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Ms. Risner's First Grade Class |
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Announcements:
Please read with your child every night for 15-20 minutes and review their sight words with them. Don't forget to log their minutes that they read. If they come home with a book in a bag, please allow them to read it to you and sign the book sheet in the ziploc and return the next day.
Your child NEEDS to be reading everyday!!!
Homework packets are sent home every Monday and are expected to be returned completed on Friday of the same week
If you have any headphones, walkmans or discmen that you are no longer using, please consider donating them to our class.
In Science the kids have been learning about what animals need, how plants and animals need each other and animal habitats. We will be moving into our next unit of study about plants in April. The students will plant seeds, label parts of a plant and learn how plants are good
for our ecosystem.
In Math, the kids will be learning about symmetry, fractions and 3 dimensional shapes.
In Language Arts, the kids have been writing up a storm! They are learning to revise their stories as they move along the writing process to make them better as they learn new skills. Right now we are focusing on writing across pages-stretching out our stories to include a beginning, middle details and an ending. They have been adding dedication pages and author notes for thier readers.
I have asked them to ask themself as an author,
Have I included spacing, capitalization and punctuation? Would this reader want to read another one of my stories?
In Reading the kids are building stamina. Each day the kids have independent reading that we call "Read to Self" time. Building stamina allows children to sustain themselves in an intersting book for a longer period of time. They are continuing to have guided reading time with the teacher and a listening to stories time on CD. All of these components in reading, along with writing (what we call the "Daily Five") are designed to make children stonger in their Language Arts skills. They have enjoyed it all, but find they are tired when they work so hard. It is a joy to see them read books on thier own level and be sustaining rather than seeing them try to read a book, flip thru the pages and grab another one only to do the same. When they sustain their reading and have a
purpose they are learning from the books they read.
Here are some websites you might want to visit.
National Geographic Kids
Kids Click Search Engine
Stories
Please practice reading with your child everyday. The more they practice the better readers and writers they will become.
Spring has sprung!
-Ms. Risner-
