A belated thank you to all the parents that helped out at our ice skating party. We could not have done it without you. We had a great time. The first graders turned out to be great skaters!
Report cards will be sent home on Friday, March 12th. Please sign and return the envelope as proof of your receipt.
EVENTS:
March 24/25th are the Drama Club "Annie" performances. We will most likely be attending the performance on the 25th.
March 26th is Beye School's 130th Anniversary celebration. All-school activities will be set up much like the health fair during that morning.
SPRING BREAK begins at the end of the day on March 26th and school resumes on April 5th.
STUDENT COUNCIL
Student Council is sponsoring a supply drive for the people of Haiti. You are encouraged to donate any of the following supplies: kids' clothing, games, French books or movies, coloring books and crayons, adult and older girl sized underwear, premie and newborn diapers. There is a collection box in Mrs. Walsh-Kallay's room.
WELLNESS COMMITTEE
The school Wellness Committee is sponsoring a food drive. The food drive is going on now until the 26th of the month. Please send in any canned or preserved goods.
FAMILY MATH NIGHT
Family Math Night is a chance for you to come and work with your child on a variety of math activities! You will work your way through different concepts and learn ways to help your child at home! Hope to see you there!
Date: Thursday, March 18
Time: 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Where: Beye School Commons
Who: K-5 Families
Each participant will receive a raffle ticket for a chance to win a prize!
Baby-sitting will be available!
LANGUAGE ARTS
We are nearing the end of Unit 6 "Journeys". Next week we will begin Unit 7 "Keep Trying". The students will now be reading from an anthology and will be given weekly reading comprehension tests. These tests will have some multiple choice, some short answer and extended response kinds of questions. This will be a big change for the first graders as they learn to respond in complete sentences, and to make written connections related to their readings. There will also be weekly vocabulary tests and "spelling in writing" tests. The "Keep Trying" theme will include stories of perseverance. In this unit the students will work on story structure, use prior knowledge, and make and explain inferences. Our language conventions will cover past tense verbs, possessive pronouns, and comparing adjectives. We will also work on concept words, antonyms, classification, and short and long vowel spellings.
SOCIAL STUDIES
Our next unit in Social Studies is entitled "Everything Changes". The first graders will be learning that history is the story about people, places, and events from the past. We will be reading and talking about customs and traditions of groups of people from the past.
HEALTH/SCIENCE
This week we will be finishing up on some health lessons. These remaining lessons have to do with empathy training, impulse control and problem solving, and anger management.
The past few weeks we have also been working on our Physical Science unit of Solids and Liquids. This unit teaches students to describe solids and liquids by their properties. The students have been observing and comparing a variety of solids and running observational tests on color, shape, the ability of solids to roll or stack, hardness, magnetic attraction and floating and sinking. Future lessons will cover viscosity and fluidity.
MATH
We continue our work with fact triangles, the addition/subtraction table, and place value for tens and ones. The "What's My Rule" routine is a weekly part of this unit. Our explorations will be with pattern blocks, triangle shapes and geoboards. The quarter will be introduced in lesson 6.9. We will finish up the unit with digital clocks, timing in seconds and data collection. Please make sure your child is using the triangle flash cards that have come home as Homelinks. This is crucial to achieving "FACT POWER"!
CELEBRATIONS
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Nora Wollen
Nora Wollen
March 11th
Andrew Kitzman
March 20th
Savannah Broderick
March 29th
