Our 1st Grade Classroom News Week of April 16th – 20th Email: valorietrombley@johnston.k12.nc.us Important Information Dates to Know * Report Cards are coming home today! Please sign & return the brown envelope. The Report Card is yours to keep! * We are starting to grade homework assignments together in class now! Hopefully this will help the kids understand exactly what is expected on end-of-year assessments. I’ll attach this rubric to the Reading Journal for you to see each night too. A passing score is a level 2 or a level 3 only! Thanks for encouraging your child to do homework as independently as possible! 4/16: Report Cards 4/16, 4/17, 4/18, 4/19: i-Ready testing for our class 4/19 – 4/25: Book Fair 4/19: Book Fair Family Night from 4:00-7:00 4/23 – 5/15: mClass end-of-year testing 4/27: PTA Spring Fling 5/2: Early Release 5/4: RES Spirit Day 5/9: Progress Reports 5/11: Talent Show at 6:00pm 5/28: No School 6/1: RES Spirit Day 6/7: Early Dismissal & Last Day of School Our Learning Focus Theme: Mammals (also a Science standard) Math: New unit on Place Value Phonics: Long Vowel Sounds & “Bully E” at the end of a word (vowel/consonant/e words) Reading Focus: Identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic Writing Focus: Opinion pieces that state an opinion & provide supporting reasons Science: Comparing properties of soil & animal life cycles Social Studies: Map Skills & Landforms Words to Remember WWW: make, outside, move, find, just, school Word Families: -eed, -ead, -eave