IMPORTANT INFORMATION
We are on the downhill slope to the finish line of first grade! If we counted correctly, there are about 28 days left of school. The end of the year is approaching quickly, and we will continue to share updates and reminders regarding end of year events on the blog in the upcoming weeks. May 9 Traditionz BYU Dancers assembly May 10 Dibels Testing K-2nd grades May 13 Monday Morning Meeting May 16 First Grade field trip May 17 Ridgecrest Runners Marathon Finish Line May 21 School Carnival- 5:00 – 8:00 PM May 23 Volunteer Thank You Lunch 11:30-1:00 May 27 Memorial Day – No School June 4 Field Day 1st – 5th Grades June 6 Last Day of School – Very Early release 12:40 No Breakfast or Lunch Served This week, we don’t have any special events other than teacher appreciation week. We want to take a moment to say thank you to all of our fabulous parents and grandparents! We truly love each one of your students and enjoy working with them each day. Their growth is astounding and we are so honored to know this group of first grade dual immersion students! A note about sleep: We are having many students coming to school sleepy and tired. As a result, we are recognizing that those sleepy students are chattier, easily bored, and not as engaged in their learning. Please help your student get to bed on time so that their learning is maximized! FIELD TRIP UPDATE: The first grade field trip is coming up! The date is May 16th. We have had a lot of parents ask if they can meet us down there. The answer is: YES! We would love to have you meet us down there. If you are planning on meeting us at the museum, you are still required to sign up as a volunteer through Canyons School District. Here is the link: https://foundation.canyonsdistrict.org/index.php/volunteer. Volunteers who are meeting the first grade classes at the museum will need to arrange their own travel to and from the museum, and will have to pay for their own entrance. We will ensure that parents or family volunteers will be in the same group as their students. We are so excited for this field trip--it is seriously one of the best field trips the teachers have been on, including the ones that we went on as students ourselves ;) HOMEWORK: Homework will be sent home on Monday and students may return it for feedback on Friday. LUNCH CHOICES Monday: Baked Potato, Hamburger, or Grilled Cheese Sandwich Tuesday: Egg Roll, Mini Corn Dogs or Chef Salad Wednesday: Hot Ham and Cheese Sandwich, Cheesy Nachos, or Tuna Sandwich Thursday: Dutch Waffle, Chicken Nuggets or Taco Salad Friday: Pizza Rippers, Burrito, or Turkey Sandwich Monday: Whole Grain Soft Pretzel, Hamburger, or Grilled Cheese Sandwich Tuesday: BBQ Personal Pizza, Mini Corn Dogs or Chef Salad WHAT WE ARE LEARNING: ELA: This week our story is titled “Mole and the Baby Bird.” The question of the week is: How can we look at things in a different way? We will be talking and thinking about what is fair, thinking about how others may feel, listening to what others say and learning from our own experiences. The story is an animal fantasy. We will be working on drawing conclusions and building our background knowledge. Our phonics patterns will be ow, ou again this week. We will also be working on the syllables v/cv and v/cv. Our spelling words will be /ou/ this week. We are working on learning and using pronouns correctly. Some ways we will be achieving our learning objectives is through oral tasks, partner talks, increasing our opportunities to respond and using our whiteboards. We also will be using pipe cleaners to write our spelling words. We also have been increasing the amount of time we read each day. We are working on making sure we are reading each day for at least 12-15 minutes through partner reading, group reading and even silent reading. Our Spelling Words: mouth, house, found, our, out, cloud, ouch, shout, round, count, should**, and loved** Challenge words: doghouse, bounce, loudly and sprout Chinese: Students have moved on to the second unit of second grade material! The characters we will focus on in unit 2 (for the next two and a half weeks) are: 朋友(friend), 的(possessive particle), 哪 (how/which/where), 这 (this/these), 那 (that/those), 吗 (question particle for "yes-no" questions). Math: The students started the math unit on time last week. They are doing a great job! They are learning the hour and minute hands. They will be working on recognizing time to the hour and half hour on an analog clock. They will also be working on addition and subtraction review to keep their math fact skills up and running! Science and Social Studies: All of our caterpillars will be moving into the chrysalis stage and then we will be waiting for the butterflies to emerge! We are starting to talk about the life cycle of butterflies this week, and will also talk about changes other animals experience in the spring. This week's secret word is actually an affirmation! If students tell either teacher the phrase: "I can do hard things", they will receive a prize. Students should be able to say this phrase in Chinese, too :) Chinese Summer Camp: The University of Utah’s Confucius Institute is hosting an intensive, week-long Chinese summer camp in July at several locations, including Ridgecrest! Students will participate in a two hour language class in the morning, and receive a cultural lesson in the afternoon with guest teachers from China. Dual immersion students who will be in 2nd through 6th grade this coming school year are welcome to enroll! Please visit the following link for more information: https://continue.utah.edu/youth/chinese-immersion
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TeachersMs. Terry and Ms. Mack are so excited for this year! In Ms. Terry's class, students will speak, read, and write in English. In Ms. Mack's class, students will be speak, listen, read, and write in Chinese. Archives
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