Final Celebration

Our end of the year celebration will be on Thursday, June 4th at 10a.m. Treats to be shared are welcomed. Set-up will begin promptly at 9:30 a.m.

District policy states that all treats shared in the classroom be store purchased.

Math Topic Quizzes

The following chart shows scoring statistics for the last 3 topic quizzes which are to be returned tomorrow.

	Topic 14	Topic 15	Topic 16
Passing Score	8	9	8
Number Passing	13	19	17
Students scoring 100%	4	1	2

Spring Dance

The first grade team has decided that all first graders should wear a brightly colored solid T-shirt with blue jeans for the Spring Dance.

Enjoy your Memorial Day holiday.

One Hundred Sixty-First Day of School

This week we will begin final assessments in reading. Writing and all other subjects will come up shortly. Please make sure that if your child wears glasses, they take them to school everyday.

One Hundred Thirty-Fifth Day of School

Math quiz tomorrow.

Reading Logs due Friday.

We are planning our first opinion piece. Many students will begin the script portion of their PSA's as well as write creative plays for performance.

One Hundred Thirty-Third Day of School

In Science today we learned about air propulsion and experimented with our ideas on how to put it to use. Be advised, students will be sent home with an untied balloon in their backpacks. they have been instructed to not put the balloon to their mouth.

One Hundred Thirty-First Day of School

We will be working on our final writing unit and our final project in these last weeks of 1st grade before Open House.

Our final official writing genre will be persuasive/opinion writing. We will begin the unit forming and supporting opinions. Next we will write reviews (books, restaurants, games, etc.). Finally, we will write letters of appeal (time permitting). Today we learned the meaning of argument as it pertains to persuasive writing. Our final writing assessment will be to produce one of these products of  persuasion.

For our final project, the students will be producing a public service announcement which will be saved to their electronic portfolio. The area of study will be either health or environmental science. Students will choose from among the following topics:

• Recycling
• Composting
• Smoking
• Exercise
• Nutrition
• Bullying
• Candy Surplus

Most students have already chosen a topic and have been provided research which they will take notes from and develop into an informative piece. They will repurpose their informative piece into a script which will be taped. It has been suggested to students that they may provide their own additional research on their topic (most likely with parent assistance) to be brought into class (preferably in a note taking format).

If parents have any questions regarding any of this material, simply post questions to this post in the comments section.