We had fun visiting this website about Matisse. Your children may enjoy exploring it some more at home as well.
As you already heard, we had to cancel our field tirp to the UW botanical gardens due to bus issues. We are working hard at rescheduling this fun field trip. We will let you know as soon as we can set a date.
During MATH we are working on Tens and Ones as well as our Morissey Market. During the market, students earn money throughout the day and then have a chance to work with money and buy things on Fridays.
Since April is National Poetry Month, we will be studying poems on Mondays. Today we read a poem titled Cures for a Boring School Day which we all thought was pretty funny since every day in first grade is fun and fast paced. Then we wrote our own silly class poem. Here it is:
Cures for a Boring School Day
Weigh chickens
Do ART all day
Eat bacon until you're fat
Blow a gumball until you fly away
Make a book without words
Do nothing at recess
Play math games
Do a little bit of everything!
Our class blogger:
Also, from a previous email...
We no longer have a ‘spelling’ grade on our district report cards for first grade. It is an applied spelling grade- which means, the spelling that students use in their daily writing, journals, writing prompts, etc (not tests).
Our 1st grade team feels that it is still important to grade students on the weekly words that they are practicing and being tested on, as they are important 1st grade words to know and the idea is that they will practice and remember these words so that they will use them correctly in their daily writing.
So, the plan is give an ‘applied spelling test’ after every three lists. After lists 1, 2 & 3 and then 4, 5, 6, etc. The ‘applied spelling test’ consists of three sentences that we read to the class. The sentences include words, and spelling rules rules, that have been practiced in their weekly spelling lists. These grades will be entered into the Skyward grading system, under the applied spelling section. The weekly test scores are just for your information, and also to give the kids immediate feedback about how they have done- these weekly grades are NOT entered into Skyward.
The applied spelling test for Lists 1-3 will be coming home tomorrow. =). We will be doing another applied spelling test for Lists 4-6 sometime in the next week or two.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
