First graders are hopping into second grade as the school year draws to a close.  The children continue improve their reading skills as they learn to read for meaning.  They are making connections to text as it applies in their real world.  In addition to making self-to-text connections, they are working on making text-to-text connections.  They are realizing similarities and differences in books of the same genre/theme.

In math, children continue to work on fractions, time, money, and number stories.

Please remember to join us on June 9th as children share their poems.  In Mrs. Easton's class, the children wrote cinquains.  The poems involve a pattern using different parts of speech we have been working on all year. In Mrs. Fitzgerald's class the children have worked on writing rhyming poems.  Both classes have also prepared a special presentation.

As the summer approaches it is very important that children continue reading daily.  We wish you a happy and safe summer and look forward to seeing everyone in August!