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the FIRST GRADE NEWS

MRS. MOHRS CLASS

WELCOME SAMANTHA CHARLES

This week, our wonderful student teacher, Samantha Charles began working in our classroom. She spent the week getting to know the class and my classroom routines. Additionally, she has done multiple read alouds to the kids, and is even working with one of my book groups. She is doing a fantastic job in here, and we are so lucky she will be with us until the end of the year. Next week, she will begin teaching some of our math units and will join me in working with our math groups. She is a wonderful addition to this classroom.

After your child reads with you, ask them about the different parts of the story: characters, setting, events, problem, and solution. This will help them build their comprehension of the story.

Our reading strategy of the month is: Summarizing

April:

Upcoming Dates and Announcements

11 Talent Show (Grades 3-5 performing) 16 Silent Auction Ends 18 No School

21 No School 25 Book Orders Due

3 Silent Auction Begins

Reading Writing

We concluded our lessons on inferring this week, and moved into summarizing. We summarized stories together by lling in a story map about the text (characters, setting, order of events, problem and solution). We will continue to practice summarizing through next week. Please feel free to practice this at home by talking about the stories you read with your child. We began our new writing unit which is on nonction writing. The kids will each be writing their own research book on a topic of their choice. We spent our writing time looking at nonction text features (glossary, index, captions, table of contents, etc.). The kids also picked the topics they are wanting to write about. Next week, we will begin researching on the topic of their choice. This is one of my favorite writing units of the year, and I look forward on seeing the wonderful books they create.

Math

Next week we delve into our 3-D shapes study. Samantha will be teaching three of these lessons, and we will continue to run our math groupings.

Science

We had fun exploring more solid materials. This week we had a chance to investigate with solid materials that were nely ground or small (cornmeal, rice, and a variety of beans). Next week, we hope to conclude our solids and liquids unit. From there, we will move to our last social studies unit on maps and globes.

Book Order

In the BEE books today, you will nd a book order. If you are interested in ordering, please do so by April 25.

Have a wonderful weekend, and GO BUCKY!

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Kaite Mohr at (608) 497-2176 or kaite.mohr@verona.k12.wi.us