Hello Super First Graders and Stupendous First Grade Families!
Our field trip to The Desert Museum on Thursday was so much fun! The animals were very active and the kids loved seeing them. Kids - be sure to tell your parents about our great trip. Thank you so much to the parent volunteers for the trip!
The Funfest and Silent Auction are on April 29, as we celebrate Harelson's 50th birthday! Our class is creating a Health and Fitness Basket for the silent auction (your child brought a purple flier home about this). If you would like to contribute, please bring your items in by April 20. Today your child brought another purple flier with information about the Funfest. It's going to be a great celebration!
This week in science and guided reading we are learning all about creepy, crawly spiders! Today we learned the characteristics of spiders. The kids made a paper plate spider, complete with 8 googly eyes! Tomorrow the kids will learn how a spider web is made and they will even get to see a short video clip of a spider spinning its web! On Wednesday we will learn about the life cycle of a spider. On Thursday we will read about spiders to learn if they are helpful or harmful. On Friday we will learn about tarantulas and we will even have a visit from Lucas' pet tarantula Bruce!
The kids are doing SO well in writing! I have seen so much progress over the last few weeks and it makes writers' workshop so much fun! The kids are able to accomplish so much and they love sharing at the end of writers' workshop. This week in writers' workshop we are working on fact writing, using a picture to guide writing and story writing. Today the kids wrote 8 spider facts. Tomorrow they will write an acrostic poem about a spider web. On Wednesday they will look at pictures of the stages of a spider's life cycle and describe each stage. On Thursday they will use their thumb prints to make a spider picture and then write about how they would be helpful spiders. On Friday they will make their page to our class book about what they like best about spiders.
The kids came home with Rainbow Words and they are due tomorrow. This week in making words we are working more on writing words with the "are" contraction. Last week we learned "you're" and this week we will focus on "you're" and "we're." Parents - you can look for this in your child's writing and see if your child can point it out in his/her reading.
The kids enjoyed their spider centers today! The centers for the week include:
1. Listening - The kids listened to "I Love Spiders" and they wrote 10 things they love/facts about spiders.
2. Science - The kids read "The Very Busy Spider" and they make their own spider web with glue and glitter on black paper. They colored and cut spiders to go with the web.
3. Writing - The kids read "Spider Names." They received a picture of a spider and they named it and wrote a story about it.
4. Math - The kids put a spider puzzle together and compared and identified spider and ant body parts.
5. Reading - The kids read books from the Bee Quiet Corner played sight word bingo.
The kids did a wonderful job with our measurement chapter last week! This week we are working on days of the week and months of the year. We will also review place value and practice writing 3 and 4 digit numbers.
The kids had fun in computers today. If you'd like to see what they did, please click on the blog posting directly below this one, "Computers, 4/11."
Have an A+ week!
Mrs. Johnston
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