April 4-8, 2016

Specials

Monday - 1

Tuesday - 2

Wednesday - 3

Thursday - 4

Friday - 5

Upcoming Events

April 5 - PTA Family Night at Puccini's Boston Road

April 6 - Spring Pictures for all students

April 8 - Snow Makeup Day
April 8 - Report Cards go home

April 11-15 - Book Fair

April 11 - May 13 - FAST Testing Window (This just means we will be taking our final FAST Assessment sometime in this window)

April 13 - All Pro Dad's Breakfast

April 14 - Celebrate the Arts Night

April 15 - Student Recognition awards (10AM in the gym)
May 5 - 1st grade Field Trip to Cincinnati Zoo (Thanks to those who have sponsored so many kiddos!!! If you have not yet returned your permission slip, please do so ASAP!)
May 14 - PTA Spring Carnival 2-7pm
May 16 - 1st Grade Musical (1:00 and 5:30 in the gym)
May 17 - No school (Election Day)

May 26 - Last Day :( 

Kid Friendly Objectives

I can tell whether two parts of a shape are equal or unequal.
I can read, write, and identify fractions of a shape as halves or quarters.
I can read, write, and identify words with ir, er, and ur.
I can correctly use commas in a series.
I can write a fictional narrative.
I can compare and contrast events and characters in a story.

Spelling Lists

A

bird
dirt
shirt
germ
fern
curb
burn
hurt
water
baker

B

first
bird
third
shirt
germ
clerk
nurse
purse
blurt
water

Wish List

Pink Erasers

Week in Review
Ahh...the week before Spring Break. It means we slowed down and relaxed, right? Not so much! We kept it cranking the whole week through. :)

For starters, I let this week's VIPs lead pretty much...everything. They're almost second graders now so they can handle it! One of our VIPs helped us on the first day of contractions by calling on people to predict what two words become when they are smooshed into a shorter way of saying it.

We also did some serious group work to help us perfect our fictional narrative concepts. 

Sometimes we crack ourselves up with our stories! :)

 We use our friends to help us think through our stories, too.

Another way to help us focus our writing is to use other writer's examples. This week, we focused on Cinderella and its many different versions. We became experts at finding the ways these stories were similar and different.

In math, we continued our work with attributes and carried it into composing shapes.

Here are some of the ways we mastered that skill this week!

 We reviewed attributes by sorting "Woozles" and making our own Woozle family! We noticed that all of our families have one thing in common (maybe we all have brown eyes, or black hair, or we share the same last name). We used those similarities to help us think of an attribute our Woozle families could have in common.

Then we used our Woozles to sort them in our Woozle town!

If you can't tell, we LOVE Math in First Grade! :) Have a great week!