Hello and happy Spring! Your child may have mentioned to you that we have had a number of new friends recently join our class. Four in the last month. We are thrilled to have so many diverse new learners that bring new languages to our class and share their cultures with us. I have been so impressed with the empathy I have seen from our students and how helpful they have been in acclimating them to our classroom and school.
Assessment season has begun and my hope is to get through them before the weather becomes sunny. We will all want some more outside time at that point. Until then, each assessment will be given one-on-one due to the assessments we use in first grade, so it will require some patience and take some time with 22 students. We will do BAS for reading, letter name/ID for some, math-2 parts(structuring and place value AVMR).
In reading, students are doing "R controlled vowels" or "Bossy R". Words with ar, or, ir, er, and ur. Students' new memory words are: cold, know, does, laugh, both, again. We are working on paraphrasing and summarizing through our comprehension toolkit work. In writing students continue to learn about poetry. We are starting to write poetry about animals and encourage students to have fun and write in a playful creative way as a poet.
In math we have been working on creating graphs and reading graphs. Students have done a fantastic job! It has been a lot of fun gathering data on things like how many pockets we have, favorite food, ice cream and color. Today we start working on story problems.
Looking ahead, we will be getting the eggs on May 10th to start our embryology unit. This is many students favorite part of first grade. Students learn a lot and are very engaged during the unit and excitement builds as we get closer to the expected date of the chicks hatching.
Wish List: Chlorox wipes for the table, class snack, glue sticks, large white construction paper.
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