Growing Plants and Reading Nonfiction

Dear families,

The plants are getting REALLY big! They're so beautiful. We think the plants will flower soon. The seeds will be inside the flowers. The plants are so tall they're almost falling down. They have big leaves now too.

We did a read aloud called Plantzilla about a plant that gets REALLY REALLY big. It even eats hamburgers and drinks milk. When the flowers bloomed a chiuaua popped out! (It had eaten the family's pet dog.) In this story the plant eats human food. This week when we studied nonfiction topics, Chloe learned that real plants make their own food from the sun.

We are reading nonfiction books and learning how to take nonfiction notes. This week we all signed up for something that we wanted to study. The topics were bats, sharks, plants, mammals and fish & crayfish. We made posters for each topic, and stuck post-it notes on the posters with real facts that we learned from studying nonfiction books. We learned that nonfiction notes are short, true facts that you write down. Some of our nonfiction notes are:

• Sharks sometimes eat birds that float on the water.
• Seeds grow inside a plant's flowers.
• Bats can swim, jump and climb.
• Mice can have up to fifteen babies in one litter.
• When baby fish hatch they are called fry.

Here are our posters that we made over the last two days:

Keep writing comments, families! We love to read them every Friday!

Adios!
The First Graders