The Week of May 16, 2022

 

**Please pack a water bottle for your student each day**

Upcoming Events

No School Monday, May 30, 2022- Memorial Day 

Field Trip to Robtoy Farm- Tuesday, May 31, 2022

On May 31 the first and second grade class will be taking a field trip to Robtoy Farm in Jeffersonville, Vermont.  The farm is run by the Sustainable Agriculture Program at the Green Mountain Technical Center.  We will spend the day touring the farm, learning about the different animals (goats, cows, chickens and bunnies) there and how they are cared for. We will also tour the farm gardens and learn about the different harvesting times and techniques that the farmers use.  Recently, a learning pavilion was built at the farm to support Farm to School education. This project was funded by a grant written by our district’s Farm to School committee which consists of educators from across the district.

We will leave school at 8:30 and return at 12:00. Students will eat morning snack and lunch at the farm. Please be sure to send your student to school with a snack, lunch and water bottle.  Ms. Stephanie can pack a bag lunch for students who need it.This field trip will take place rain or shine.  Please make sure students are wearing appropriate outdoor clothing (sneakers or boots, jackets, hats).

Permission slips will be sent home on Monday, May 23 and will need to be returned by Friday, May 27.

Preview Day- June 2, 2022

Students will visit with their upcoming teacher and classmates!

Readers' Workshop

In reading, we wrapped up our last unit of study with an " Expert Reader Audio Book" project. Each first and second grade student selected a "favorite" small group book from our year together. Students practiced reading their books multiple times, and incorporated all of their decoding and fluency strategies. Then we used our Seesaw app to type the title, photograph ourselves with our books, and record our reading.  This was a fun and useful way to wrap up our last unit in Readers' Workshop. 

Great job to all first and second grade readers! 

In the next 2 weeks, I will be conducting end of the year literacy assessments with the 1-2 students. Every single student in our classroom made progress in reading and writing this year despite the crazy year we had! Each student should feel proud of their accomplishments!

We also began a short and fun mini- unit on characters in a fiction book! Students explored books in a series that share common main characters. Students were grouped together based on their interest. We join together throughout the week to talk about our books and keep track of what the characters are doing!  Here are some of the series books we are reading:

Magic Tree House

Digger and Daisy 

Katie Woo

Biscuit

Minnie and Moo

Mercy Watson

Dear Dragon

Writers' Workshop

This week, we finished up editing and revising our favorite opinion pieces, and students worked on typing their pieces. The first and second grade students are learning to navigate the keyboard, use google docs, insert pictures and find fun fonts! 

Spelling/Fundations

We began our last spelling unit last week! We focused on long vowel sounds and learned about the CVCe syllable type. Students practice writing, reading and marking up silent e words along with common vowel teams. 

First Grade Math

In math, we are working on adding and subtracting with double digit numbers. Students are also working with quarters and dollars to help review the  fractions whole, half and fourths. This week, we will review how to identify true and false equations. Students will read and solve a variety of addition and subtraction equations that have the equal sign in various places i.e 10=9+1  T or F  15=10+3+2 T or F.