Mrs. Marcelino's First and Second Grade: The Week of May 1, 2023

After School Plans

First and second grade families, please be sure to inform the school of your students' after school plans with a written note or phone call to the office. The end of the day is very busy and we like to make sure all students know what their plans are for the day. Thank you!

Special thank you to Ms. Nikky for helping with our new classroom bulletin board :)

Upcoming Events

WES Spring Concert - May 9th @ 6:00

Students should arrive by 5:45 and come to the classroom. We will walk down to the gym together.

Early Release Day- May 24th @ 11:30

Readers' Theater Performance - May 24th

Grades 1-3 will perform our readers' theater plays for you! Our last unit of study in Readers' Workshop will focus on reading fluency. We will have time to showcase our amazing reading progress to our WES community.

No School- May 29th

Heads Up 7 Up- New Morning Meeting Game

Heads Up Game Link

This crew is getting ready to tap some thumbs during our game!

Readers' Workshop

This week, we wrapped up our unit of study on fiction stories and characters. In this unit we learned to describe how our characters look and act. We used this information to identify character traits. Students followed their characters through multiple books in a series and noticed common themes. We reviewed a high quality fiction story retell, and created some really cool posters too! The kids had NO FUN AT ALL!!! Just kidding we really enjoyed this project and it shows :)

Spelling/Fundations

Ms. M's Group: This week, we wrapped up our study of open and closed syllable words and played a fun new 4 corners game with our Power Words. Students worked on sentence writing: upper case letters, spacing and punctuation. We learned the rule for using hard and soft c.

Ms Russin's Group: This week, students worked on words with short and long a sounds i.e. chain, train and dare, care + play, day, may etc. Students are reading and writing words with this pattern. Student's read a book called A Rainy Day to Sail. Students also enjoyed playing bingo with their new Power Words.

States of Matter

This week, we learned about the 3 States of Matter. We sorted items into groups of common materials. Students named commonalities and differences. Students explored with making models of molecules and how they fit together in each of the 3 States of Matter. Up next, we will explore how some types of matter can be changed and return to original form, while others cannot.