Hello families,
Wow, we really hit the ground running this week! The Fox Kits are really remembering how we work hard and show HEART throughout the day--even after a week of spring break!
In reading we began a fiction reading unit, "We're off on Reading Adventures." This week we focused on taking a sneak peek to help us think about the setting, where and when the story takes place. We focused on getting to know our characters and thinking about all the details in the story to help us understand and get to know the characters. We also made predictions, using what we know about the beginning of a story to think about what might happen next. We started reading Henry and Mudge: The First Book to learn about these two great friends. We will be reading a lot of Henry and Mudge adventures during this unit--connected to our reading and writing work!
We also began a fiction writing unit! This was a big hit and an exciting unit for our class. First we brainstormed some things we like to play pretend. This helped us get ideas for characters and settings we wanted to write about. Then we planned the beginning, middle (with a problem), and end (with a solution) to our stories. After that we were off, writing up a storm! It has been so fun to read our stories and share our imaginative narrative writing with each other.
In math we continue to work on story problems--identifying if the story is asking us to add, subtract, or find multiple combinations. Sometimes we have to do add and subtract in 2 step story problems! We also started to learn about fact families using dominoes as examples to help us learn how the three numbers are connected in a family of equations (addition and subtraction).
Next week in P.E. students will have the opportunity to practice and learn about bike safety with Coach B (Kyle Blindow)! He received a grant to lend us a BikeSmart trailer with 20 bikes of various sizes and shapes so they can learn about this skill in their physical education class. How fun! If you have any questions feel free to ask Coach B.
Dates to Remember:
- Tuesday 5/7 -Capital Project Bond Vote (voting open early now!)
- Tuesday 5/7 - Words Come Alive! - Flynn Workshop in our Classroom 9:45-10:45 am
- Wednesday 5/8 - early dismissal with activities at 12:15 pm
- 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
Have a great weekend!
❤ Mrs. Fox
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