Highlights of the Week

Hello families,

This week the Fox Kits have earned a ton of hearts! One thing we're focusing on is being timely when transitioning and lining up to go places. This means when getting to line being ready to go (facing the front, not touching or talking to others). This helps us have timely transitions, be able to spend more time on our learning, and get to places on time! We filled our heart jar again on Thursday so on Friday we had a long celebration -- games and art projects!

This week we read a few books to go along with our Opinion writing genre. We read Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type, Everybody Needs a Rock, and Duck Rabbit. We also read I Want My Hat Back just for fun! On Thursday we also had a guest reader, an athlete from St. Mike's come to read Wacky Wednesday to us. That is a wacky, fun book!

This week we added on to our opinion writing skills. Now when we are writing about our opinions we make sure to: tell our opinion, give at least 2 reasons why, back up a reason with an example, make our writing stronger by saying what other people might think, adding sparkly words to make it more interesting, and wrap it up at the end by restating our opinion. It's amazing to see how quickly these first grade writers are developing these writing skills!

We wrapped up our Place Value and Time unit this week. Mathematicians have been working hard on developing their understanding of place value and using it to represent, add, and compare numbers to 100. They can also tell time to whole and half hours!

We have continued working in word study on spelling words with word chunks (or welded sounds) am, an, all. Spelling this type of word is becoming easy for most students! We are also practicing writing trick words--and this is so tricky! Most trick words don't follow conventional spelling rules so you just have to remember them! We are currently still working on: you, your, they, was, one, said, her, when, where, which, that, then, them, this, with, why.

Dates to Remember:
Thursday April 12 -- Early Dismissal 11:00 for Family Conferences
Friday April 13 -- Early Dismissal 11:00 for Family Conferences
Mon-Fri April 23 - 27 -- Spring Break
Wednesday May 9 - Early Dismissal 12:15 - Teacher Inservice
Friday May 25 - Early Dismissal 12:15 - Senior Expo
Monday May 28 - NO SCHOOL - Memorial Day

Have a great weekend!
❤ Mrs. Fox