Hello Parents!
I hope everyone enjoyed a beautiful Mother's Day. The children worked very hard on their sweet poems for you! Also, thank you for all the wonderful treats and notes during Teacher Appreciation Week! You are so kind.
It's hard to believe our year is already winding down. Soon reading assessments will begin for all our first grade students. We have been working hard to ensure every opportunity for the children to meet grade level expectations in reading comprehension for both fiction and informational text. This is an important standard this last quarter. Besides unit math assessments, a midterm math formal assessment will be administrated later in the month.
We finished our unit on measurement and now we are working on partitioning equal parts, fractions. Students need to understand halves, fourths or quarters, and the whole part. It is very important that we offer ample opportunity for the children to see equal shares in models; dividing pizza slices or cookies equally into halves or fourths.
During the 4th quarter we will focus on informational text across subject areas. Our habitat study is the Ocean. We have learned many facts about the four major oceans of the world and labeled our own maps. Now the children will choose their own animal to research and write their own All About. Once we become experts on the ocean, we will rotate to other classes to learn more about other world habitats.
Our science unit on Organisms will wrap up this week. If you would like your child to take home a snail or guppy, please send a note to school.
In social studies we are still working hard on helping our Earth stay clean. Take a walk down our hallway to see the awesome display from the children.
Thank you to all my volunteers who come in every week to help students with their reading. You are the best!!!
Have a great week!
Shar
Sincerely,
Sharon Mogilski
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