Week of October 11th-October 15th

 

First Grade Newsletter

October 11th-October 15th

Literacy

Reading Street: Unit 1 Week 2

Main selection:  Pig in a Wig

Weekly Question:  Who helps animals?

Amazing Words: career, service, sloppy, scrub, tool, exercise, comfort, search

High-Frequency Words: she, take, up, what

Phonics Target: Short 'i', consonant 'x'/ks/

Comprehension skills:  Plot

Comprehension strategy: Summarize

Genres:  Animal Fantasy

Reading Street Parent Connection:

• Unit 1 Family Talk letter for concept conversation starters and 6 week overview of the unit. (Sent home Oct. 4th) 
• Family Times gives various activities that can be done at home that connect to the concept we're learning this week.
• Practice reading phonics and sight words for Unit 1, Week 2 (second column only). Practice the word in column 1 that have a dot/star/dash next to them. These are the words your child struggled to read. 

PHONICS

Spelling 

• Skill(s): Tapping out sounds in words with CVC patterns (Consonant, Vowel, Consonant; such as 'cat') 
• Trick Words: the, of, and

**Trick words are irregularly spelled words that each child is expected to be able to spell in their writing.**

Lively Letters (Sounds)

• Review stories and sounds for each letter pair: No new pairs
• Last week’s letter pairs: p/b, t/d, k/g, f/v, qu, m/n, s/z, j/ch, r/l, x/y/c, w/h,  a/o, u/i, e, ng, wh


Handwriting Without Tears
• Review all letter formations
• Alphabetical order 

Math in Focus

Chapter 2

Addition and Subtraction within 10

Pre-requisite skills and number sense

Objectives

-  Count from 0 to 10 objects 

-  Read and write 0 to 10 in numbers and words

     -  Compare two sets of objects by using one-to-one correspondence 

      -  Identify the set that has more, fewer, or the same number of object

                                 - Identify the number that is greater than or less than another number

-                                                -  Make number patterns

Science

Space Unit
Patterns in the Sky
     This week students will continue learning about the sun by watching "The Sun" featuring Bill Nye the Science Guy. Each student will collect facts that they hear about the sun, and then will share with the whole class. We will organize our knowledge on a KWL chart for students to see what we knew before the video, what we wanted to know about the sun, and then what we learned while watching.

Social Studies

This week we will continue to engage in friendship-building, cooperative exercises, always emphasizing the importance of friendship, unity, and cooperation. We will continue to talk about the power of our choices using the book What Should Danny Do?. 

Our social studies learning this week is embedded in our reading program. We will be focusing on families and community through our readings.  This week the children will work to answer the question "What do pets need?".

In Second Steps, students learned about the 4 steps to be a good listener (eyes watching, ears listening, bodies still, voices silent) and learned the first Skill for Learning (focusing attention). This week students will practice these skills throughout our day as well as learn the next two Skills for Learning.

Specialists

MONDAY: NO SCHOOL!

TUESDAY: P.E.

WEDNESDAY: Art

THURSDAY: Music

FRIDAY: P.E.

Writing Workshop

This week students continue the morning work assignment that requires students to about one activity that they did over the weekend. The purpose of this exercise is for students to practice putting their ideas on paper through words and illustrations.

Genre Writing-Narrative

     Last week students began writing their first draft of their own stories. This week they will continue to write and I will conference with each student to help him/her continue their story.

Grammar-Sentence Structure (Verbs)

     This week students will continue to participate in noun and verb activities. They will also begin to write sentences using these two parts of a sentence (subject (noun) and predicate (verb)).

                  
Parent Reminders

1.  There is no school on Monday, October 11th.

2.    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.

3.    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.

4.    Scholastic Catalogs: The October catalogs will be sent home today. October orders are due on Friday, October 15th at 12 noontime. (I have not received our September orders yet due to delays in shipping. I will send those books home as soon as they come in.)

5. Fall Parent Conferences (10/21 & 10/28)- Please sign up for a parent conference slot on Sign-Up Genius on our Bloomz account. These signs ups will be for in-person meetings. If you would prefer a Zoom meeting, please email or Bloomz message me. We can set up a time that works for you. I look forward to meeting with you all!

6. Charleston Wrap Fundraiser- The Charleston Fundraiser materials went home last week on Monday, September 27th. All materials are due on Friday, October 15th.

 

Have a great 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, play and record the number name/symbol math game, and watch 2 math videos that will be posted on Bloomz. Fill out the recording sheet after you play the number symbol/name math game. 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. Behind the reading log, there is our word lists for the next 6 weeks. Please practice the marked first column words and all of the words on the second column on the sheet every day this week. I will check in with each child at the end of the week. The homework folder should always be brought to school in your child's backpack, but only returned on Fridays. (Keep completed work in the homework folder. I will take it out on Friday.)