First Grade Newsletter
April 2nd-6th
Literacy
Reading Street: Unit 4 Week 5
Main selection: Peter's Chair
Weekly Question: What treasures can we share at home?
Amazing Words: jealous, relatives, sibling, secret, porridge, collector, flourish, seriousness
High-Frequency Words: stood, room, thought, picture, remember
Phonics Target: Compound words (popcorn, flashlight); Vowel Digraphs ue, ui, ew (blue, fruit, flew)
Amazing Words: jealous, relatives, sibling, secret, porridge, collector, flourish, seriousness
High-Frequency Words: stood, room, thought, picture, remember
Phonics Target: Compound words (popcorn, flashlight); Vowel Digraphs ue, ui, ew (blue, fruit, flew)
Comprehension skills: Theme
Comprehension strategy: Story Structure
Comprehension strategy: Story Structure
Genres: Realistic Fiction
Written Expression: Predicate Expander "When" (The sun shines in the afternoon.)
Reading Street Parent Connection:
Written Expression: Predicate Expander "When" (The sun shines in the afternoon.)
Reading Street Parent Connection:
- Unit 3 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 4, Week 5 (fifth column).
Fundations: Unit 11, Week 1 & 2
Students will learn about...
- Vowel-consonant-e syllable in one-syllable words
- Long vowel sounds
- Trick Words: friend, other, another, none, nothing
- Unit Story: Jake the Whale
Math in Focus
Chapter 13
Addition and Subtraction to 40
Pre-requisite skills: Adding by making a 10, Adding and subtracting by grouping into 10s/1s, Relate addition and subtraction facts
Thinking Skills
- Analyzing parts and whole
Problem Solving Strategies
- Use a diagram/model
- Work backward
Objectives
- Add a two-digit number and a one-digit number with/without regrouping
- Add 2 two-digit numbers with/without regrouping
Thinking Skills
- Analyzing parts and whole
Problem Solving Strategies
- Use a diagram/model
- Work backward
Objectives
- Add a two-digit number and a one-digit number with/without regrouping
- Add 2 two-digit numbers with/without regrouping
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Science
Backyard Growers Enrichment
Last week students learned all about composting and vermiculture. This week we will learn about plant parts and the different parts that we eat.
Last week students learned all about composting and vermiculture. This week we will learn about plant parts and the different parts that we eat.
Social Studies
We will be finishing our National Symbols Unit packet this week.Second Steps- Last week we learned how to invite students into join activities using the four problem-solving steps (S-Say the problem. T-Think of solutions, E-Explore consequences, and P- Pick the best solution). This week we will be discussing how to handle name calling.
Specialists
MONDAY: Music; Library
TUESDAY: P.E.
WEDNESDAY: Music
THURSDAY: P.E.; Backyard Growers
FRIDAY: Art; Music
Writing Workshop
"When I Grow Up" Class Book
Students have finished their four square and the four facts about the career they chose. The next step is putting these facts into five sentences explaining why students want to be the profession they chose when they grow up. After students finish their sentences, I will conference with them and then they will be given the rough draft paper to put the sentences into a complete paragraph. Once I conference with students who have completed the rough draft, students will copy their piece on their designated page of the book as well as draw & color their illustration.
"When I Grow Up" Class Book
Students have finished their four square and the four facts about the career they chose. The next step is putting these facts into five sentences explaining why students want to be the profession they chose when they grow up. After students finish their sentences, I will conference with them and then they will be given the rough draft paper to put the sentences into a complete paragraph. Once I conference with students who have completed the rough draft, students will copy their piece on their designated page of the book as well as draw & color their illustration.
1. Our library time is Mondays at 1 p.m. Please have books brought back to school by the Friday before or Monday morning.
2. Reading passages are due on Thursday. Reading Street Word Lists are due on Friday.
3. Scholastic book order- A spring catalog will go home today. Please return orders and money by Friday, April 5th.
4. "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. If you have not signed and returned your child's report card envelope, please return it as soon as possible. Thank you!
6. Class Book: I sent home a handout today about purchasing one of the hard covered class books we will be publishing. Please send me an email or note in your child's folder if you would like to purchase one. Once I receive your note or email, I will send home an order form. Please return the order form by Wednesday, April 11th.
7. Wish List: paper towels, wet wipes, and tissues.
Have a fantastic first week of April!
Miss Biggar
Homework for the Week
Daily
Reading Words (Phonics/Sight)
Reading Log (with discussion questions)
Number/Letter Formation
Number/Letter Formation
Math Number Sense Games
Coin Games
Coin Games
This week's homework:
Reading Log (due on Friday)
Zero the Hero Math Game (Wk 1) (due on Friday) [Sent home on Tuesday]
Dialogue Journal (due on Friday) [Sent home on Wednesday]
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