​First Grade News ​  

Issue 27 March 23, 2018 
Reading  Math 
This week in  This week in math, first 
reading, first  graders wrapped up 
graders worked on  Chapter 6 in ThinkMath! 
making their reading  which focused on data and 
sound great! They  graphing. We began diving 
practiced scooping  into Chapter 7: Working with 
up and reading  Larger Numbers. In this 
longer phrases in their stories. They also worked with  chapter, first graders will 
reading buddies to practice sounding like a  continue to explore place 
storyteller. First graders used dialogue tags as clues  value concepts, work with 
and even changed their voices to sound like the  two-digit numbers to 99, and explore three-digit 
characters in their stories!  numbers. We will use the “Number Line Hotel” (a 
  special type of hundred chart) to explore concepts 

Writer’s Workshop  such as adding and subtracting tens.  

 
This week, first graders 
learned to use a friendly voice  Discovery Museum 
in their writing and added  This week, the Discovery Museum 
comparisons to their reviews  visited the first grade at Mitchell! 
to persuade (i.e. “The frozen  Each class engaged in fun 
yogurt at Orange Leaf ​is better  explorations and experiments about 
than​ ice cream because it is healthier and not as  weather. First graders learned about 
sugary!). First graders had so much fun making their  the water cycle, types of clouds, and 
reviews convincing!  much more. They loved making a 
  “cloud print” with shaving cream! Students brought 

Fundations  home a weather journal, information about getting a 

free ticket to visit the Discovery Museum, and a 
This week, we spent time reviewing trick words. On 
baggie filled with supplies to make weather tools! We 
Friday, first graders completed a trick word test that 
are excited to continue our study of weather in our Air 
assessed their ability to spell the trick words from 
and Weather science unit! 
Units 6-9. We will share the results of this assessment 
 
with you during conferences. Next week, we will 
compete the final week of Unit 10 which focuses on 
two new suffixes: -ed and -ing.  ​Save the Date   
March 29th​: Early Release 
March 30th​: NO SCHOOL (Good Friday) 
April 10th​: Delayed Opening 
April 16th-20th​: April Recess 
April 23rd​: Classes Resume 
May 24th​: Early Release 
  May 28th​: NO SCHOOL (Memorial Day)