IMPORTANT INFORMATION
We are on the downhill slope to the finish line of first grade! If we counted correctly, there are about 27 days left of school. The end of the year is approaching quickly, and we will be sharing the end of year events on the blog in the upcoming weeks. This week, we don’t have any special events other than teacher appreciate 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 from the room moms: Dear Parents, As many of you know next week is teacher appreciation week. If you are interested in doing a group gift for Ms. Terry and/or Ms Mack there will be an envelope in each of their classrooms. Send any money with your student and Ms Terry/Ms Mack will put the money in that envelope. We will collect the money on Wednesday May 2nd. We will not be collecting at the end of the year. This group gift will combine teacher appreciation and end of the year gift for our amazing teachers. Teachers often get asked what they would prefer to receive for gifts. The feedback we have heard from teachers is they would like money/gift cards in order to buy things for their classrooms. Sending in money is completely voluntary. Thank you, Rachel Davis and Stephanie Ward (Room parents for Ms Terry and Mack) 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! Bring your planner and folder daily to school! We are having MANY students who are simply “forgetting” their planner at home. Please help them remember to bring it daily. FIELD TRIP UPDATE: The first grade field trip is coming up! The date is now May 15th. 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. VOLUNTEERING: There are open slots to volunteer in Ms. Terry's room! Here is the link if you want to sign up: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f094ba9ac2ba7fd0-volunteer Ms. Mack also has open slots for volunteering! Here's her link: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f094ba9ac2ba7fd0-help LUNCH CHOICES Monday: Cheesy Chicken Quesadilla, Hamburger, or Grilled Cheese Sandwich Tuesday: Chicken Alfredo, 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: Chicken Enchiladas, 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. 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! Last week we started learning 3 of our new characters, and we will be learning the rest this week. 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), 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. Science and Social Studies: Both classes had a wonderful time making recycled robots last Friday (see Dojo for photos and video footage)! Thank you for sending materials with your students--we were so pleased at everyone's willingness to share what they had with their peers. All of our caterpillars have moved on to the chrysalis stage and we are now waiting for the butterflies to emerge! We are continuing to talk about the life cycle of butterflies this week, and will also talk about changes other animals experience in the spring. 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 8th grade this coming school year are welcome to enroll! (Ms. Mack has applied to teach the second grade section at Ridgecrest—fingers crossed!). Please visit the following link for more information: http://chinese.uofuyouth.com/
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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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