Our focus this week in Word Work was on the soft c sound in words ending in e. The focus words we used daily in our Shared Reading sentences were: face, race, rice, and dice.

In Math, we continue to hone our fact recall skills with Math Minutes twice a week. The students are given 15 addition facts to solve in one minute. We have been practicing our doubles facts as well as identifying numbers that we can add together to make ten. We will continue to do Math Minutes twice a week for the rest of the year. Next week, the students will be given 15 subtraction questions. The facts have a sum no larger than 10 for these timed "tests".

We continued to work on our Animal Movements booklets in Science and are close to having them complete. We have been focusing on animals that fly, hop, swim, walk, and climb.

It has been very interesting to observe our eagle family this week as the eaglets are growing and changing daily. They are beginning to grow their feathers and are much larger and stronger than they were prior to Spring Break. If you have not had a chance to see them yet, you can view them at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4-L2nfGcuE.

Today, the students worked on a torn paper art piece of an eagle. They had to tear small pieces of magazine photos and collage them to create this art. We will finish these next week. The finished one below was done by one of our Grade 4 buddies but the Grade 1's art will look very similar!

We continue to work with the 5 W questions (who, what, where, when, why as well as how) when writing sentences. This week, I gave the students the picture below and asked them to come up with an "I wonder" question for each "W". Please see some examples below.

It looks like we will have some great weather for at least the next few days. I hope you can all get out and soak in some sunshine. Enjoy! :)