First Grade

This week we will be reading a non fiction story about the life cycle of a butterfly.

Our strategy focus will be learning how to evaluate a non fiction story. We will use this

story to help us learn how to find the topic, main idea and details of a story.

We will use this story to help us review words with the endings s, es, ed and ing.

In math, we will continue working in Chapter 20 learning about money. We will be identifying and

finding the value of pennies, nickels and dimes. We will be skip counting by 5 and 10. Now is

a great time to take out all that change you have been collecting at home and let your child

sort, identify and count them. Skip counting by fives is like counting nickels and skip counting

by tens is like counting dimes.

In science, we will continue our unit on weather so please take time while at home together

to read the weather report in the paper and or listen to the

weather report on the news. We plan to act as meteorologists daily here in the classroom too.

Please remember to send in your child's permission slip to attend our field trip this Friday to the Roller Rink. Please also remember to send in $10 cash that is needed to attend the trip.

This Friday we will performing our reader's theater plays. We hope you all can come and watch. We will start at 8:30 am so be in the classroom by then please and don't forget your video camera!