March is here (in like a lion-out like a lamb) and most of us are looking forward to shedding our winter layers. It is always amazing to keep an eye out for the first signs of spring! This can be a very exciting but long month.  It’s always a good idea to enjoy some outdoor fun, especially after such a long winter. However, please maintain your child’s good study habits and keep his/her reading and math fact responsibilities on track. Thank you! At school, we will continue to work hard to do our best and to strengthen our reading, writing, and math skills as we continue through the second half of first grade.

                   Important Dates and Reminders

Spirit Week of 3/2-3/6
- Monday 3/2: Wear Your Pajamas!
- Tuesday 3/3: Twisted Tuesday

- Wednesday 3/4: Naquag School Spirit gear or wear school colors (blue & white)    

- Thursday 3/5: Sports Day

- Friday 3/6: Color War - 1st Grade wears BLUE

Rest of March:
- Rescheduled - TBD First Grade Field Trip to Hanover Theater

- 3/8: Daylight Saving Time (Spring Ahead!)

- 3/12 Happy Birthday Aleko 🎂 

- 3/14 Happy Birthday Ben V. 🎂 

- 3/16 Happy Birthday Pendo 🎂 

-3/19: Half Day for teacher professional development

- 3/24: Cultural Night

-3/23 - 3/26: March Book Fair

-3/27 Second Grade Immigration Presentation

-3/31 First Grade Women in History Presentation (more details coming soon!)

Curriculum Corner  

HMH Into Reading

This month we will finish up Module 7 and begin Module 8: Tell Me a Story. Over the coming weeks, our class will discover that we can learn lessons from the stories we read and hear. We will read a variety of literature, and we will discover that all over the world and throughout time, people have enjoyed listening to and telling stories.

Writer’s Workshop

In Module 7 we worked on different types of poems, we will wrap that up in the next two weeks and in Module 8, students will write a personal narrative about someone who helped them overcome a problem.

Eureka Math

We will continue to work on Module 4: Comparison and Composition of Length Measurements. Once completed, we will move onto Module 5, where students develop an understanding of the base ten system. They continue to advance their use of tens and ones as they compose and compare numbers. Students then make easier problems to add and subtract within 100. As you know, it is highly recommended that our first graders become fluent with their addition and subtraction math facts for a confident recall. So please keep practicing those number facts at home! Thank-you.

Science

We will be studying earth science this month in first grade. Our first graders will discover that air is a mixture of gasses that is all around us and that wind is moving air. Your child should be able to describe the weather changes from day to day and over the seasons making connections to the ever-changing world around us.

Social Studies

For the month of March, we will focus on important women in American history with stories about the lives of Amelia Earhart, Helen Keller, Mae Jemmison, Rosa Parks, Ruby Bridges, and Eleanor Roosevelt. 

*Our class person of distinction for this month will be Eleanor Roosevelt.

                                                 Happy (almost) Spring!           

                                               Corey Macaruso🌷