism.  We learned about flat surfaces, vertices, and how to sort solid figures.   

Word Work

We practiced our sight words this week.  Everyone did a great job reading their sight words!!

Writing

We finished our informative plant writing.  Your child should be able to tell you all about the plant parts and their function.

Week of April 15^th

We will have a word work assessment next week. The words are: saw, rain, brother, eat, teacher, feet, meet, beet, sweet, street.  Review words are:  children, sister, little, play, day. Please practice these words with your child.  In math we will finish up our unit on Geometry.  We will learn about pronouns (he, she, it, we, them, they).

Important Dates

May 1- First Grade Field Trip

May 7- Last PTA Meeting of year

May 11 – Simply Love Fun Run

May 17 – Family fun Night

May 21-Last Day of School

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Our Weekly  Learning                   Date 4-19-13

News and Information

The Family Fun Night scheduled for April 19^th has been postponed to May 17^th. Mrs. Wallin will be sending home details in the near future. Spring Program will be next Thursday, April 25. The Box Top Challenge is over at the end of April. Please read, sign, and return the field trip permission slip by Friday, April 26^th. Our field trip on May 1^st will be to Fantastic Caverns!    We will go to the Book Fair during our Library time on Thursday. However, during the Buy One Get One Free Book Fair, Mrs. Carlson does not reorder books. The best selections will sell out early. Your child may go to the Book Fair before school. If you are going to send money with your child, I suggest to send it early in the week and let him/her shop before school.

Reading

In shared reading we used the book Tomatoes in Six Steps. Students enjoyed reading about tomatoes and how to grow them.  We also used this book to review conjunctions. The students observed their plants and recorded any growth that was made on their growth charts. 

Math

We started our unit on Geometry. We learned how to make different objects with shapes, how to make an organized list based on the attributes of shapes, and we learned what plane shapes are. We will continue this unit next week as well.   

Word Work

We practiced our word work words and tested this week. Our words are increasing in difficulty, and many students need the extra practice at home. Please take the time to build these words with your child during the week, so he/she is confident when he/she takes the assessment at the end of the week.

Writing

We finished our informative writing about the function of parts of the plant.

Week of April 15^th

We will not have a word work assessment next week. We will have a sight word test instead. The words are: good, after, how, children, for, here, of, day, sister, have, school, because, look, down, play, animal, little, zoo, very, and people. Please practice these words with your child.  In math we will continue our unit on Geometry.  In science we will learn about matter and mass and do several science activities. 

Important Dates

April22-26-Book Fair

April 25- Spring Program

May 1- First Grade Field Trip

(see permission slip for more information)

May 11 – Simply Love Fun Run

May 17 – Family fun Night

May 21-Last Day of School

Our Weekly  Learning                   Date 4-12-13

News and Information

The Family Fun Night scheduled for April 19^th has been postponed to May 17^th. Mrs. Wallin will be sending home details in the near future. Money for the individual Spring pictures is due by this Monday, April 15^th. If you do not wish to purchase the pictures please return them to school. Class pictures may be purchased for $2.00. Please look for information on Art Night and the Spring Program.

Reading

In shared reading we used our Science books to learn about the parts of plants, how plants grow and what plants need to live. Students enjoyed planting seeds this week and we will monitor the plants’ growth.

Math

We worked on making bar graphs and picture graphs. After reviewing the unit we finished the week by taking the test on using data.  

Word Work

We practiced our word work words and tested this week. Our words are increasing in difficulty, and many students need the extra practice at home. Please take the time to build these words with your child during the week, so he/she is confident when he/she takes the assessment at the end of the week.

Writing

We continued to work on improving our writing skills with informative writing. As we continue to write about different information we need to remember to use the basic writing skills that we have been practicing all year.

Week of April 15^th

We will have a word work assessment; children, sister, little, play, day, frame, same, name, game and blame. REVIEW words are how, down, because, of and people.  Please practice these words with your child.  In math we will begin our unit on Geometry.  In science we will continue learning about plants with the book Grow Tomatoes in Six Steps. 

Important Dates

April 12- ART NIGHT

April 25- Spring Program

May 11-Simply Love Fun Run

May 17 – Family fun Night

Our Weekly  Learning                   Date 3-28-13

News and Information

PTA is holding their last Box Top Challenge of the year. Please send in the box tops, because PTA does some amazing things with the money they receive. A big thank you to all of those that sent in pennies for the Penny Drive. The students had a blast putting pennies in our jar and “bombing” other classes with silver coins and dollar bills! PTA collected the penny jars on Tuesday, so I’m sure we’ll hear the results soon.

Reading

In shared reading we focused on maps. The students made their 3-D maps that contained a compass rose, symbols, and  a map key. They did a great job and had a blast making their cities.

Math

We started our unit on data and graphs. We reviewed how to read picture graphs and bar graphs. We also answered questions about individual graphs.

Word Work

We practiced our word work words and tested this week. Our words are increasing in difficulty, and many students need the extra practice at home. Please take the time to build these words with your child during the week, so he/she is confident when he/she takes the assessment at the end of the week.

Writing

In writing, we worked on writing a narrative story. I am amazed how much each student has grown in his/her writing ability!

Week of April 8^th

We will have a word work assessment; how, down, because, people, of, grow, blow, know, show, snow. REVIEW words are after, animal, have, very, here.  Please practice these words with your child.  In math we will finish our unit over data and graphs. We will construct some graphs from data, review this unit on Thursday, and test on Friday. Using our science books, we will begin our study of plants in shared reading. 

Important Dates

March 29 – NO SCHOOL

April 1-5 – SPRING BREAK

April 8 – Classes Resume

April 12- ART NIGHT

April 19- PTA Family Fun Night

April 25- Spring Program