Week of March 28th-April 1st

First Grade Newsletter

March 28th-April 1st

Literacy

KNOWLEDGE

Topic: A New Nation: American Independence

Core Connections (Knowledge already learned): Native Americans, Columbus, Pilgrims

Main selections: "The New World" / "A Taxing Time: The Boston Tea Party" / "The Shot Heard Round the World"

Word Work: settlements, goods, volunteers, independent

SKILLS 

• Skill(s):  oo-/oo/
• Review Skills: ee-/ee/; a_e-/ae/; i_e -/ie/; o_e- /oe/; u_e-/ue/
• Language: Noun Identification & Proper Nouns 
• Tricky Words: 
• Review Tricky Words: he, she, be, me, we, they, their, my, by, so, no, some, you, your
• Stories & Readers: The Trip West

Math in Focus

Chapter 8

Addition and Subtraction within 40

Objectives

     -Add ones to a 2-digit number without regrouping.

- Add tens to a 2-digit number.

-Add ones and tens to a 2-digit number without regrouping.

-Regroup ones into a 10 and ones.

    -Add ones to a 2-digit number with regrouping.

    -Add ones and tens to a 2-digit number with regrouping.

    -Add three numbers with regrouping.

    -Subtract ones from a 2-digit number without regrouping.

    -Subtract tens from a 2-digit numbers.

    -Subtract ones and tens from a 2-digit numbers without regrouping.

    -Regroup tens into tens and ones.

    -Subtract ones from a 2-digit numbers with regrouping.

    -Subtract ones and tens from a 2-digit number with regrouping.

    -Solve real-world problems involving addition and subtraction.

    -Use related addition and subtraction facts to check answers to real-world problems.

    -Solve real-world problems involving addition of three whole numbers whose sum is less than or equal to 20.

    -Use objects or pictures to find the total number of objects in groups of the same size.

    -Related repeated addition to the concept of multiplication.

Science

Students will continue to add to their knowledge about birds and how they survive. This week students will learn about different birds' beaks and how they help them survive. Students will complete an experiment where they will have to try and figure out which type of beak picks up specific shaped food.

 

 

Social Studies

Reading Street

Our social studies learning this week is embedded in our knowledge section of the day. This week students will begin expanding their knowledge about the New World and the different groups of settlers who helped create the 13 colonies.

Second Steps

In Second Steps, students will begin a new unit, Problem Solving. This unit will take them through the STEPs to work through a problem with a peer. This week students will learn the last two steps.

Geography

This week students will begin a new unit on geography. Students will learn about what geography teaches us about and will be able to explain tools that help us learn about geography. 

Specialists

MONDAY: P.E. 

TUESDAY: Art

WEDNESDAY: Music

THURSDAY: P.E.

FRIDAY: Art

Writing Workshop

When I Grow Up Writing Project

     This week students will work on their final draft and begin to illustrate their pictures.

                  

Parent Reminders

1.  Library on Monday- Please make sure your child has their library book in their backpack to return it and check out a new story!

 2.    Before school help is this Tuesday morning at 8AM.

 3. Please be sure your child returns their green school-to-home folder and their homework folder to school everyday.  Also, please check your child's school-to-home folder each day for important handouts. I will write about specific handouts that you should be looking for throughout the week in this section of the newsletter. Students should also have their red homework folders in their backpacks every day.

4.    Children should bring in a small healthy snack (separate from their lunch) to have in class at 9:50 a.m. Please make sure that it is nut-free and has no glass products.

5.  Homework Update- There are some changes to our homework schedule. 

     a.) Discussion Questions-Students will only need to record Discussion Questions for 1 out of the 4 homework nights. Even though you are only recording 1 night of discussion questions, your child still needs to continue to discuss the stories they are reading and listening to all 4 days of homework using the questions given.

     b.) Phonics: Spelling- Your child will bring home a list of spelling words. Please choose 2 nights to practice spelling the words given.

     c.) Automaticity: Words/Phrase/Passage- Automaticity means when something can be performed involuntarily and is an automatic response pattern or habit. Your child may have a word chart, phrase chart, or reading passage. Please the chart or passage twice per day. (This exercise counts towards your child's 10 minutes of reading per day.)

 d.) Math Homework- Please have your child play Race to 40. The game needs a die and objects to represent 10s and ones. I have given each student 2 place value charts, so that you can play along. The goal of this game is to practice adding ones and tens together as well as regrouping.

Have a fantastic last week of March!

Mrs. Ash

Homework

Your child will bring home their red homework folder on Monday. Inside the folder is a reading log, math activity (with materials), and individual login information for all of our online platforms. This week students should be reading for 10 minutes, write a letter in their journal, Race to 40 game (and practice addition math facts to 10), practice spelling word list, and read word chart, phrase chart, or reading passage twice.

Your child also will bring home their Dialogue Journal (penpal journal). Please read my letter and have your child respond to it in 1 penpal letter. If I did not write your child a letter, your child can write to me about anything s/he wants. Once your child has finished his/her letter, return it to school. If I did not receive your child's journal last week, please have your child write a letter to me this week and I will check both letters once the journal is turned in.