📣 ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Students need to bring a water bottle with name on a daily basis for proper hydration!
- Please make sure students have utensils in their lunchboxes.
- Reminder about lunch drinks - please no glass bottles, soda cans, Kool-Aid, or fountain drinks. Thank you.
💡WHAT WE ARE LEARNING THIS WEEK
Reading / Literature: We read a story of "The Rainbow Fish", learned about friendship, and made a fun paper plate fish craft. We also finished the Beatrix Potter tales with "The Tale of the Two Bad Mice", who learned from their mistake of handling their anger. We will start on the first chapter of "My Father's Dragon" on Tuesday, February 20th. Please send a copy of this book if you haven't done so.
Thank you to our parent reading volunteers! We still have slots for the month. We need volunteers every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from 11:10-11:45. Check your teacher's page below for the reading volunteer signup.
Mrs. Aguayo
Mrs. Santiago
Ms. Baines
Math: This week, we learned different ways to add two-digit numbers: a) counting on; b) getting a ten; and c) adding them vertically with renaming and without renaming. We will have a check up test on addition next Friday.
Poetry:
Washington by Nancy Byrd Turner
He played by the river when he was young.
He raced with rabbits along the hills,
He fished for minnows, and climbed and swung,
And hooted back at the whippoorwills.
Strong and slender and tall he grew -
And then, one morning, the bugles blew.
Over the hills the summons came,
Over the river's shining rim.
He said that the bugles called his name,
He knew that his country needed him,
And he answered, "Coming!" and marched away
For many a night and many a day.
Perhaps when the marches were hot and long
He'd think of the river flowing by
Or, camping under the winter sky,
Would hear the whippoorwill's far-off song.
Boy or soldier, in peace or strife,
He loved America all his life!
History: For this week, we continued to study about how the colonies united and made a letter to King George III. We pretended to make our own letter too in class and signed our names on it. We also learned about how the patriots came together in the Battle of Lexington and Concord, and how the American Revolution began with "the shot around the world". We learned a song about the revolution, and pretended we were the patriots then.
Science: This week for our Ocean unit, students learned about the jellyfish, seahorse, and starfish. They learned the jelly fish is an invertebrate creature, and that seahorse is considered a fish.
Have a great week!
1st Grade Teachers