First Grade: Feb.20-24

Dr. Seuss's birthday is coming up soon! if your child would like to share any of their favorite books, please have your child bring them in.

Reminder: This Friday is a half day for the students. They will be dismissed at 11:45 a.m.}

If you happen to have any small toys that are in good conditions that we can add them to our Prize Box it would be greatly appreciated if you donate them to our class. We are running out of them and the students are very excited to win some prizes for doing outstanding work at school.

This week your child will be inquiring into the following:

This week your child will be reviewing all the Word Walls with various chants and activities. The spelling challenge will be on Friday, February 24th. The six new words that we will be introducing this week are:

much

before

line

right

too

zoo

For this week, we will continue reading stories from Owl at Home by Arnold Lobel.

We will begin our explanatory writing unit (How To). For this unit, we will be doing various activities here in class and at home. The students will be writing a "How To" piece, explaining the steps in great details. We will start with how to blow bubbles.

We will be starting a new unit in Maps, Legends and Fairy tales. We will be learning and drawing pictorial maps. If you have any maps, globe, compasses, legends, or fairy tales you would like to share, please bring them in and have your child's name on them.