ANNOUNCEMENTS AND SHENANIGANS
Can you believe that this is the last week before Spring Break?! It’s flying by!!!! We have worked very hard this year and after Spring Break we will continue the fun and finish strong! We have some very exciting things coming up in our final semester and we will be looking for volunteers to help us!
Thank you to everyone that shared about your culture this week! We loved learning about foods, clothing, etc. from many cultures! We have been really excited for the multi cultural fair this evening!
Our super star this past week was Natalie S.! We loved learning about her and her family!
As always we love having parent readers on Fridays! Aisha’s dad came and read to us and we really enjoyed our story time!
PAY IT FORWARD
Pay It Forward started March 4 and we need you to help donate to the Rainbow Room Round-Up! The Rainbow Room is a non-profit organization that provides supplies to children in foster care. Girl Scout Troop 2523 is teaming up with the PTA to collect new items like sheets, blankets, toiletries and diapers to pay it Forward to the Rainbow Room and the children in Child Protective Services. Pay It Forward runs until March 15.
CALLAHAN’S GENERAL STORE:
On Monday, April 1st, we will visit Callahan’s General Store. This important learning experience will coincide with our Spring Project Based Learning (PBL) assignment. We look forward to introducing the students to an exciting problem after Spring Break which will require their help. If you have not returned your child’s permission slip and/or money, please do so by March 27th. The transportation fee for each child is $6.00. Just as with the first field trip, please send in exact cash or a check made out to CCE.
We will be able to accept all the parents who want to volunteer for this field trip as long as you are an approved RRISD volunteer. We ask that you provide your own transportation; carpooling with other first grade parents would be great! Please remember, no siblings are allowed to accompany you. If you would like to volunteer for this field trip, please email me and let me know.
PARENT HELP NEEDED:
For this upcoming PBL assignment, we are in need of parent help. Once we launch the project, we will get more specific details out to you, but we need a few parents willing to help cut wood and assemble a piece of equipment for each class. Some of the wood cutting may need to happen before our build day at your house due to heaviness of tools. The building time will take place during school hours on Friday, April 12th. Email me if you are available to help out on this date. Thanks so much!
MONEY SYSTEM
Our students are loving earning money the last few weeks. We continue to defined their roles in the classroom (i.e., listen, complete quality work, help friends, participate, maintain a neat work space, etc.). If they complete their job responsibilities each day, they will receive compensation. In the future, they will have the opportunity to spend their money on a fun classroom experience. The experiences from which they are able to choose will depend on the amount of money they earn during class time. They are highly motivated and our hope is that they will have a better understanding of the choices we all make as consumers. First grade consumers will also have the opportunity to practice saving their money for more “expensive” experiences in the future. It is fun to hear them budget their money!
HERE’S A PEEK INTO OUR WEEK:
READING AND WRITING:
– Discuss common vowel teams with the u sound: /u-e/, /oo/, and /ew/
– Review parts of a sentence: verbs and nouns
– Discuss adverbs
– Review common long vowel teams with a fun bingo game
MATH:
– Continue and wrap up our learning about coin recognition and their values: penny, nickel, dime and quarter
SCIENCE:
– Introduce needs of plants
– Identify parts of a plant
– Discover a plant growing
– Identify what parts of plants we eat and comparing different plants
HOMEWORK FOR THE WEEK
1. Read 10-15 minutes every day. Record in the student planner about the main idea of the story.
SUPER STAR!
Our super star for this week is Vihaan! We are excited to learn more about our special classmate!
IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER:
March 11-15: Education Go Get It Week
March 15: Parent Reader (Raiya’s Family)
March 18-22: Spring Break
March 25: School Resumes
March 27: Field Trip permission slips and transportation fees due for Callahan’s General Store
April 1: First Grade Field Trip to Callahan’s General Store
Have a great week!