First Grade Newsletter
May 22nd-26th
Literacy
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?
Amazing Words: determined, inventor, stable, technology, stalled, biplane, sketch, speech
High-Frequency Words: built, early, learn, science, through
Phonics Target: Vowel pairs: aw, au (draw, launch); syllable pattern- diphthongs/digraphs (toybox)
Amazing Words: determined, inventor, stable, technology, stalled, biplane, sketch, speech
High-Frequency Words: built, early, learn, science, through
Phonics Target: Vowel pairs: aw, au (draw, launch); syllable pattern- diphthongs/digraphs (toybox)
Comprehension skills: Sequence
Comprehension strategy: Text Structure
Comprehension strategy: Text Structure
Genres: Biography
Written Expression: Predicate Expander "Why" (Kids work so they can learn.)
Reading Street Parent Connection:
Written Expression: Predicate Expander "Why" (Kids work so they can learn.)
Reading Street Parent Connection:
- Unit 5 Family talk letter for concept conversation starters and 6-week overview of the unit. (Sent home March 6th)
- Practice reading words (see white sheet sent home Friday) for Unit 5, Week 5 (fifth column).
Fundations: Unit 13, Week 1
Students will learn about...
- Adding -es ending to words ending with x, s, and z
- Trick Words: being, their, first
Math in Focus
Chapter 17: Addition & Subtraction to 100
**Chapter 17 Test will be on Thursday, May 25th**
Prerequisite Skills: Make 10s/1s, Add/Subtract 10s/1s with and without regrouping, relate addition/subtraction facts, check answers to addition and subtraction using related facts
**Chapter 17 Test will be on Thursday, May 25th**
Prerequisite Skills: Make 10s/1s, Add/Subtract 10s/1s with and without regrouping, relate addition/subtraction facts, check answers to addition and subtraction using related facts
Thinking Skills
- Deduction
- Identifying patterns and relationships
Problem Solving Strategies
- Simplifying the problem
- Guess and check
Objectives
- Add a 2-digit number to a 1 or 2-digit number with and without regrouping.
- Subtract 1 or 2-digit number from a 2-digit number without regrouping.
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Science
Invention Unit
Last week students began their airplane drawings and will finish them this week. We have read about the Wright Brothers, inventors of the airplane and this week we will discuss the three different types of feathers on a bird and their purpose.
Last week students began their airplane drawings and will finish them this week. We have read about the Wright Brothers, inventors of the airplane and this week we will discuss the three different types of feathers on a bird and their purpose.
Social Studies
Quality & Traits Unit
Last week we learned about John Henry and the Wright brothers as well as some of their qualities and traits. This week we will learn about our last famous American and find some of his traits plus evidence to support them.
Specialists
MONDAY: Music; Library
TUESDAY: P.E.
WEDNESDAY: Music
THURSDAY: P.E.
FRIDAY: Art; Music
Writing Workshop
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Writing Project
This week students will continue to work on what the animal would ask for or need if they gave them that object and what it would do with it.
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Writing Project
This week students will continue to work on what the animal would ask for or need if they gave them that object and what it would do with it.
1. We went to the library today. Please make sure that your child's book is returned either on Friday or next Monday.
2. Reading passages are due on Thursday. Reading Street Word Lists are due on Friday.
3. "Reading is thinking!" The most important part of your child's reading blog is the discussion they have with you about the books. Please mark down which questions you discuss. Thanks!
5. Before School help- Thursday at 8 a.m.
6. Each student needs to bring in a snack everyday to school. If this is not possible for you, please let me know and we can work something out. Thank you!
7. Wish List: paper towels and Clorox wipes. If you have sent supplies in with your child, thank you for donating!
8. Early release- Tuesday, May 23rd at noon
9. End of the Year Assessments continue. This week we will continue DIBELS testing this week.
10. Celebration of Learning was a fun night! Thank you to everyone who came to celebrate your child's growth this year!
11. Stone Zoo- A field trip permission slip will be going home tomorrow. The permission slips are due back on Friday, May 26th.
12. Animal Project- Each child picked (from a hat) an animal we'll see at the Stone Zoo next month. This project is due on Friday, June 2nd.
13. Our Patriotic Presentation is this Friday, May 26th from 9:30 to 10:30 in our school auditorium (cafeteria). Please do not arrive prior to 9:15. The kids have been busy practicing. We hope you can make it!
Have a fantastic week!
Miss Biggar
Homework for the Week
Daily
Reading Words (Phonics/Sight)
Reading Log (with discussion questions)
Number/Letter Formation
Math Facts (Addition and Subtraction)
Number/Letter Formation
Math Facts (Addition and Subtraction)
Tuesday: Math (due Friday)
Wednesday: Dialogue Journal (due on Friday)
Thursday: Animal Project (due on Friday, June 2nd)
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