Week of April 26th

First Grade News and Notes

* We will be taking a field trip to the Minnesota Zoo on Friday, April 30th!  Please return the permission slip by Wednesday. 

*Since we will be gone all day Friday, we will be taking our weekly spelling test on Thursday.

Look What's Happening This Week

Monday: Spanish

Tuesday: Music, Art

Wednesday: Spanish, P.E.

Thursday: P.E., Library Spelling Test 22

Friday: Minnesota Zoo Field Trip  Pack a disposable bag lunch and beverage

Look What We're Learning This Week

Phonics: combination wh, schwa a, digraphs ei & ew, sight words father, through

Math: counting dimes/nickels/pennies, identifying fractional parts of a whole, graphing tags on a bar graph, writing observations about a graph, measuring line segments to the nearest centimeter

English: verbs

Religion: The Church

History: From Colonies to Independence

Spelling List 22 (spelling with the doubling rule)

hop                        fun

hopped                  funny

chip                       skip

chipped                 skipping

run                       *word

running                 *four

The funny bunny hopped.    I was running fast.