Week of October 25th-October 29th

 

First Grade Newsletter

October 25th-October 29th

Literacy

Reading Street: Unit 1 Week 4

Main selection:  Fox and a Kit

Weekly Question:  How do wild animals take care of their babies?
Amazing Words: observe, wild, parent, canopy, screech, million, native, reserve
High-Frequency Words: eat, five, four, her, this, too
Phonics Target: Inflected Endings -s and -ing

Comprehension skills:  Main idea and Details
Comprehension strategy: Important Details

Genres:  Literary Nonfiction

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 4 (fourth column only). Practice the words in column 1, 2 and 3 that have a dot/star/dash next to them. These are the words your child struggled to read. 

PHONICS

Spelling 

• Skill(s): Use digraphs (sh, wh, th, ch)
• Tapping out sounds in words with CVC patterns (Consonant, Vowel, Consonant; such as 'cat') 
• Trick Words: as, has, in, into
• Review trick words and practice using in writing: the, of, and, a, is, his

**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 represent the phases of the Moon using Oreos. Each student will be paired up with a partner to complete this activity. After each group has completed their Moon phase page, the class will enjoy a sweet treat. 

Social Studies

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 "How do wild animals take care of their babies?".

In Second Steps, students will continue to learn the 4 Skills for Learning. This week, students will learn how to be assertive when learning. I encourage the students to use the skills that they have learned about throughout their day and find the strategy that works best for them. Last week students learned how to be a bucket filler and shared with their classmates different things that fill their buckets (compliments, acts of kindness, safe words and actions, etc.). They also learned the difference between tattling and reporting. We recited our Tattle Battle Pledge every morning after we recite our classroom rules.

Specialists

MONDAY: P.E.

TUESDAY: Art

WEDNESDAY: Music

THURSDAY: P.E.

FRIDAY: Art

Writing Workshop

This week students continue the morning work assignment that requires students to about one activity that they did over the weekend, including who was there, where the event took place, and how did the child feel about this event (favorite/worst part, sad, excited, etc.)The purpose of this exercise is for students to practice putting their ideas on paper through words and illustrations.

Genre Writing-Narrative

     This week they will continue to write and I will conference with each student to help him/her continue their story.

Spooky Sentences

     This week students will brainstorm about nouns (subjects) and verbs (predicates) that have to do with Halloween. Once the class comes up with a list of nouns and verbs, students will practice writing sentences using these parts of a sentence focusing on uppercases to begin a sentence, appropriate punctuation, spacing, and on-topic sentences.

                  
Parent Reminders

1.  There is an early release on Thursday, October 28 at noontime. Please send any dismissal changes to Ms. Lane in the front office because I will not be in school.

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 Delay: I apologize for the September Scholastic catalog order delay. Due to the nature of these delays, I will be sending out the holiday catalogs this week. All holiday 

5. Fall Parent Conferences- Thank you to all of the families that I met with last week for conferences. If you have not scheduled a parent-teacher conference with me yet, please email or message me on Bloomz to give me a time that you can make.

6. Math Homework- For math homework this week, please watch the "Cluster Cards 4" and "Cluster Cards 5" videos.

7. Monday Library Time- Our class has library time on Mondays at 2PM. Please make sure your child has their book in their backpack on Monday morning to return in the afternoon. If a student does not return their book on Monday, s/he will have to wait to take another book out the following week.

 

Happy Halloween! 

Have a spook-tacular 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, write a letter in their journal, and watch the Cluster Card 4 & Cluster Card 5 math videos that will be posted on Bloomz.

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. If I did not receive your child's journal last week, please have your child write a letter to me this week and I will check both letters once the journal is turned in. 

Behind the reading log, there is our word lists for the next 6 weeks. Please practice the marked column words in Column 1,2, & 3 and all of the words on the fourth 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.)