This week is going to be busy, fast and awesome!!!!
We will be starting our week with an awesome field trip to
Chet Ager Nature Center where we will be exploring nature and the changing
seasons! We also get to wear our cool shirts, ride the bus and eat lunch either in our classroom or
outside when we get back to school! I honestly don’t know a better way to start
our week! We will also talking a LOT about Earth Day (which is this Wednesday –
April 22nd) this week. One of my favorite books and movies is the
Lorax written by Dr. Suess – he is such a smart, cool, talented guy and this story has such a
wonderful message. A few years ago when the movie came out I wanted to watch
the movie with my friends but realized it would not be the best use of our time
during the school day so we started to have a movie night with this movie – of
course I am sure you have all seen it – but if you are not busy on Thursday
night you should definitely bring your family to come watch the Lorax with me
in the auditorium at 6:30. We are making some Lorax pots and will be planting a
seed in them this week and as well as making some posters for the movie night!
It will be a great time and I hope you all can come! (Although I must warn you
I know the words to every song so you might hear me and my kids singing along)
We will also be doing a lot of learning and we will have no
time to waste to try and get through an entire week of learning in just a few
short days – I have a feeling we might get a little behind so we might have to
continue of a few of these things next week if needed!
In Literacy we will be starting our final Unit – yep that’s
right Unit 10! My friends will be super pumped to see our last crabby book! We
will be talking about what can happen when we work together! We will also be
reading some great Earth Day stories and from our curriculum be reading “What’s
the Big Idea, Molly?” We will be
sequencing parts of a story and making, confirming and revising our
predictions. Our vocabulary words are decide, marvel, opinion, ragged,
and grateful. We will be focusing on the long u vowel sound and the words good
and who and looking for sentence clues and questioning words. I am hoping to get a good start to literacy this week- but of course will have to see how much time we have!
In Math we will be working on making two groups equal by
either adding or subtracting, telling story problems, and getting ready for our
test we will be taking next week!
In Unit Studies we will be continuing to talk about what
plants need to survive – water, sunlight, and soil – and will be hopefully
finishing up our flower book. If we are lucky we are also going to be having a
little taste test with the different parts of a plant – my friends have been
very intrigued by the different parts of a plant that you can eat! We will be
planting a few seeds this week as well!
In writing we will be working hard on our stories. We are
working hard on adding details to our words and pictures to match our stories
and also using our best handwriting and taking our time. In a few weeks we will
be taking our writing test to show the first grade teachers how awesome of
writers we are!
There is no school on Friday, April 24th so we will have a fun, busy, short week again!
There is no school on Friday, April 24th so we will have a fun, busy, short week again!
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