march blog

 

 

 

March

• March 2nd   - Dr. Seuss birthday
• March 3rd   -  Dr. Seuss's birthday celebrated in first grade
• March 5th   -  Permission slips in digital locker for partition in St. Patrick's Day Parade
• March 5th   -  No school / Ash Wednesday / Lent begins
• March 6th   -  Father Mark visits first grade
• March 9th   -  Daylight savings time begins - turn clocks back
• March 11th -  St. Patrick's Day permission slips are due back to front office
• March 14th -  Quarter ends
• March 15th -  Colorado Springs St. Patrick's Day Parade
• March 17th -  St. Patrick's Day
• March 18th -  Report cards go home
• March 19th -  Feast Day of Saint Joseph - Donuts for Dads - 9:00 in cafeteria
• March 20th -  Spring begins
• March 24th -  Spring break 24th - 28th

 

 Religion

First grade is finishing a unit on Mary Mother of God. Daily the first graders have been writing a chronological order of events about Mary's life. On March 6th Father Mark will visit and answer  questions on the Bible and Catholic teachings and traditions. The students have been coming up with wonderful and powerful questions. Lent begins on March 5th. We will have daily reflections for the 40 days of Lent. On Monday and Friday of Lent the students will pray the Rosary during whole school morning gathering. The students will receive a Rosary book and will learn to say the Rosary in class. On March 17th the first graders will learn about Saint Patrick.

 

Language arts

The first graders are enjoying their reading and writing time. They just finished a fun writing activity on the Olympics. If you are in the school, please visit their Olympic writing which is displayed outside our classroom.  Their writing is developing and demonstrating the importance of idea, organization, voice, word choice, and convention. I am very proud of their detail to writing. They are reading across the curriculum. For the past two weeks we have been reading about the solar system and breaking down words such as, atmosphere, diameter, astronomers, telescopes, international, temperature, carbon dioxide, and orbit, just to name a few.  I have been so proud to watch their inference skills at work. Their chunking, syllabication, and phoneme awareness has made me proud! 

 

 

 

Dr. Seuss Day in First Grade - Monday, March 3rd

 

 

Math

We will finish topic 7 this week. Topic seven reviewed counting and number patterns.  The following is done on a daily basis outside our normal math lesson: telling time, counting money, and timed math facts. Center activities also have math enrichment (measurement, clocks, math facts, money).

 

 

Science

 

With all the school delays/closings and other activities we have finally finished our solar system unit. Their solar system book should be going home the first week of March. Students will have a post test on the solar system on Friday, March 7th. A study guide will go home on Monday, March 3rd. We all had a great time reading, writing, and drawing the solar system.

 

During March the students will be studying about living things and their environment. This unit will tie in some of their solar system learning. We will look at the ocean, ocean plants and ocean life. As the ocean is studied we will look at the tides and the gravitational attraction of the moon and the sun on the ocean.

 

We will also be looking at the inside of the Earth as we make the crust, mantle, core (inner and outer) with play-doh

Social Studies

During March we will look at Early civilizations. We will discuss crossing the land bridge, prehistoric animals, Mesopotamia, Egypt and early Christianity.  

 

READ!  READ!  READ!

Please continue to read with your child. The first graders should read every day at home. I am currently building an A.R. library in the classroom, for those who finish more than one A.R. book during the week.  This library will give students the opportunity to check out a new book inside the classroom.

 

 

**On Line Educational Game

Below is a fun website with many educational games. As always please review games before your child plays. Just click on the website and have fun.

http://interactivesites.weebly.com/addition.html

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!!