Mrs. VanderVere’s Class’s Topics To Share
*Reading
- Spring Books, Animal Books, Plant Books, Life Cycle Books, Geometry/Shapes Books, Fractions Books, and Poetry
- District Reading Fluency Assessment
- Instructional Level Guided Reading Assessments
*Author Study
- Eric Carle (continued) www.eric-carle.com
*Writing
- 'Words Their Way' Developmental Word Study Assessment
- Reading Response Writing
- Word Sorts Writing and Handwriting Practice
- Daily News Writing
*Math: Geometry and Fractions
- Symmetry, Fractions, Equal Parts of a Whole, Congruent Shapes, Similar Shapes, Problem Solving, and Review
- District Math Computation Fluency Assessments
- Math Fixers: 9,4,13 and 7,5,12 (7,4,11 8,8,16 9,5,14 3,3,6 5,2,7 8,4,12 6,3,9 5,5,10 9,2,11 4,3,7 8,6,14 9,9,18 3,2,5 7,6,13 8,2,10 9,3,12 7,7,14 5,4,9 8,3,11 9,8,17 2,2,4 8,7,15 6,4,10 5,3,8 9,7,16 4,2,6 8,5,13 7,2,9 6,5,11)
*Social Studies/Science
- Life Cycles: Comparing Life Cycles of Plants and Animals
- Plants: The stems of our Cosmos flowers and Basil herbs have grown taller and have more leaves this week. They are leaning toward the sunlight, coming in our windows.
- Portabella Mushrooms: Many white strands are completely covering the top of the soil in our mushroom fungus kit.
- Life Science Lesson About Eggs: Thank you to Mrs. Walter for coming to our classroom on Friday afternoon to teach us about the different, fascinating parts of an egg. We did some cool experiments to test how strong the shells of the eggs were. This lesson helped enhance our life science studies about life cycles.
*Reminders and Upcoming Events
- Scholastic Book Orders: The LAST Scholastic book orders are due by next Wednesday, May 18th.
- Ice Cream Day: Students will have the opportunity to purchase an ice cream/frozen treat next Wednesday, May 18th during lunch for $2.00.
- Library Books: School library books are due by next Friday, May 20th.
- Box-Tops: Please send Box-Tops to school with your child to help our PTO earn additional funds. Each Box-Top is worth ten cents. The current PTO Box-Top classroom collection will end next Friday, May 20th.
- Early Dismissal: Students will be dismissed at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, May 27th.
*Students will still be eating their healthy morning fruit or vegetable snacks and lunches at school.
- No School/Memorial Day: We do not have school on Monday, May 30th in honor of Memorial Day.
- Heller Nature Center Visit: Thanks to our supportive PTO, the first grade classes will be going to Heller Nature Center for a morning lesson to enhance our life science studies about insects on Thursday, June 2nd. We will be staying together as a whole class. Unfortunately chaperones will not be needed, since we are only having one brief guided lesson with a naturalist and teacher, instead of a full field trip day. Thank you for your understanding!
- Step-Up Day: First grade students will be spending some morning time with the second grade team of teachers on Monday, June 6th, to learn information about being second grade students during the next school year.
- Early Dismissal: Students will be dismissed at 1:40 p.m. on Wednesday, June 8th.
*Students will still be eating their healthy morning fruit or vegetable snacks and lunches at school.
- Field Day: We will be participating in some fun outdoor Field Day activities in the morning on Thursday, June 9th. Students will need to wear gym shoes with socks, comfortable clothes, and sunscreen. Please remember to bring a water bottle labeled with full name and 1V.
- Last Day/Early Dismissal: Students will be dismissed early at 1:40 p.m. on Thursday, June 9th, our last day of first grade together.
*Students will still be eating their healthy morning fruit or vegetable snacks and lunches at school.
- Spring Books, Animal Books, Plant Books, Life Cycle Books, Geometry/Shapes Books, Fractions Books, and Poetry
- District Reading Fluency Assessment
- Instructional Level Guided Reading Assessments
*Author Study
- Eric Carle (continued) www.eric-carle.com
*Writing
- 'Words Their Way' Developmental Word Study Assessment
- Reading Response Writing
- Word Sorts Writing and Handwriting Practice
- Daily News Writing
*Math: Geometry and Fractions
- Symmetry, Fractions, Equal Parts of a Whole, Congruent Shapes, Similar Shapes, Problem Solving, and Review
- District Math Computation Fluency Assessments
- Math Fixers: 9,4,13 and 7,5,12 (7,4,11 8,8,16 9,5,14 3,3,6 5,2,7 8,4,12 6,3,9 5,5,10 9,2,11 4,3,7 8,6,14 9,9,18 3,2,5 7,6,13 8,2,10 9,3,12 7,7,14 5,4,9 8,3,11 9,8,17 2,2,4 8,7,15 6,4,10 5,3,8 9,7,16 4,2,6 8,5,13 7,2,9 6,5,11)
*Social Studies/Science
- Life Cycles: Comparing Life Cycles of Plants and Animals
- Plants: The stems of our Cosmos flowers and Basil herbs have grown taller and have more leaves this week. They are leaning toward the sunlight, coming in our windows.
- Portabella Mushrooms: Many white strands are completely covering the top of the soil in our mushroom fungus kit.
- Life Science Lesson About Eggs: Thank you to Mrs. Walter for coming to our classroom on Friday afternoon to teach us about the different, fascinating parts of an egg. We did some cool experiments to test how strong the shells of the eggs were. This lesson helped enhance our life science studies about life cycles.
*Reminders and Upcoming Events
- Scholastic Book Orders: The LAST Scholastic book orders are due by next Wednesday, May 18th.
- Ice Cream Day: Students will have the opportunity to purchase an ice cream/frozen treat next Wednesday, May 18th during lunch for $2.00.
- Library Books: School library books are due by next Friday, May 20th.
- Box-Tops: Please send Box-Tops to school with your child to help our PTO earn additional funds. Each Box-Top is worth ten cents. The current PTO Box-Top classroom collection will end next Friday, May 20th.
- Early Dismissal: Students will be dismissed at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, May 27th.
*Students will still be eating their healthy morning fruit or vegetable snacks and lunches at school.
- No School/Memorial Day: We do not have school on Monday, May 30th in honor of Memorial Day.
- Heller Nature Center Visit: Thanks to our supportive PTO, the first grade classes will be going to Heller Nature Center for a morning lesson to enhance our life science studies about insects on Thursday, June 2nd. We will be staying together as a whole class. Unfortunately chaperones will not be needed, since we are only having one brief guided lesson with a naturalist and teacher, instead of a full field trip day. Thank you for your understanding!
- Step-Up Day: First grade students will be spending some morning time with the second grade team of teachers on Monday, June 6th, to learn information about being second grade students during the next school year.
- Early Dismissal: Students will be dismissed at 1:40 p.m. on Wednesday, June 8th.
*Students will still be eating their healthy morning fruit or vegetable snacks and lunches at school.
- Field Day: We will be participating in some fun outdoor Field Day activities in the morning on Thursday, June 9th. Students will need to wear gym shoes with socks, comfortable clothes, and sunscreen. Please remember to bring a water bottle labeled with full name and 1V.
- Last Day/Early Dismissal: Students will be dismissed early at 1:40 p.m. on Thursday, June 9th, our last day of first grade together.
*Students will still be eating their healthy morning fruit or vegetable snacks and lunches at school.