Friday, April 5, 2019

Week of April 8th

Mark Your Calendars
April 13th Archway Lincoln Family Picnic
April 22nd Spring Holiday NO School

In Curriculum This Week
Spalding
mind, shall, alone, order third, push, point, within, body, field
belongs, cheese, earn, edge, feather, fence, funny, going, honey letters
oranges, pocket, shoes, shoe, stairs, stream, talks, tiny, words, trust

Literature
Poem My Shadow 
Brer Fox and Brer Rabbit stories: we will discuss write story elements

Math

  • Counting to 120
  • Estimating
  • Ordering Numbers 
  • Counting on or back by 1 or 10
  • Test on Thursday
Science
Will continue to study the planets in our solar system this week. Students will learn that the Earth orbits the sun and that our solar systems includes the sun and the planets that orbit around it. We will learn that Pluto is classified as a dwarf planet and that there are eight planets in our solar system.

History
This week scholars will describe the early years of Sacagawea and explain how she helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition. We will review and test on our Exploring the West unit. We begin reading Lewis and Clark and Me a book from the perspective of Meriwether Lewis's dog.

Thank you to everyone for sacrificing your time and energy to make our Spring Concert a success. It is always such a joy to see your children on stage after working so hard. 

In Partnership,
The First Grade Team