Weekly Newsletter May 22nd - May 26th, 2017

First Grade News - Ms. Costello
 May 22nd - May 26th, 2017

Reminders
School starts every day at 8 AM and ends at 3 PM.
If your child wears glasses, please make sure they come to school with their glasses every day.
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There is a field trip to the Museum of Science and Industry on Friday, May 26th. Please send a bag lunch with your child, as we will be eating at the museum.


Literacy
We will continue literacy stations. I am done with reading testing, and Ms. Ruther still has one student to test. Please be on the lookout for a half sheet of paper with your child’s reading level on it, as well as a full-sized paper with reading strategies/skills you can practice at home with your child.


I will continue to pull guided reading groups and focus on reading skills and strategies.
For our literacy unit, we will read select stories from the book “Days with Frog and Toad”.
We will continue to practice using evidence from the text to answer questions, as well as discuss character traits.

Spelling/Phonics -ck (review) There are 9 words this week.
Please practice the spelling words all week at home. Spelling test will be on Friday.
sick
duck
rack
peck
lock
pick
tuck
back
sock


Sight Words Words 201-205
*Please review sight words every night, especially if your child needs a lot of practice to remember them. *


high
every
near
add
food


Math
enVision Topic 15 (Fractions)
Monday - Lesson 15-1: Make Equal Shares
Tuesday - Lesson 15-2: Make Halves and Fourths of Rectangles and Circles
Wednesday - Lesson 15-3: Understand Halves and Fourths
Thursday - Lesson 15-4: Model with Math
Friday - No Lesson - All Day Field Trip to Museum of Science and Industry

Science - We will monitor our butterfly garden experiment (watching our caterpillars go through the life cycle to turn into butterflies), and journal/discuss the process. We will monitor our ongoing plant experiment.

Social Studies - We will continue our unit on maps.

Writing -  We will continue to work on our writing narratives, and discuss how to come up with titles for our stories. We will continue to talk about making revisions to our writing, using rubrics to assess our writing, and following writing conventions.

Monday - Gym
Tuesday - Dance  
Wednesday - Music
Thursday - Art
Friday - No Specials: Field Trip