Chuckles

 

The week of April 26-30.

 Yay for beautiful weather this week!  

We are enjoying our 4 cute chicks!   The kids got to hold them today!  Enjoy the pics below!

The chicks will stay with us until Monday, so we can keep enjoying them this week!  Then, they get to go back to the farm they came from.  It's been a great experience for the kids to learn about the life cycle of a chicken!  I'm so glad it worked out this year for them after missing out last year!

We are really in need of glue sticks if you happen to walk by them at the store!  Thank you in advance.

Spelling and Math tests are coming home today.  Let me know if you have any questions!

New Spelling words--Test May 7th

Sight words:  look, two, more, write, go, see

Pattern words:

ar

star

farm

card

or

corn

fork

sport

ELA/Science

Our new science unit is on Plants!  Today we read a paper book on plants and highlighted nouns, wrote a V above the verbs, and an A above the adjectives.  Have your child read it to you at home.

Last week we planted grass seed in cups that will hopefully grow.  

Science experiments--We have two experiments going.  We put celery in red water and a white carnation flower in blue water to see how the stems change color due to the water traveling through the Xylem tubes in them.  Xylem tubes carry water and minerals from the plants roots to its leaves.  Hopefully tomorrow the carnation will have blue tips and the celery will be a reddish color!

Last week the class learned which vegetables grow above ground and below ground.

Next, we will be learning about the parts of a seed.

The class wrote a chick story explaining the order of chick egg to the chick hatching out!  We used the sequencing words:  first, next, then, after that, last, or finally.  

Math--Last week we had fun with pattern blocks and shapes.  We are going to be learning about Equal Parts, Halves, Quarters and Fourths this week (Fractions).  Our test over 2 D shapes and Fractions will be next Wednesday.  Only one more chapter to go in our book over 3D shapes!

Coming up!

Fri. April 30.      Inservice. (NO School)

Mon. May 3        No School!

Fri. May 14.       Field Day

Fri. May 28.       Last day of first grade!!  It's a half day!

The class named the chicks!  

Meet Chuckles

Here's King Stripes!

Our new friend-Fluffy

Last but not least--Tulip

Not pictured-Will (somehow he got missed :( )

The week of April 19-23

This week will be full of excitement waiting for our baby chicks to begin hatching!  We are hoping for a good hatch out of our 6 eggs.  Updates will be coming!

The fourth quarter is going to fly by so we want to keep working hard on the sight words!  I have sent home a list of any words your child needs to work on.  Leaving first grade knowing all 100 sight words or more is our goal!  Please continue working on those with your child.

If you haven't looked at your child's 3rd quarter grade card on Skyward yet, please do!

The spelling test is this Friday!  Please work hard with your child to make sure he/she knows which r-controlled vowel to use in the words.  It's very confusing!!

Spelling words!  Make sure to have your child read the words while learning to spell them.

Spelling City has this spelling list on it.  Your child can click on it and get to it from the Blog for a fun way to review the spellings!

Sight words:

make, like, him, into, time, has

Pattern words:

girl, first, germ, verb, hurt, burn

Clues to remember which r-controlled vowel to use in each word.

ir--The girl is in first grade.

ur- The burn on my leg hurt me.

er- Germ is not a verb.  Germ is tricky since we read it as a soft g.  Please make sure your child reads it correctly.

Chapter 8 math test will come home this week!  It was pretty tough as they all seem to be.  Continue to review telling time when you have a chance.  It's a difficult concept to learn to tell time on an analog clock.  If you have one in your home, ask your child what time it is if it's on the hour and half hour.  I have only introduced telling by time to the minute.

Chapter 9 is on 2-D shapes using flat shapes and pattern blocks.  We will also have fun with Geoboards this week.  Your child needs to know how many sides and vertices (corners) the square, rectangle, triangle, circle, and trapezoid.  The kids will use the pattern blocks to fill in shapes of animals.

ELA/Social Studies--Plants!  This week we will be learning what plants need to survive, the parts of a plant, and we may even plant something!

Please continue to work on your child learning how to tie shoes.  It's a self-help skill that is so important and your child feels so good when they accomplish it!  If you haven't begun teaching them, please start working on it, as it takes lots of practice to do it well.  Thank you for working on this!

Jackets--Please make sure your child's name is in their jacket in case it gets left outside at recess.

We finished our mapping unit with some fun mapping centers!  It was a lot of fun playing Stack the States on an iPad app, playing Orboot Earth on a special globe, listening to  lots of info. and national anthems on interactive globes, finding all of the states abbreviations and filling them in on a map, and also doing puzzles of the U.S.A!

Enjoy the pics below!

Coming up!

Tues.  April 20.   Chicks may begin hatching!!

Fri. April 23.     Spelling test

Fri. April 30.      Inservice. (NO School)

Fri. May 14.       Field Day

Fri. May 28.       Last day of first grade!!  It's a half day!

The week of April 12-16

 We are on Day 14 on our chicks growing!  Only 7 more days to go!  

This week we are finishing up our mapping unit.  We learned about the seven continents and four oceans last week.  Today we made our own world with them on it!  How many can your child name?

In ELA we are going to be talking about different kinds of Technology now and from the past.  Our story, Using Technology At Work, tells about various occupations that use technology and what kind they use.  We will also learn about how robots can be helpful to humans.

After reading nonfiction books about technology, we will compare and contrast a fiction book on the topic to review the difference between the two.

Math--I am sending home math homework on time to the half hour.  We drew the minute hand on clocks in math today and wrote the digital time.  This will be the same for the homework page to practice before our test on Wednesday.  They seem to be understanding it for the most part.  At times, they may forget that when the minute hand is on the 6 is is not 2:6, but 2:30 or half past two.  You can count by 5's with them to get to the 6 to help them remember it's 30 min. after the hour.

Spelling!  R-controlled vowels.  er/ir/ur (test is April 23)

Sight words:

make, like, him, into, time, has

Pattern words:

girl, first, germ, verb, hurt, burn

Clues to remember which r-controlled vowel to use in each word.

ir--The girl is in first grade.

ur- The burn on my leg hurt me.

er- Germ is not a verb.

Coming up!

Tues.  April 20.   Chicks may begin hatching!!

Fri. April 23.     Spelling test

Fri. April 30.      Inservice. (NO School)

Fri. May 14.       Field Day

Fri. May 28.       Last day of first grade!!  It's a half day!

The week of April 5-9

 What a beautiful Easter weekend!

This week we will continue with our long u spelling words.  The test will be Friday.

Along with spelling the words, make sure to work on your child reading the words.

The kids have done great on making their bedroom maps.  Thank you for helping them with that.  If your child has not done it yet, please make sure to do that this week.  We began sharing the maps today!

This week we will learn more about the map of our country and the world.

Tomorrow we will begin learning about telling time on an analog clock.  If you have analog clocks at home, see if the kids can tell you the parts: the face, the hour hand being the short hand and the minute hand being the long hand.  We've also talked about the second hand, how many minutes in an hour and seconds in a minute.  

We will learn about telling time to the hour and half hour.

Chicks!  We are on day 7 for our chicks in the incubator.  On day 8-10 we will candle the eggs and see if we can see movement!  The kids can't wait for that!

Tying shoes!  Please continue to work on your child tying shoes at home!  It is a life skill that they really should know how to do before 2nd grade.  Thank you for helping with this!

Coming up!

Fri. April 9.      Long u Test

Fri. April 30.    Inservice--No School

Mon. May 3.     NO School