Here it is, the end of Spring Break and now we are heading into the sprint to the end of the year. It is hard to believe that these beautiful children are soon to be second graders! We still have so much to learn and do!
The week we get back from break, we will be finishing a few things that we were working on before break. These include:
-we will be putting our finishing touches on our "All Abouts"....by editing, making covers and fancying up our work. These books will be coming home over the weekend, so please enjoy them but have your child bring them back the following Monday so that we can preserve them with our other published works.
-we will continue our study about volcanoes. We will work in small groups to make the shape of a volcano using different materials that we can find. It might be that your child will be asking to bring some recyclables from home! As a group they will need to figure out how they are going to make a chute and the surrounding area of the volcano. Eventually we will be taking the volcanoes outside and erupting them!
If your child has not completed their "ISLAND GROWS" work (the fold out that reflects the four stages of the volcano) please have them turn that in as soon as possible.
Some new things:
-we will be learning how to regroup double digit addition and subtraction equations by moving ones into a ten if we can. This is an exciting time for 1st graders because they feel so successful in solving more difficult equations!
-we will be going to the zoo in order to see what the ocean animals that we have been studying look like. We will be going to the coral reef, the shark tank, the touch tank, the monk seal tank and the penguins.
-we will start new reading logs with the emphasis on time of day that your child read. We will be teaching basic time telling on the hour and the 1/2 hour using digital symbols. When they record their time on the sheet, please have them either record the exact time or round it up to the closest 1/2 hour or full hour.
It is hard to believe that we are coming so close to the end of the school year! Looking ahead in a couple of weeks we will be skating again so make sure that the skates don't get packed up in the winter items while you are doing spring cleaning!
