I hope you enjoyed this chilly winter week. We had a great time here in first grade. Every week I can see the class look more like "almost second graders". Thanks for doing so great with the new reading homework! The month of January Mrs. Fleming's class won the competition for most reading minutes turned in. They had about 6,000 and we had about 4,000. We are going to try to win this month. Remind your children that his/her extra reading at home could help us win. We will have big breakfast the first Friday in March to celebrate if we are successful!
Here are some things we did this week:
Reading-We continued our unit called "Keep Trying" by reading another Frog and Toad story called "The Garden." We applied reading strategies like summarizing, making connections, and drawing conclusions. We have also been reading lots of AR books in class and I can see levels going up. This class loves to read!!!
Writing - We learned about using four different kinds of leads (beginning sentences) for our writing: Question, Setting, Weather, and Sound. It is amazing to see first graders learn new concepts like this and immediately apply the skill in their writing. Our High School Buddies also came over on Wednesday to help with some revising and editing of our Valentine stories.
Science- We continued to observe the seeds we planted last Friday. We have lots of sprout action. We read chapters in our science books about the characteristics of plants and what they need to survive.
A Few Updates and Reminders:
*Our Valentine's Party will be at the end of the day on Monday the 14th. Don't for get your Valentines!
*Our field trip to The Little Theatre will be on Tuesday, February 22. We will leave after lunch.
*Grandparent's day will be Thursday, February 24th. We will have a special time in the gym and then grandparents will have the opportunity to stay for lunch!
*Let me know if you'd like to sit at my table for the Bobby Bowden event on Friday the 25th!
Our Star Student will be Trevor.
Our secret word is "Love".
Have a Wonderful Weekend!
Dawn Newland
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