News from Mrs. Straw

Events:

-March 9 Daylight Savings Begins

-March 17, 18 Conferences (1 hr. early out)

- March 19-21 No School (Spring Break)

-March 31- April 4 Iowa Assessments

What’s Happening in BUILD:

B (Buddy Games)- Graphing skills

U (Using Manipulatives)- Addition math boxes

I (Indpendently Working)- St. Patrick’s Day math packet (review skills)

L (Learning with Numbers)- Completing unfinished problem solving papers from our math folders

D-(Doing Math)- Scootpad on the computers

Week in Review:

- We learned about long i.  We learned about the silent e at the end to make the I say its name.  We also learned about how sometimes y says /i/.

-We reviewed what we learned from last week about adjectives.  We practiced by describing some snowmen on the smartboard.

-This week we celebrated Dr. Seuss’ Birthday.  We had some guest readers in the room as well as a visit from The Cat In The Hat and Thing 1 and Thing 2.

Notes:

-Our last snow make-up day will be made up April 21^st. 

-Next week will be our performance for the Irish Dignitary.  Please work on reviewing your child’s part at home.  They will be reading it with three other students.

*****In the month of March we will have a special reading challenge: to increase our total minutes by 1,000.  February we read 3, 942 minutes.  If we can reach this challenge we will have a pizza party on the last day of March.

*******Next Thursday will be another special DEAR day.  Our first grade theme will be: WEAR GREEN.