June 3rd-June 7th Newsletter

First Grade Newsletter

June 3rd-June 7th

Literacy

Reading Street: Unit 5 Week 6

Main selection: The Stone Garden

Weekly Question:  What can happen when someone has a new idea?
Amazing Words: accomplish, doubt, original, glider, (un)manned, soar, exclaim
High-Frequency Words: answered, carried, different, poor
Phonics Target: Prefixes: un-, re-  (undo, remove); long o & i (gold; wild)

Comprehension skills: Theme
Comprehension strategy: Inferring

Genres: Realistic Fiction
Written Expression: Predicate Expander "What/Whom" (She brushes my hair.)
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 6 (sixth column). 

Fundations: Unit 13, Week 2 & 3

Students will learn about...

• Adding -es ending to words with digraphs and blends (i.e. lunches, brushes)
• Trick Words: look, good, new

Math in Focus

Chapter 17: Addition and Subtraction within 100
Prerequisite Skills: Making tens and ones, adding tens and ones with regrouping, subtracting tens and ones

Thinking Skills
- Deduction
- Identifying patterns and relationships

Problem Solving Strategies  
                                            - Simplify the problem
                                            - Guess and check

           Objectives
- Add a 2-digit number and a 1-digit number without regrouping.
- Add two 2-digit numbers without regrouping.
- Subtract a 1-digit number from a 2-digit number without regrouping.
- Subtract two 2-digit numbers without regrouping.

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Science

Patterns in the Sky
The Moon & Stars
     Last week students will learn about the facts and figures of the moon and learned about the stars. 
Life Science
Birds of a Feather Flock Together
Students week students brainstormed ideas about the essential questions for this unit, "What do we know about birds?", "What birds to do we know?", and "What details do we know about them?". This week students will learn about the different external parts of a bird and discuss the different types of beaks.
     

Social Studies

Quality & Traits Unit
This week the students will begin sharing their famous American reports with the rest of the class.

 Specialists

MONDAY: Music

TUESDAY: P.E.

WEDNESDAY: Music; Backyard Growers

THURSDAY: P.E.

FRIDAY: Art; Music

Writing Workshop

     Our next writing piece will be an informative piece. The students will be writing a letter to their future 2nd grade teacher. This week we will be brainstorming and beginning to write our final letters.

     

                   Parent Reminders

1. This week is the last week that our class will go to the library and check out books. All library books need to be returned by Friday, June 14th. 
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!
4. 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!
5. American Symbols Play- If you child received play lines, please practice these lines everyday. Role playing by being the other characters in your child's scene will help students practice their lines. By the time the play comes, we would like these lines to be memorized. Your child's lines are highlighted in yellow and your child's part in the play is in the top right corner.
6. Scholastic Book Club June catalogs went home last week on Wednesday, May 29th. Orders are due this Wednesday, June 5th, so books come in before summer break. 
7. End of the Year Assessments- Our End of the Year Reading Street test will be given this week on Friday, June 7th. It assesses all reading skills taught this school year. 
8. End of Year Homework- I will be eliminating homework as we continue to move towards the end of the year. This week will be the last week for our reading passages and dialogue journal. please respond to my final letter and send your child's journal back in. This week play the Race to 25 game to practice working with coins. Next week I will send the recording sheet home to be completed. 

Have a wonderful week! 

Miss Biggar

Homework for the Week

 Daily

Reading Words (Phonics/Sight)
Reading Street Reading Word List

Reading Log (with discussion questions)
Number/Letter Formation
Addition Math Facts to 10 (ALL)

Math Number Sense Games
Coin Games
Sight Word Reading & Spelling

American Symbols Songs 
American Symbols Lines (if given)

This week's homework:

 Reading Log (due on Friday)
Money Game (Daily) [Sent home on Tuesday]

 Dialogue Journal (due on Friday) [Sent home on Wednesday]