Miss Dudgeon's First Grade

Hello Everyone!!   Wow, the school year is going by quickly, only 3 and 1/2 weeks left.  I am enjoying every second of it and I am sad to see my short time with all of you go so quickly!!

Here is what we have going on this week:

Reading:  We are continuing to learn about the different parts of a non-fiction book and we will be finishing up our own non-fiction books this week.  We will begin a wonderful new section of authors and mentors focusing on Mem Fox next week!

Word Wall Words: Today in class we reviewed the words: after,children, can’t, down, talk.   In the homework sent home today we are also reviewing: children, like, have, friend, and because                      You may practice all words this week with your child.

Writing:  Our How-To books are coming along quite nicely.  We are learning the difference between teaching someone how to do something and telling a story about when you did that same thing.  This week we are revising and editing and will make our final drafts.

Math:  We are finishing up unit nine in our math expressions curriculum.   This may be challenging for some of the students, but it is just an introduction and they will touch more upon story problems and adding multiple numbers in 2nd grade, so no worries!!!  They are all doing great!

Social Studies:   We are still learning as much as we can about the wonderful continent of Australia.  Ask your student to tell you about all of the cool facts we have learned about the land down under!

Reminders:  The students will be participating in the jump-a-thon Tuesday in their P.E.  class.  Make sure to get your sponsorship forms in!

Our class musical is Wednesday.  Keep practicing at home!!

We have the Gold Medal assembly on Friday from 2:30 to 3!

Have a splederiffic week!!!

Miss Haeck

Hello All!!  I finally figured out how to update Miss Dudgeon’s blog, so here is what has been going on these past couple of weeks!

Miss Dudgeon had her beautiful, baby girl, Averie Amelia!!  We are all so excited for her!!

Reading: We started our new read- aloud book Pippi Longstocking.    We are having so much fun hearing about all of Pippi’s silly adventures!!   

We also started learning about how to read non- fiction books and we are working on making our own non-fiction book!

Word Wall Words: Last week was our last week of word wall words:         girl, boy, can’t, won’t, after.   From now on we will be reviewing all of our word wall words we have learned throughout the year!

Writing: Last week we finished our poetry books and took them home!  This week and next week we will be learning how to be teachers!  We are writing our own How-To books.  This week we wrote our rough drafts.  Next week we will be revising and editing, getting ready to write and publish the final draft of our own How- T0  book!

Math:  As most of you may know from the letter sent home with homework, we have started a new math curriculum for the last month of school called Math Expressions.  We are learning about story problems and adding two digit numbers.

Social Studies: We are continuing to learn about Australia!  Australia is such a cool country/continent.  In fact it is the only continent in the world that is also an island and a country!  In computer lab we are using drawing for kids to draw our own Australian animal. 

Science: Last friday was our field trip to the Pacific Science Center.  We had a blast looking at all the different science exhibits and watching the 3-D  IMAX  Hubble 3-D.  Thank you to all of the parents who came along with us, the field trip was a great success!!

Reminders: Friday, May 21st, is an early release at 12:30.   

Wednesday, May 26th, is our class musical performance with Mrs. Farley called, “Animals, Animals”.  Students should arrive at 6:40 P.M. and the show will start at 7:00.  Letters were sent home with your child and it is a great idea to practice at home!!  See you all there!

Have a great week!!

Miss Haeck

Happy May!  I can’t believe it is the month of May!  Let’s hope for some beautiful May flowers!

Reading: This week we read Super Duck and made mental images!

Word Wall Words: because, children , house, school, teacher

Math: We have been playing a came called Roll Tens!  It is helping us count on, add two single digit numbers and make piles of 10′s!

Writing: We have learned about two poems: Acrostic and Concrete.  This week we introduced Free Verse Poems!

Social Studies: This week starts our mini- self investigation of Australia!  We will dive into the land down under this month!

Friday is a Early Release at 12:30!

Have a wonferful week everyone!

Miss Dudgeon

Reading: We are continuing Mental Images.  We are reading “Always in Trouble” and drawing and sharing our mental images.

Writing: We have been working on acrostic poems and will begin working on Concrete poems!  We have started our expert Poem Form booklet!

Math: We have been exchanging money for the store and we have been solving problems using multiple ways (pictures, words, counting, etc.)  We are also working on our number scrolls, trying to write to 1000!

Science: This week we made a Venn diagram to compare and contrast  what plants and animals need.  We also compared the different ways our classroom organisms move around to some other Organisms outside our class!

Phonics: Word Wall Review.  We had a word wall assessement that will come home Friday!

Computer Lab: We will work on writing an acrostic poem and writing a concrete poem online!  Tutpup.com will also be practiced!

Friday: The reptile man will be here on Friday.  We will see a few of his friends in the afternoon, but he will be at school in the evening!

Field trip information to the Pacific Science Center came home on Monday!  Please read all information letters and return to school by Monday, May 3rd! Thank you!

Have a great end of April!

Miss Dudgeon

Reading:  We are continuing to work on our Mental Images.  We are listening to a story and drawing pictures for various illustrations. 

Word Wall Words: down, good, little, make, over, pretty, ride, there, want, will

Writing: Last week’s mental images involved some poems.  We will start our Little Book of Poems.  We are also working on revision in writing, adding carrots to add more detail, changing mis-spellings and adding correct conventions.

Math: We are working on creating different problems to 10 and above!  Some have more than one number (a+b+c+d) and some can be subtraction.  We are working on story problems as well!

Science: We learned about the animals in our terrariums and aquariums.  We learned about vertabrates and invertabrates, as well as exoskeletons on our pill bugs.  Some animals breathe through gills too, we know which ones!

Character Counts: We have a character counts lesson with Mrs. Becker this Friday!

PE Assembly: Our PE assembly is going to be Friday, April 23rd at 1:00-1:30!

Have a wonderful rest of the week!

Miss Dudgeon