Peek at the WEEKS! "March 31- April 4, April 7-11, April 21-25"

Hi families!! I didn't forget about you! I apologize for not updating you in a while. I usually blog on the weekends, but I have been so busy with family visits, helping my sister with her upcoming wedding, and Mr. Hogue getting a new job! I think my life is starting to settle down...for now! Here is a look into our past three weeks!

Writer' Workshop

We began writing our very own nonfiction CHAPTER books!

We started by thinking about a topic we knew very well. Then, we thought of all the different parts we could teach our readers about! We all created a table of contents to help us organize our chapters. 

We will be finishing these up this week!

Reader' Workshop

Before spring break, we learned that readers ask questions about nonfiction topics. Then they read many books on the same topic to find the answers to their questions.

Readers read books and used online read purses to answer their questions!

At the end of the week we published our favorite fact we learned!

Then we moved into digging deeper into nonfiction by researching a topic with a partner.  We worked to read and collect key ideas about our topic. We worked to create posters to share our learning with others. 

Word Work 

We learned about plural nouns! 

We learned that most nouns simply need an -a to make them plural. We found nouns around our classroom and made them plural by adding an -s.

We also spent time learning about nouns that need an -es and -ies. Encourage your fist grader to use these endings at home when writing!

Math Workshop 

We wrapped up unit 6 on comparing data and moved on to unit 7 on measurement, geometry, and equal shares. 

1st graders should be able to tell time to the nearest hour and half hour by the end of the year. This is a great thing to practice at home!

After spending some 'time' on time, we moved on to shapes. We learned about rectangles and squares. We learned that rectangles are shapes with 4 sides and 4 square corners. We learned that squares are special rectangles because they have 4 equal sides and 4 square corners. 

We had fun using shapes to explore and build other shapes. 

Science

Before break we wrapped up our unit on Solids, Liquids, and Gases with a First Grade root beer float party! Rootbeer floats are made up of all three states of matter!

Yummmmm!!

Last week we started our new unit on Soils. We went outside to explore soil. We dig up some soil and recorded what we found!

Important Dates 

 April 30 & May 7 MAP testing

May 10  Cupcake Run

May 16 Spring Concert 10:00 & 2:00

May 23 & 26 No school for students 

May 28- Audubon Field trip 

June 4- Reunification/evacuation drill

June 6- Poetry picnic 10:30-12:00

 *We would like to sincerely apologize for the conflict our picnic shares with the K4 farm field trip. We tried our best to avoid conflicts, but unfortunately the end of the year gets very busy for all grade levels. Please know you don't have to stay for the entire picnic, and can leave at any time to meet your K4 child at the farm.