Math 

Chapter 13 - Geometry

In this chapter, children will work with different plane and solid figures as they explore the Essential Question: How can I describe two and three dimensional shapes? The children will focus on the defining and non-defining attributes of two and three dimensional shapes. They will also compose two and three dimensional shapes, identify two dimensional shapes as faces of three dimensional shapes and sort two and three dimensional shapes. 

Religion

Pentecost

The children will be learning about Pentecost. Jesus promised his disciples He would send them a helper. He sent them the Holy Spirit. We call the day the Holy Spirit came Pentecost. The Holy Spirit helped the disciples become God’s new family, the Church. The disciples did many things to help grow the Church. We will read from our child’s Bible, Acts 1:8 and John 14:26, where it is explained that the Holy Spirit would be sent by the Father, that He would teach them all things. The children will complete a stained glass Pentecost craft. 

Chapter 13 - Jesus Begins His Work

The children will learn that Jesus was called “rabbi” and spent His public life teaching about God’s love.

We will discuss Jesus’ special love for children We will read the story of Jesus blessing the children from our children’s Bible (Mark 10:13-15) 

ELA

Wonders 

Essential Question:  Why do we celebrate holidays?
Vocabulary: display, pride, design, purpose, represe
Comprehension skill: Text features within non-fiction texts
Spelling Pattern: -unk spelling pattern
Word Work: Punctuation

SCIENCE
 

Our chicks are flying the coop!!

Please join first grade for a 

“Chicknale” 

on Wednesday, May 26th from 10:30 - 11:00 

Via Google Meet (Link to follow)

The first grade students have begun a 21 day learning adventure. The children have prepared an incubator habitat for chick eggs! Each day we go into the “Chick Lab” to observe the chick's life cycle and prepare for hatching. 

The students have completed a science experiment showing that eggs are porous. Porous means having tiny holes, called pores that allow air to go through. The porous shell allows air to travel to the growing chick and carbon dioxide to escape. 

The students had a chance to candle the chick eggs.  Egg candling is a method of shining light inside an egg to help you see what’s going on inside.  We were able to identify the embryo, blood vessels and air cell. We were even able to see some chicks moving inside of the eggs!

Our chicks have hatched...

     Announcing the hatching of 

Pippy Mayfair
May 11, 2021

Alex Mayfair
Sonic Mayfair
May 12, 2021

Proud Parents

1-1 and 1-2

The students will be allowed to hold the chicks.  Please let us know via email if you would prefer your child not handle the chicks.