What we've been up to...

News from Mrs. Carli’s 1^st Grade Class

March 3, 2016

Upcoming Events

·      Friday, March 4^th – Dismissal at 11:45

·      Friday, March 11^th – Dismissal at 11:45

·      Friday, March 18^th – Dismissal at 11:45

·      Friday, March 18^th – Scholastic Book Orders due

·      Friday, March 25^th – No School (Good Friday)

Hello Families!

In Writer’s Workshop, we have been studying authors as mentors. We have been listening to stories by Kevin Henkes, looking closely at how he writes and illustrates, discussing the topics he writes about, and practicing using his strategies in our own small moment writing.

In Science, we are continuing our yearlong study of different types of plants and their life cycles. We observed two amaryllis bulbs, planted them in pots in our classroom, and drew predictions of what we think they will look like when they bloom.  One of the plants has started to grow while the other has not.  As scientists, we wonder why is this happening? We are also wondering if our predictions of shape, size, and color of the plant will be correct.

In Phonics, we are practicing how to read and write words with new glued sounds:   -ang, -ing, -ong, –ung, -ank, -ink, -onk, and –unk.  We went on a word hunt in our classroom to find and sort into lists of words with glued sounds and words without glued sounds.

We celebrated the 100^th day of school on Friday, February 12^th by sharing our special 100 piece snack or lunch and by making 100 piece mosaics in Math.

Enjoy the weekend! 

Mrs. Carli