Wear a silly hat, or make your hair crazy tomorrow for March is reading month!

Thank you to all the parents that attended our math meeting this morning.  We had fun playing games together!

Dear Parents,

On Thursday  March 12th, we will have our second parent meeting.  The first was to inform you about how we are teaching ELA.  This meeting is about Math.  We need at least 1 parent to come to the meeting as we will be doing Math activities you can do at home with your child.  The kids will be at the meeting to show you how to do games designed to help them with their Math skills.  The meeting will start in the classroom at 9:00 and will be finished by 10:00.  It is important for you to come to this meeting as your child will see how important their education is to you. We look forward to seeing you there.

Mrs. Rydlicki

The 3D shapes that your children are collecting need to be kept at home.  I am sending a project assignment home this week and the boxes/shapes will be used for a homework assignment.

1. where

2. why

3. what

4. when

5. wheat

6. while

7. which

These are the spelling words your child should be practicing at home. The spelling pattern for this week is –wh. Make sure your child is doing the spelling homework in their spelling/poetry notebook on a daily basis. Test will be on Friday.

Reading:  we will be revisiting sentence structure, retelling stories and using details to describe stories.

Writing:  We will be writing narrative stories with a beginning, middle and end.

Math:  we will continue to learn about 2D and 3D shapes.

Science:  we will be exploring magnets

Social studies:  we will be learning about how our environment is modified to help suit the needs of the people that live there.

At 3:00 each day during the month of March, the entire school goes out to read.

We we explored liquids.  We looked at the transparency, viscosity and color.

We used used solid objects to create the best, sturdiest tower.  We had to keep in mind the size of the base we chose, and the rigidness of the materials.  

Social Studies:  please help your child create a map (including a key) of their bedroom.  This is due Wednesday.  If you have a friend or relative in the other first grades, you might notice that our map project is smaller in size.  I am requesting that you do NOT use poster board for this project because I do not have the space near my room to display such large projects.

Spelling

Math:  shapes worksheet

Reading:  please read your books each night and check off/ sign your reading log.