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What's Been Happening In Class?
- Thank you: A BIG thank you to Manasvi's parents, Sudeep's parents, Ethan H.'s parents, Ethan M's parents, Connor's parents and Sophia's parents for donating supplies to our classroom!!! We greatly appreciate it.
- Field Trip Forms: Two green field trip forms came home yesterday in Thursday folders. Please, take a moment to fill them out and return by March 11th.
- Economics Fair Information: Only 2 more weeks until the Economics Fair! Students are required to make 35 - 40 product items, so please have your child start making their products. Please, refer to the "yellow" sheet for requirements and expectations. Products are due and need to come to school on March 12th.
- February Scholastic Book Orders - The February Scholastic Book Orders are due Thursday, February 28th Place your orders online - Your Class Activation Code NP79X. The link to order is HERE. Thank you to Jose's mom and Ethan H's mom for ordering books last month!
- Libraries of Love: All of first grade is excited to be a part of a service learning opportunity called Libraries of Love. Important information about the project was sent home today with your child! First grade is collecting money to help create libraries in Uganda. They will also be hosting a Walk-a-thon on March 14th. Students can walk with a new, hardcover book and read it with their buddy before donating it to a good cause! Record Sheet was in Thursday folders yesterday. It's due back on March 13th.
- Home Access Center: Check your child's academic progress every week. Link to Home Access Center. If you still have trouble logging in please contact our school's front office.
- STAAR Assessments May 13 and May 14: They are just around the corner. Want to help prepare your child at home? Suggestions for math: khan academy (students have a login already or set one up for FREE) and my "Math Links" tab are excellent online resources your child has access to. You can also create your own subscription to ixl.com and create an account for your child. It's a great math resource! Suggestions for reading: reading comprehension passages with questions and other reading comprehension skills. Check out the "Reading Links" tab for tons of great online resources.
Upcoming Events:.
- February 25 and 26 - STAAR Practice Test Days
- March 1 - Math DCA Unit 5 & 6 (Geometry - 2D shapes, 3D shapes, Quadrilaterals, Area...Plus Multiplication and Division).
- March 1 - Picture Day for Mrs. Lilleboe's class (bring picture money if you are purchasing pictures)
- March 11 - Field Trip forms (both green forms) must be returned.
- March 12 - Economics Fair Day! - All items must be present for the fair for selling - major grade!
- March 16 - 24 SPRING BREAK
- March 25 - Ocean Adventure School Assembly at 7:45am
- March 25 - Mrs. Lilleboe's Class Field Trip to Westcave Preserve at 9:00am
What's Been Happening In Class?
- Writing: This week our focus was on writing back our Pen Pals in Britain (we got letters back from them!).
- Reading: We started our next unit - Informational/Nonfiction Reading. We will use a number of PBL resources for this unit. Materials may be articles from magazines, books, online sources, and videos.
- Math: We used multiplication and division in more word or story type problems to ensure that our kids are understanding how to solve the problem. We primarily used our 6's and 9's facts this week in our math word problems. We'll continue next week in reviewing Geometry (quadrilaterals and area) and multiplication/division as we prepare for the DCA test on March 1st.
- Science: We wrapped up our Weather Unit with a DCA test yesterday. We will start our next unit on Monday... Space!!
- Social Studies: We learned about goods, services, supply, and demand.
- Eslot: Enrichment groups (cooking, Lego Robotics, arts/crafts, STEAM, Coding, Nintendo Labo)
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