First Grade this Week

Poetry

Circle Poems, Acrostic Poems, Alliteration, oh my!  First graders have been reading and writing poetry.  They've explored a variety of types of poetry.  They've even used poetry to work on building their fluency.  Poetry is great for this!

                                               

 Here is a great website for Poetry.  Poetry4Kids

Rock Shop

You have probably heard but plans are underway for our upcoming Rock Shop.

This week's rock shop accomplishments:
                 * Named the Rock Shop
                 * Determined jobs needed
                 * Determined number of workers for each job
                 * Worked on the marketing part of the rock shop



The Simonds' School First Grade Rock Shop for 2014 is called...

Rockin’  Rock  Shop

Math

This week we reviewed double-digit addition and subtraction with regrouping.  We also worked on balancing equations.  For example:     7 + ___ + 4 = 16 -2

Students can practice subtraction with and without regrouping at:   

Fruit Splat

Softschools

Chaperones

We have plenty of volunteers to chaperone our upcoming field trip to Polar Caves on June 9th, but if you haven't contacted one of us and would like to join us it's not too late!  The fee for chaperones is $11.50 to be paid the day of the trip.  Please let us know ASAP if you are able to join us.  Thanks!

Have a great long weekend!  Let's hope we see a lot of that thing that use to be in the sky.  :)