Mrs. Whitlock's Weekly Updates
November 10-14
Important Dates
November 10-12: Reading/Language Arts Benchmark Assessments
November 17-21: FSA Scholastic Book Fair
Wednesday, November 19: Chapter 4 Science Test
Thursday, November 20 at 6PM: FSAPS Family Thanksgiving Dinner
Friday, November 21: First Grade Friendsgiving
November 24-28: No School - FSA Closed for Thanksgiving Break
Monday, December 1: Science Fair Projects due!
Exciting Explorations in First Grade!
1. Understanding the experiences and hardships encountered by the Pilgrims on their voyage to the New World and in establishing a new settlement.
2. Discovering how two very different groups of people in the New World lived.
3. Exploring the different aspects of Plimoth colony's first harvest feast.
We will be doing lessons in Reading, Language Arts, and Science each day. Students will have the opportunity to take virtual field trips aboard the Mayflower, pack imaginary bags for their trip to America, read/watch interviews with Pilgrims and Wampanoag, and much more! Homework will be aligned to what we are covering in our lessons. Our unit will culminate on Friday, November 21 with our First Grade Friendsgiving.
Also, this week in Social Studies we started working on an in-class map project. Students have been tasked with creating an imaginary place and representing it on a map. They are tasked with including at least 3 landforms and at least 2 bodies of water, all of which are represented on a map key. Students also are tasked with naming their new place and its features as well as including a compass rose. We worked on our rough drafts this past week and will be working on our final drafts in the upcoming week. Students have gotten really excited about naming their places and creating unique landforms, and I'm very excited to see the end result. Please note that this assignment is purely done in class and will not be done at home.
Letter Writing
Art Barn Field Trip!
Chicken Art
Meeting the Animals
Pickles the Pig
Hands-On Learning at the Farm!
If you would like to see more pictures from our Kindergarten-2nd grade field trip, check out our flickr website!
Honeybees
A Peek in the Hive
Roosters and Hens
A Peek at our Week
During a portion on our language arts and reading time, we will be having our Unit 2 Benchmark Assessment. This gives us a good idea where students are with reading comprehension, recognizing high frequency words, phonics, and writing. The data gleaned from these assessments will be very helpful for both you and me in giving your child the best support possible!
This Week's Spelling Words: the, one, do, yellow, look, you, was, are, they, have, two, that, is, to, three