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Week 27 — 3/9

Dear first grade families,

I hope everyone had a great weekend and are adjusting to the time change. I can’t bel

Reminder– 1st graders will be presenting their animal slide shows on Thursday at 1:30 in the lunch room. This is open house style. We hope you will able to make it.

Last week 1st graders –

added a resource page and transitions to their animal slide shows
practiced breaking word into syllables to help decode unknown longer words
found the root word and identified how words change when we add a prefix or suffix to them.
Started writing poetry by making an acrostic poem and a heart map.
Celebrated Dr. Seuss’s birthday and the 100’s day of school.
practiced words in the one family (bone, cone, drone) and our star words **where, **all, and **of

This week we will…

write poetry incluing color poems, I like Poems and ing poems.
practice our slide shows
find root words and identify how prefixes and suffixes change the meaning of root words
determine where commas go when writing words in a series and the date.

Reminders — Spring break is next week. I hope everyone has a fun and restful week off.

Homework — Remember to read for 20 minutes and complete the math fact sheet. —No homework on Thursday, March 12th due to Spring Break.

DATES TO REMEMBER: