April Fools!

Hi everyone! Crazy to think we have entered April and there are only 2 months of the school year left. I will be sending home a field trip permission slip this upcoming Monday in the kids’ daily folders. Please have it returned by Friday.  This will be our last field trip of the year. First grade is so lucky we get to go on so many field trips throughout the year.

If you would like to purchase the official first T-shirt for the Vietnamese Dual Language Program, here it what it looks like! It is $10. Your child can wear their Summitt shirt or this shirt every Friday.

For the rest of the year, we will be studying different units over animals. This week, we specifically studied animals and their body coverings.

 We did our monthly Vietnamese writing to add to our end of the year first grade books that Mrs. Skalaban and I have been working on with the kids all year long. When the students receive the books at the end of the year, you will see the tremendous progress of the kids’ writing from August to May. Look at how cute my girls’ drawings are!

“My rabbit’s/bunny’s name is __________. It likes to eat _________. It likes to ___________.”

In math, we finished up our unit of measurement. We will move on to time this week. We worked on capacity, weight, and measuring with rulers/paper clips/snapcubes all within the last three weeks. This past week, we worked on word problems comparing the weight of the students in class and finding the difference. I brought in a scale so we worked with the actual weight of the students. Since the scale I brought in from home determines the weight of a person to the decimal, I taught the kids how to determine and round the number to the whole number. For example, if someone weighed 55.8, we would round the number to 56 pounds. I think they’re ready for the STAAR test now. Wink wink. That is definitely not a first grade expectation. The kids really caught on fast.

Our new sight words this week is a little harder. Instead of working on consonant blends in the beginning of the word, we worked on vowel-consonant blends at the end of the word. We will take our sound check this upcoming Friday. We usually practice the words for 2 weeks before I give them the sound check.