Happy President's Day. I hope everyone is finding time to relax and enjoy our blustery weather. Short week this week. Here's what we have happening...
Math: We begin our unit on place value this week. We will be counting be tens, understanding that some tens plus some ones equals a certain amount of ones (ex: 2 tens and 3 ones equals 23 ones), and naming tens and ones (ex:17equals 1 ten and 7 ones). We will also move into bigger concepts such as writing two digit numbers as addition sentences (ex: 18 = 10 + 8), and identifying 10 more and less, and 1 more and less than a given number.
ELA: Our Hartcourt story this week is "Tell Me a Story." During Daily 5 orur CAFE strategies will be "flip the sound" (teaching students to use different vowel sounds) and "blend sounds, stretch and reread."
Science: We started our inquiry process to our class science project last week. Our experiment is "What has more water in it, snow or ice?" We have made our hypothesis, and plan on melting a jar of both snow and ice to discover our results. We will finish our process and our board this week. The only thing we need is a mason jar full of snow. Hmmm..... I do have a plan for snow results if our dry spell continues, no need for concern. Also, we are hoping to have a little time for our motion unit.
Social Studies: More American symbols, perfect for President's Day! Ask your children what they have been learning about with Ms. Reger.
Extra Scoop of Information:
Box Tops due Wednesday February 22nd! This is a easy way to make a small chunk of change that comes directly back to your child's school! If you have been busy collecting now is the time to turn them in. Thank you!
If your child has been doing an individual science fair project it is due on Friday!
Next Wednesday, February, 28th we will be building our robots! This is in correlation with our story, "My Robot." We have very high hopes that this is going to go well. I have had a couple of volunteers so far (YAY! Thank you so much!) but we could definitely use a handful more! If you are available next Wednesday from 1:30-3:00 we would love to have you come in and help us build robots. First grades goal is that every student will have a working robot. We plan on taking these to STEM night at NAU and Flagstaff Festival of Sights and Sounds at the Mall, before they get to take them home.
Mark Your Calendar:
- Wednesday, February 22 - Box Tops Due
- Friday, February 23 - Science Fair Projects Due
- Wednesday, February 28 - Kindergarten Registration
- Wednesday, February 28 - Robot Building Day @ 1:30-3:00
- Wednesday, March 5 - STEM Night @ NAU Dome
- March 14th - 16th - Parent/Teacher Conferences (Information to Come)
- March 19th - 23rd - Spring Break
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