We had such a fun week last week! We finished our Mystery Science Unit about Plants and Animals. We had two Mystery Readers and Friday we were off of school! 

Thank you to Chloe's dad for being a Mystery Reader on Wednesday. The kiddos really enjoyed the story. 

Thank you to Dror's grandma for being a Mystery Reader on Thursday. We enjoyed the book and appreciate you visiting us while you were in town all the way from Israel. 

Mystery Science Unit- Plant & Animal Superpowers

John Paul and Isaiah are in the Student Spotlight this week. We look forward to their show-n -tell and wearing their favorite colors. 

We will be finishing Place Value this week and starting Telling Time. They will learn to tell time to the hour and tell time to the half hour. After telling time, we will start measurement.

We are still charting the weather each day and look forward to creating graphs based on weather patterns. 

Mark your calendar:

( Due to MAP testing for 3rd-5th graders, we will switch block with 4th grade on the dates below)

4/29 Block at 9am

5/1 Block at 9am

5/3 Spring FastBridge Screening

5/6 Block at 9am

5/8 Block at 9am

5/10 Junior Achievement Visit 

5/14 Safe Touch Lesson

5/17 Volunteer Breakfast/ FUN DAY

A special Thank You to Brennan's Mom, Dad and Grandma for coming in on Thursday last week to teach us some cool things about chemistry. The students loved comparing Play-Dough and Oobleck and learning about density. They had a blast!! My favorite quote of the morning was- "it feels like chemistry" said Quinn. So much fun- Thank you!

Daniel was in the Spotlight the before last. We loved his show-n -tell items! Thank you Daniel!

Academic Update:

Writing:
We have finished our fiction writing unit. We will spend time on fun writing activities until the end of April. The students will write about Spring, write friendly letters, write postcards and writing pieces connected to weather. After these activities, they will write some poetry and choice pieces from the different genres taught this year in first grade. During all of these writing activities, they will be prompted to be a responsible writer by using correct handwriting formation, correct capitals, ending marks and spelling snap words correctly. They may be erasing more than usual as they try to become more independent with making these corrections before turning in the assignment.


Word Study:
We are still working on blends and noticing them in the beginning of a word. They are expected to use these skills of counting the sounds in the word and writing the sounds that the hear anytime they are writing a tricky word. I am excited to say that I am starting to see more and more of them doing this during writer's workshop and not just at word study time- yahoo!!! We are focusing on nouns, verbs and adjectives the next week as well. They are starting to notice these words in their guided reading books too.

Math Workshop:
Place Value is still going strong! The class really enjoys learning about place value. Many of them really like drawing the sticks and cubes ( tens and ones). They are understanding how to look at a number and deter,mine which digit is in the ones and tens place. They can represent and number with sticks and cubes, count ten less and ten more. This week they will be working on adding two digit numbers.We plan to wrap place value up early next week.

Science:
We will finish Plants and Animals this week and start our next unit- Weather! ( more pictures of plants and animals coming soon) The students will learn about types of precipitation, track the weather, create graphs and analyze the weather patterns. 

Mark your calendar:
4/19 No School
4/22 Baseball Game- Concord Night
4/29 Block in the morning
5/1, 5/2 Block in the morning
5/6,5/8 Block in the morning
5/10 Junior Achievement Day
5/17 Fun Day
5/23 End of Year Party Day
5/24 Last Day of School ( half day)

Slide Show

Thank you to all of the parents for your help with our field trip to the zoo! We all had a blast!!

We have been working so hard this week. The kiddos decorated their cereal boxes 

for their Box Set Series!! 

We started a New Mystery Science titled: Plant & Animal Superpowers. They loved our first Mystery: Why do birds have beaks? 

They enjoyed experimenting with two different kinds of beaks. 

We had a wonderful school wide assembly on Wednesday for our Ability Awareness Day. The guest speaker was Holly, an 8th grader who is blind and Autistic. She has a wonderful talent of music. She can sing, play many instruments and tap dance. She was an inspiration to all!! After the assembly, the students rotated through 3 stations to understand Down Syndrome and develop empathy towards inclusion.

Due to the rain forecast, our Fun Run is in the gym from 1-2pm tomorrow.