We've had another great week together. We were happy to have a new student join our class and the Fox Kits have done a nice job helping this new student learn some of our routines. We were sad to find out that two students had moved away. We made some cards to send them since we didn't get to say goodbye. We also made some cards to celebrate Mother's Day!
Our focus in reading and writing this week has been fiction storytelling--identifying the: characters, setting, problem, solution, and ending. We are analyzing the books we read to find these story elements. We are making sure the stories we write have all of these parts. On Tuesday we also had a Flynn Theater teacher, Ms. Joan, come to do a Words Come Alive! workshop. We acted out stories with these same elements to help us visualize the actions involved in our stories and help add more detail to our writing! It was so much fun to create a story together and do some acting!
In math we continue to work on solving story problems. We are also practicing lots of number patterns: counting forwards/backwards, counting by 2s, 5s and 10s, learning about even/odd numbers. We also LOVE to do fact power. Next week we will make a change and have Fact Power as our warm-up each day in math and be quizzed each Friday to see if we pass whichever level the student is working on. Students work at their own pace and practice the addition and subtraction facts at their individual levels.
We had some bike safety learning with Coach B during PE and Officer Jason came to visit our class to talk about bike safety and helmets! This Saturday there is a safety fair at the school and they are giving away free helmets! Please come if you can so your child can receive a free helmet so they can bike or scooter safely around town!
Dates to Remember:
- Wednesday 5/22 - CLiF Family Literacy Night 5-7 pm
- Friday 5/24 - early dismissal at 12:15 pm
- Monday 5/27 - No School - Memorial Day
- Tuesday 6/4 - 1st Grade Big Blue Trunk 9-11 am
- Tuesday 6/18 - All School Celebration
- Wednesday 6/19 - Last Day of School 11:00 dismissal
Happy Mother's Day and have a great weekend!
❤ Mrs. Fox
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