Week of May 9th-May 13th

  First Grade Newsletter

May 9th-May 13th

Literacy

KNOWLEDGE

Reading Street: Unit 5 Week 5

Main selection: Alexander Graham Bell: A Great Inventor

Weekly Question:  How can a great idea change the way we live?

Comprehension skills: Sequence
Comprehension strategy: Text Structure

Genres: Biography

SKILLS 

• Skill(s):  oi- /oi/
• Review Skills: ee-/ee/; a_e-/ae/; i_e -/ie/; o_e- /oe/; oo-/oo/; oo-/oo/; ou- /ou/
• Language: Identify Present- and Past-Tense Verbs
• Tricky Words: work, word, write
• Review Tricky Words: he, she, be, me, we, they, their, my, by, so, no, some, you, your, because, been, little, own, want, could, should, would, Mr., Mrs.
• Stories & Readers: The Bag of Coins 

Math in Focus

Chapter 11

Addition and Subtraction within 100

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.

- Add ones to a 2-digit number with regrouping

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

    - Subtract ones from a 2-digit number without regrouping

    - Subtract tens from a 2-digit number

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

    - Subtract ones from a 2-digit number with regrouping

    - Subtract ones and tens from a 2-digit number

 

Science

This week students will learn about birds' nests and how the offspring survive by building strong nests.

 

 

Social Studies

Reading Street

Our social studies learning this week is embedded in our reading program. We will be focusing on great ideas through our readings.  This week the children will work to answer the question "How can a great idea change the way we live?".

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 practice all 4 steps of the STEP process

Geography

Last week students learned about the continents and oceans of the world. This week students will learn about where they live (the country, state, city/town, and address).

Specialists

MONDAY: Art 

TUESDAY: Music

WEDNESDAY: P.E.

THURSDAY: Art

FRIDAY: Music

Writing Workshop

Writing (Skills)

In Skills, students will continue to practice the process of writing (plan, draft, and edit). Students will continue to write their drafts of the retell of "The Two Dogs" story and begin to edit their draft.

Informative (Genre)

Students will begin to write their draft of their Wingmaster's informative writing piece using sentence starters appropriate for each part of informative writing.

                  

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 practice the SUBTRACTION math facts.

 e.) Animal Project- In place of the penpal journal entry this week, students will complete an animal project page on one of the Stone Zoo animals that we will be seeing when we go on our field trip. Once students finish and turn in their project, students will share their information with the class and then become the "expert" of their animal in their field trip group.

6. Stone Zoo Field Trip Volunteers- We had an outpouring of volunteers to help with the zoo field trip. I will be getting in contact with all of the families who have reached out to me over the past couple weeks. Thank you for supporting our class!

7. Stone Zoo Field Trip Permission Slips- Please send in permission slips ASAP! Thank you!

Have a fabulous week!

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, practice play lines (if they have a part) and the American Symbols songs, complete animal project, practice SUBTRACTION math facts, practice spelling word list, and read word chart, phrase chart, or reading passage twice.

Your child will not bring home their penpal journal this week. In place of writing a penpal letter, students will complete their animal project.