Weekly Update April 8-13

Hello Awesome First Grade Families!
This week in science, guided reading and writing we are learning about the desert and Native American desert folklore. It is also time for the district writing assessment. Students will be writing about their favorite animals. We did a graphic organizer today to help us get our thoughts and facts together. oughout the week and practice writing our own folklore.

In writing, we are working on folk tales, thinking beyond the text and using text to text connections in writing. After we read a desert folk tale each day, the kids will re-write the folk tale to their own specifications. This should be a fun exercise for the kids!

The kids came home with Rainbow Words and they are due tomorrow. This week in making words we are working on using environmental print independently. We will continue to examine the tricky, or silent "r" and we are learning more about contractions.

In reading we are working to understand folklore and legends. We are comparing these types of stories to fiction and non-fiction.

The kids enjoyed the desert centers this week! The centers for the week include:

1. Listening - The kids listened to a neat cd, Sounds of the Desert, and then they completed a desert crossword puzzle.

2. Social Studies - The kids played "Monsoon Mischief," a desert dice game. Each child took a turn rolling the dice with desert pictures. They had to share 3 facts with the group about the picture they rolled.

3. Writing - The kids practiced their folk tale writing by writing a story about how the coyote got its tail. They wrote their story on special coyote paper.

4. Math - The kids practiced their math facts automaticity with addition and subtraction pages.

5. Reading - The kids chose books to read from the bee quiet corner.


We will work this week on shapes and then go into partitioning shapes by next week. The students will be able to understand different types of fractions and partition shapes into three different fractions. We are also working very hard on our facts facts to 10, addition and subtraction.

We have a fun activity planned for computers this week.

Have an A+ week!

Miss Klein