Welcome to
miss rockman's 1st grade classroom!
Dear Parents,
I cannot believe the year is almost over. I have truly enjoyed every moment I have spent with your children. They are the highlight of my day. I always tell them that Fridays make me sad because I know that I will not get to see them for a whole two days – and I truly do get sad on the weekends. They bring so much light to days. I am so proud of all their efforts and improvements they have each made. Each child has truly grown in their academically and personally. I still remember the first day I met them before Mrs. Kobylarz left and thinking ‘these are the students that I am going to spend the rest of the year with, I wonder what they’ll be like’ and now that the year comes to an end the thoughts that I have are ‘I wonder if they will remember me, I wonder if they enjoyed the year as much as I have’. I truly hope your children learned from me as much as I learned from them. I also truly hope they will think back to their 1st grade experience as positive one. I look forward to the remaining weeks of the year with them and look forward to seeing them continue to grow.
Happy Spring!
Love, Miss Rockman
Our May and June Literacy Goals:
We will continue with Readers and Writers Workshops with our literacy unit called “Fairy Tales”. We will gain information about different people and cultures by exploring legends, fables, and fairy tales. We will discover that in our world we may be different, but we have many things in common. We will develop characters, setting, and a plot to tell a great story. We will continue to review previously taught skills, along with focusing on: identifying story elements: characters, setting, problem and solution, making inferences, comparing and contrasting, sequencing, creating mental images when reading, using the beginning, middle, and ending to retell a story, making text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections, completing graphic organizers (webs, charts, Venn diagrams), recognizing differences between fact and opinion, reading with fluency, writing a letter, and writing a fairy tale with a beginning, middle, and ending using details, describing words, onomatopoeia, dialogue, and transition words. In addition, we will work on Unit 12 in Fundations with learning about suffix –es added to basewords with closed syllables, along with reviewing plural words and story re-telling. Also, we will work on Unit 13 with learning about suffixes –ed and -ing added to basewords with closed syllables, along with story re-telling. Lastly, we will work on Unit 14 with learning about long vowel sounds for vowel-consonant-e words.
Our May and June Math Goals
We will continue do the calendar as part of our daily routine, which includes the date, the days of the week, the months of the year, patterns, and counting the days using hundreds, tens, and ones. Also we will identify and describe three-dimensional shapes according to their attributes, compose a new shape by combining three-dimensional shapes, use composite three-dimensional shapes to build new shapes, identify three-dimensional shapes used to build a composite shape using the strategy “act it out,” and identify two-dimensional shapes on three-dimensional shapes. In addition, we will be using defining attributes to sort shapes, describing attributes of two-dimensional shapes, using objects to compose new two-dimensional shapes, compose a new shape by combining two-dimensional shapes, make new shapes from composite two-dimensional shapes using the strategy “act it out,” decompose combined shapes into shapes, decompose two-dimensional shapes into parts, identify equal and unequal parts (or shares) in two-dimensional shapes, partition circles and rectangles into two equal shares and partition circles and rectangles into four equal shares. We will conclude the year by practicing all the skills taught in first grade to get ready for second grade!
Our May and June Science and Social Studies Goals:
-Memorial Day/Flag Day
-Maps
-Technology
-Father’s and Mother’s Day
End of the Year Homework Policy
As the year comes to an end there will be a few adjustments in the homework policy, specifically our weekly reading logs. Each week your child is required to read for a minimum of 15-20 minutes a night – this applies to weekends as well. The more your child reads the better read they will becomes, the better writer they will become, the better speller they will become and they will gain more knowledge. It is imperative your make your child reads every night and that you make an effort to read to them. When children are read to it helps to build their vocabulary and thus helps them when they read books are on their own. You will all find a new reading log in their folders. Please make sure they complete it and that you sign off it. Any reading log not having a parent/guardian signature it not considered complete. I will be collecting their reading logs weekly (not daily). On weekends they must complete 2 reading logs – but they may always do an extra one if they’d like.
Important Dates
Friday, May 9........ Field Trip to Green Meadows Farm
Friday, May 24.........Grandview Field Day
Monday, May 19 and Tuesday, May 20.....Grade 1 District Language Arts Test
Tuesday, May 27 and Wednesday, May 28.....Grade. 1 District Math Test
Monday, May 26 - Memorial Day - No School
Thursday, June 19.....Last Day of School - Half Day 1:20 Dismissal
