News from First Grade

Upcoming Events:

* Feb. 12 2 hr. early out

*Feb. 14 Valentine’s Day

*Feb. 17 Snow Day make-up

Notes:

*We are doing a great job with our word journey words.  Please remember to practice these with your child at home each night.

*Our snow day from last Thursday will be made up May 23.

Things to Work on:

*Ask your child if the book that they are reading is fiction or nonfiction and have them tell you why.

What we have been up to:

Reading: This week we worked on the sounds ai and ay.  Our theme was about weather.  We will come back to this theme later in the year in science.  Monday we read a Scholastic magazine called A Home Under the Ground about groundhogs.      

Math: This week we started a new math unit on constructing picture graphs.  We worked on comparing the two items and knowing how many more/ fewer one has than the other.

Science/ Social Studies: This week we worked on finishing our United States symbols unit by making a wheel of symbols.  Students picked one symbol to write a report about.  We also just introduced our new unit on comparing past and present.