Hello First Grade Families!

We had an exciting week in First Grade! As you know, we planted pumpkins, zucchini, squash and marigolds. The children had a great time learning how to plant. Mrs. Forrest explained to the children the importance of having plants such as pumpkins at least 5ft. apart when planting. They all had the opportunity to use gardening gloves and gardening tools to plant their very own plant or flower,exciting ! Now that Science is on our minds....we do have a few pupae in our Ladybug Land,hoping for ladybugs this week. If all goes well,we plan to release our ladybugs in The Hoover Garden. Thanks to all who continue to maintain the garden! A special thanks to Mrs. Fiore, she made our beautiful planting sign. Thanks for all your hard work and creativity!

Academically, we began our unit on Fractions. We learned about 1/2 and 1/4. We also made a few literature connections...we enjoyed reading Fraction Fun and Eating Fractions. We also connected our lessons with the Smartboard. This week we will make a hands on fraction model....a pizza! The childen will also write about his/her pizza.

Last week we brainstormed long o words and read nonfiction stories. We continue to focus on re-telling the stories (comprehension skills). Please continue to review @ home. We will read a Mystery this week and work on consonant c,age dge.

Exciting news....a SmartBoard will be mounted to our wall on Thursday,May 27th...Hooray!
Have a terrific week! Keep up the great parenting!