This Week in Room 8 (4/9 to 4/13)

Welcome Back!

I hope everyone had a nice, relaxing Spring Break. I was very thankful to spend some time with my family and good friends.

The First Grade Art and Music Show is Wednesday, April 18th at 6 p.m. More information will be coming home to you from Mr. Schwartz and Ms. Foran. 

ELA:
This week we begin our Cinderella unit. We will be reading versions of Cinderella from all over the world. This week we will read versions from France and Ireland. As we read, we will make connections, compare and contrast, and identify key details in the text. We will also make observations from the common key elements in fairy tales.

We will also work on the following skills:

• making connections- understanding the order of events in a story or text
• compound words
• main idea and key details
• distinguishing shades of meaning among verbs (look, peek, glance, stare, scowl) and adjectives of differing intensity (large, gigantic)

We are finished with our first grade Word Wall list. I sent home a list of the words today. We will continue to work on writing these words with accuracy through the end of the school year. 

MATH:

We will continue to work on the following skills at our "just right" levels:

• telling time to the hour, half-hour (quarter-hour, five minutes, and exact time)
• fractions
• composing 3-D shapes
• adding and subtracting within 100 (and beyond)

Science:

This week we begin our new unit on Sky Patterns. We will be answering the following questions:

• What do you see in the sky?
• Where is the sun in the sky?
• How long is the sun in the sky?

LEADER IN ME:

We are working on organizing all of the information in our Leadership Binder. Our class has grown so much since the beginning of the year. We can't wait to show you our growth on Showcase Night on April 26th. More information will be coming home soon about this special event!