Muscial Mania!

Happy Monday, families! We had a great day as we are gearing up to our big performance this Thursday for our musical. We spent our morning rotating through all three first grade classroom working on different activities relating to Earth Day and rocks. Have you child tell you about their volcano experiment with Ms. Burks, writing about what they can do to help the Earth with Mrs. Godwin and making moon rocks with me. It was a fun morning. Because we are working hard on the musical, we are not having any Storytown homework or activities this week. This means, no spelling words or reading homework. Be sure to encourage your child to bring home an AR book or read on their own, but I will not be sending homework for reading this week.

In math we introduced FRACTIONS! Wow! Check your child's initial understanding of this concept by asking them to tell you what fractions are. We learned today that fraction are simply equal parts of something. We read a book to help introduce the concept, too, called "Give Me Half". Have your child tell you about it. Your first grader is bringing home a Homelink page. Please help them complete their Homelink and return it tomorrow. We will be working with 1/2 and 1/4 tomorrow.

Don't forget to return your spring pictures and your carnival forms. We still need volunteers to run our booth. Let me know if you would be able to help for a 30 minute shift in our room.

Have a wonderful night together. Enjoy your family. As always, let me know if you need anything.