What We're Working on This Week:
First Grade Curriculum:
Language Arts
This week in Language Arts we will be working on our poetry unit!! We are having so much fun illustrating poems and writing some of our own too! We are so excited to show you our poetry folders at the end of our unit! Spelling Lists and Book Bags will come home Monday!! Everyone is doing great, keep it up!
Social Studies
In Social Studies we will continue our unit on Map Skills, Land Formations, and Directions. We will be learning about the topography of our country as well as focusing on why maps are important to us and how to use them! We are also doing some fun Social Studies Stations!
Math
This week we will be learning all about fractions! We will be practice separating wholes into equal parts. We will learn about halves and fourths. We are so excited to build a really strong foundation in fractions that will help us for the rest of our math career!
Science
We are learning all about habitats! We are researching all about different habitats and the animals that live there. We will learn about the arctic, desert, forest, rain forest, wetland, and ocean habitats! We will also learn about how animals adapt and survive in these habitats.
Important Dates:
April 20th - TCE HOEDOWN
May 3rd - Kindergarten Roundup
May 14th, 15th, 16th - STAAR Testing for 3rd, 4th, and 5th
May 3rd - Kindergarten Roundup
May 14th, 15th, 16th - STAAR Testing for 3rd, 4th, and 5th
(please no visitors on these days!)
May 18th - Field Day
Other Important Information
Tonight is our TCE Hoedown! This is such a fun event for our learners. We hope to see you all there!
And you might just see your favorite first grade teachers manning the cotton candy/popcorn stations! :)
And you might just see your favorite first grade teachers manning the cotton candy/popcorn stations! :)
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