Starfish Gazette- March 18, 2013

Starfish Gazette

 

March 18, 2013

 

 

Important Upcoming March Dates:

 

Reminder: Please bring costumes for class musical 3/22 for your child's role.

1. March 26: Starfish and Koala Class Present Friendly Neighborhood Helpers for 1st and 2nd grade at 10:15 in Cafe.

 

2. March 27: School Author Visit

 

3. March 28: Starfish and Koala Class Present Friendly Neighborhood Helpers for Families and Friends at 6:30 in Cafe.

 

4. March 29: Reading Celebration/ book swap and Pajama Day

 

5. April 10 and 17: Parent teacher conferences/ early releases.

 

**I will be sending an email about the upcoming parent teacher conferences.  I will send home a conference questionnaire about your child.  I will send it electronically too.  Please send me hard copy or electronic (Please choose the best for you!)

 

I look forward to meeting with you to discuss your child's growth in first grade!

 

 

 

We are Learning About:

 

• Dental Health
• Addition and Subtraction Fact Families
• Finding strategies to solve addition and subtraction number stories
• Reading about one topic across reading genres
• Animal Habitats- Marshes and swamps
• Public Speaking and learning how to perform in front of an audience.
• vowel teams

 

Here are some activities that we will be working on:

• Learning our songs for the musical, Friendly Neighborhood Helpers.
• Word Study activities with the vowel teams ai and ay.
   
• Watched vowel team videos on YouTube.  (This is a great way to learn a concept in a fun and exciting way!)
• Read I know why I brush my teeth by Kate Rowan
• Make fact family triangles and play card game with our triangles.
• Learning a new math IPAD app called, Tric Trac (an Everyday Math App- I recommend this one!)
• An Egg Science experiment on the effects of sugary drinks on your teeth.
• Make Tooth Fairies and Write about our Tooth Fairies! 
• Read Sweet Tooth
• Decide which foods will make our teeth happy or sad
• Finish writing our all about the author pages to publish our Mo Willems Books!
• Read It's Spring at the Swamp, a Scholastic News Issue
• Review the purpose of glossaries and ordering words in alphabetical order.

 

 

 

 

Congratulations to Manit on being a new big brother!! His baby sister was born on March 15th! What an exciting time for you buddy!! :)