First Grade Newsletter #24
Week of: March 6th - March 10th
The Past Week's News
Mr. Timothy McDermott, assistant professor at the College of Food, Agriculture, and Environmental Sciences from The Ohio State University came to speak to our first grade students this week. Mr. McDermott shared tips with the students that would enable them to sustain an indoor garden at Summit. He explained how a hydroponics system works and he gave the students ideas as to which plants grow best indoors and what types of containers are the best to use. He answered questions the students had about planting and gardening. It was a great opportunity for our first graders to engage with an expert in the field of agriculture.
Parent/Teacher Conferences
Conferences are this Thursday, March 9th and next Wednesday, March 15th. If you haven't done so already, please click the link below to sign up for your child's conference for one of these days
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0B4BAAAF2EA6FE3-virtual5
CONFERENCES WILL BE DONE VIRTUALLY ON ZOOM.
Zoom link for the day of the conference: https://zoom.us/my/firstgradesmarties
Important Dates
Next Week's Learning
Language:
- In FUNdations, students are learning about the difference between digraphs and blends. The link shows a lesson explaining the difference between digraphs and blends. https://hub.wilsonacademy.com/sharelink/d36e7f0b-e730-4711-ab41-879acfcf4d83
- Students are also learning about r-controlled vowels. The link gives a lesson explaining r-controlled vowels https://hub.wilsonacademy.com/sharelink/83ef138a-10eb-4d98-9f9c-7c09ff6a8b93
- Students will continue to work on addition word problems and to represent a word problem to show adding two parts to find a result. For example: 9 birds are on the fence. 8 more birds land on the fence. How many birds are on the fence now?
- PBL (Problem-based learning) This project is in connection with the Ohio STEM Learning Network.
- Students will be researching what they want to plant, where their plants would be placed indoors to optimize growth, what possible options they could use to plant their seeds in (the containers they want to use), and the best drainage system for their plants.
- Students will begin to make a list of materials they will need to plant their indoor gardens.
This year’s challenge is:
How can we secure our data, our environment, and our way of life? Identify a focus and develop a plan, product or system that provides or improves security for someone or something.
Summit first graders will focus of the environment piece of the OSLN challenge. Our students will work to try to solve the following problem:
We need plants to maintain a healthy body, but in Ohio we are unable to grow plants outside because of our climate in the winter. How can we develop a system to enable us to grow plants in the winter?