ROOM 8 WEEKLY ANNOUNCEMENTS:Week of March 2, 2020

FIELD TRIP NEWS: We have enough drivers and chaperones for our field trip to Tanaka Farm and Natural History Museum THANK YOU SO MUCH!

FLAT STANLEY PROJECT: Just a reminder that Flat Stanley project is due back in our classroom by Friday, March 20th. Need ideas for the finished product? It can be a poster, a binder, Powerpoint/Google slides, or simply put all the letters in the brown envelope and turn it in. It can be returned in any format! Be creative and have fun!

February Scholastic Book Order: Orders were submitted and books should arrive in the next few days.

READ ACROSS AMERICA is this week. Information about the optional activities is printed on the back of this announcement!

LOOKING AHEAD:March 7 School Beautification &Auction Viewing and Bidding in auditoriumMarch 11Progress Report goes homeMarch 30Publishing Party (8:40 AM)April 20 Field trip to Tanaka FarmJune 1Field trip to Natural History Museum

Just a reminder: Encourage your child to

Optional Reading Log available at our class website www.ombaomv.weebly.com

READING WORKSHOPReaders Have a Big Jobs to Do: Fluency, Phonics, and Comprehension/Reader’s Theater

WRITING Writing Reviews and Creating Board Games

MATHGiven a two-digit number, mentally find 10 more or 10 less than the number, without having to count; explain the reasoning used.SAMPLE 1ST GRADE PROBLEMS CAN BE ACCESSED BY GOING TOhttp://www.dusd.net/cgi/files/2014/08/Sample-Word-Problems-First-Grade.pdf

SCIENCE:Seeds and Parts of a Plant

SOCIAL STUDIES: Recognize similarities and differences of earlier generations in such areas as work (inside and outside the home), dress, manners, stories, games, and festivals, drawing from biographies, oral histories, and folklore

HEALTH:Discuss the importance of preventing the transmission of germs.

COMPUTER:Emphasis on: Scholastic Story StartersYou may access the weekly technology lesson/link at home by going to:https://sites.google.com/a/planetbravo.com/mvweek/1st-grade