Hello First Grade Families!

Spring is in the air! The first graders had a wonderful week. I am pleased to report our Animal Books are off to a great start! Great job boys and girls! Please continue to praise your child @ home for his/her terrific writing and researching skills. This week we chose our animals, worked on graphic organizers, made sloppy copies, and began our final copies....Wow! As many of you know, the book will have 4 main focus pages what the animal looks like? what it eats? where it lives? and what it fears? Your children are very engaged with this project. They are eager to find information. PLease continue to encourage this hands on project @ home. The connections we can make together are endless. Next week we will focus on our final copies, as well as an animal poem,dedication page and our cover page. We will also be making our animal out of model magic, so please keep that in mind when you are at Michaels ,Target or A.C. Moore. A special thank you to all of our parents and family friends for their support and guidance throughout this project. Keep up the great parenting!

In literacy this week we started reading Ways People Live (nonfiction). We brainstormed the different ways people live (climate, clothes, food). We will continue this unit next week. We will review nonfiction books in reading groups and adjectives as a whole class.

The first graders completed the Solid Figures unit. We will be moving on....closed and open figures, as well as positioning words. Please continue to review right and left , beside, and on top of at home with your child. We will be reading It Looked like Spilt Milk and discuss symmetry. I am sure your child will know what a line of symmetry is by the end of the week.

I am also excited to share... we will be taking our passports and off to the cultural festival we go on Thursday, April 15th. We briefly have discussed the different countries we will be visiting (Columbia, Uruguay, Sweden, China) Very exciting! We also talked about where we live and used our map skills to find North America.

Science will be on our minds when we return from vacation. Ladybugs have been ordered and the gardening will begin. We are looking forward to planting at our very own Hoover Garden. Great work and dedication Mrs. Jaggers, Mrs. Wozniak, Mrs. Garnier and friends! Hooray for you!

Have a wonderful vacation!
Jennifer Flynn