Assessments are upon us. I know with the longer days and beautiful weather, getting our first graders to bed at a reasonable time is tricky. Please try your best for the next few weeks of May. We are starting all of our end of the year assessments. We have writing, reading, and we will start our NWEA assessments in a week. Thank you, thank you for all of your support.

• Monday, May 8 – Pizza Day! $1 per slice
• Wednesday, May 10 – I will be at the Galileo Professional Development session with Mrs. Faraj. I have a teacher, whom I worked with for years, covering my class.
• Friday, May 12 – We have a PTA sponsored program for the students.

ELA

We will start our last 3 week unit is the benchmark series.

Reading – Students will get books at their level to read, but I must start the Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA) for the students. This is a one to one test. To get 20 complete, it takes a long time.

Writing – We finished our Social Studies/Opinion cross curricular writing on Friday. We are required to write a narrative story and compare it with writing at the beginning of the year. This writing will go into their writing folder.

Spelling – This week the words have a silent k, silent w, and silent g at the beginning of words.

• know
• knot
• knife
• write
• wrote
• wreck
• gnat
• gnome
• very
• learn
• carry
• better

Math

We will finish Topic A with 10s and 1s with dimes and pennies. We have a topic quiz on Tuesday. Then we will be comparing numbers. We will read from left to right we will use the symbols >,<, and = when comparing. I just found this resource. I will share the lesson information from now on.

Science

We are getting to light. I meant to start teaching about it last week but we focused on social studies.

Social Studies

We will finish up our timelines this week.

Thank you for your support. Have a great week.

Mrs. Korte