Math - The yellow group is working on subtraction stories up to 10.  The green group is continuing their work with comparison bars and comparing story problems.  The red and blue groups finished up chapter 7 with measuring.  Today they started the last chapter in the book!  They are working on two digit addition.  They are learning a few different methods on how to do this. 

Making animals out of pattern blocks

Reading - This week we continued to work on contraction caterpillars, tongue twisters, and fantastic facts.  This week we also finished our final running records of the year!  The students have grown SO MUCH as readers this year!  First grade reading growth is AMAZING!  

A super awesome story written during daily 5 - work on writing

Phonics - This week we finished up our unit on vowel consonant e and vowel consonant e with suffix s.  (We call this v-e)  Our next unit will introduce two syllable words with two closed syllables. 

Writing - In handwriting this week we are reviewing letters.  We have made it through the whole alphabet!  We always work on forming the letters correctly and putting the letters on the correct lines.  In writer's workshop we worked on a super secret project for a super special day coming up on Sunday.  I hope you love it!  <3

Religion - This week's chapter in Religion was about Jesus teaching us to love God.  Friday we will read out of our final Promise Paper of the year!

Social Studies - This kids have loved learning about the states and capitals.  We continue to sing our songs, work on USA puzzles, and read out of some pretty cool USA books.

Science - We observed the bess beetles and put them in our terrariums last Friday.  It was pretty awesome!  We learned that bess beetles are classified as insects because they have three body parts and six legs.  We made a venn diagram comparing and contrasting the pill bugs and the beetles.  Today we observed both our aquariums and our terrariums.  We talked about what changes we see in both since we originally put our organisms in them.  Some things have grown and some things have died.  We are now working on murals of both the aquarium and the terrarium.

Joah's Grandma - Miss Maggie - was with us when we were working with the bess beetles.

She was very brave in holding them.  She was great at helping the kids be brave, too!  :)

Look at how much our grass seed caterpillars have grown!

*Spring Concert - Monday, May 14th - The students are asked to dress up for the concert.  The concert begins at 6:00.  The students will report to their classrooms at 5:30.

*The Building For Kids field trip in on Wednesday, May 16th.  We will leave school around 8:30.  I do not have permission slips yet form Elliot, Guadalupe, or Mia.  The students must bring a cold lunch that day.  Please have everything in their lunch brown bag style - baggies, plastic silverware, etc.  Please no lunch boxes or tupperware.  The students may order a lunch from school if you wish.  Dylan, Brady, Suzi, and Gabriella have already signed up for this.  If you would like your child to have a cold lunch made by our school, please let me know.  

*Field Day - Friday, May 25th