Dr. Suess

SCS was welcomed back from vacation on Tuesday with a Read Around America Celebration. We celebrated the birthday of Dr. Seuss with a K-5 assembly, a school wide 7 minute "Drop Everything and Read" time, guest readers throughout the day and a bunch of Dr. Seuss activities. Sue Schaefer, Patty Spagnolo, Nancy Colbourn and Allegra Miller were all guest readers in our classroom. This was a terrific way to get back into the swing of things at school. Check out their pictures below.

Firefly First Grade completed our CSSU Science Inquiry Assessment this week. This assessment required students to sort rocks into 2-4 categories, name the categories, give the sort a title and then write a letter to Echo about how they thought these rocks should be sorted. Everyone did a fantastic job with this and had fun in the process.
Next week we will be completing the CSSU Spring On-Demand Writing Prompt. This prompt will require students to write about why baby animals have to stay with their mothers. Then we will begin a unit on Opinion writing where we read Mentor texts and respond to what characters do or how they feel.

Next week will be the final week for this Social Studies/Science rotation. Our new units will begin the week of March 19th. Mrs. Nakhleh will be teaching "Changes in the Earth and Sky". I will be teaching "Physical Geography".

A reminder that report cards went home today in Friday folders. If you have any questions or concerns about them please feel free to contact me. Conferences are being held in April and will be centered around your child and the work they have done during the 2nd trimester. Please check the wikki schedule on the Firefly webpage to confirm your time. If you have not signed up yet, please do so sometime in the near future. I would like to have students to attend these conferences with their families.

Have a great weekend,
Nancy