**Please help your student pack a water bottle and snack for school each day**
Upcoming Events
Readers' Theater Performance / Early Release Day/Teacher In-Service
May 24th, 2023
Please join us from 9:30-10:30 in our gym for a amazing performance by the 1-3 students!
End of Year K-3 Field Trip to Mill River Park- June 8th
K-3 students are excited for a day of hiking, games and creemees! Students will leave WES around 9:30. Students will need to bring a lunch from home, or sign up for a bagged lunch from the cafeteria. Please complete the google form linked below. Let me know if you are having any trouble viewing the google form and I will send home a paper copy!
Mill River End of Year Field Trip Google Form
End of Year Benchmark Assessments
This week, I was busy working on the many end of year assessments with your students. I really enjoy this time of year, where I get to check in with each child and notice the incredible growth they have achieved since the beginning of the school year. Please reach out if you have any questions.
Science Unit: Properties of Matter
Students were busy making predictions, observing and recording their findings this week. As a class we learned that some types of matter can be changed by temperature and can return to their original form, while others cannot! Together we froze cucumbers, bread, soda, mustard,bananas, and maple syrup. We made observations, and then, left all of them out at room temperature for the night. It was pretty cool to see what was matter was reversible and what was not!
Readers' Workshop
This week, Ms. Marie practiced with each readers' theater group in preparation for our upcoming performance! Students are learning to:
Change their voice to match the punctuation in the text.
Read with phrasing ( scoop words together).
Add expression and feeling.
Read at an appropriate rate ( not too fast, not too slow).
First Grade Math
This week in math, the first graders continued to work in Unit 7. In this unit, students will work to add and subtract double digit numbers with various models and review counting by 2s 5s and 10s. Check out the links below for more info and to check out some of the cool games we played together.
Games:
3D Shape Hunt
On Thursday and Friday, the first graders had fun hunting around the classroom for 3D shapes. We created some fun "watchful eyes" headbands to help us find and name some cool shapes. We found spheres, rectangular prisms, cylinders, cubes and cones!
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