April 15-19
First Grade News
I Don't Want to Be a Frog by Dev Petty
Skills for the week: This week our focus is on Author's Purpose. We will discover the differences between books that are written to persuade, inform, an entertain readers. The Non Fiction readers is called Fascinating Frogs and our grammar skill for the week will be making contractions. Our spelling words will end in the letter y. " Tricky Y"
wise
gobble
fierce
glum
garbage
Spelling list: Students will work on words with tricky y spelling.
cry
shy
sky
spy
bunny
happy
penny
puppy
Tricky words
oil
sit
now
Extended words
garbage
gobble
Math Skills for the week:
Vocabulary words: mathematical model, composite, surface, face, edge, vertex, sphere, rectangular prism, cube, pyramid, cylinder and cone.
2 D Shapes
3 D Shapes
Composite shapes
Author Visit -Michael Hall
10 AM
Grandparents' Day Program
Thank you.
Life Cycle of Frog project
Dates to Remember
April
26: Grandparent's Day
29: Michael Hall -Author Visit
May
3: Service Learning Day and 4th Quarter Midterm
10: Pancakes with Pals- Elementary Student Council Event
13: Primary Activity Day
17: First Grade Field trip to Mystery Cave and Historic Forestville.