Week of March 11

What We’re Learning This Week:

Reading:  We will be reading “Henry and Mudge : The First Book”.  Students will be working on asking and answering questions about key details in a story. They will also identify the characters and describe how their feelings change in the story.  We will also review major events in the story.  As always, we’ll be reading poetry weekly for fluency and expression practice.

*No Guided Reading this week- I will be completing one on one assessments since this week is the end of the grading period. 

Writing:  The first graders will be finishing the information writing unit.  During this unit, each child wrote information books about lots of different topics and they revisited his or her writing to self-assess and revise (they named a topic, gave facts, and provided a sense of closure).  The children chose one of their best pieces to revise, edit, and publish.  Also, the children have taken, or will be taking, a writing assessment to demonstrate everything they learned about writing an information book.  This is an opportunity for the children to write on their own without support from the teacher. 

Word Study/Spelling: 

Fry Words: Fry Read and Write Words: Review all Fry Words from 3^rd quarter

Feature/Pattern of the week: Review short vowel i and short vowel u

Ex: ship, flick, shut, truck

Phonics: compound words 

Grammar:  Introduce frequently occurring conjunctions (and, but, so, or, because)

Math: Our math lessons each day will include computational fluency, fact fluency, and core math instruction focused on the first grade common core math standards. Computational fluency will help the students to use the most effective and efficient strategies.  Fact Fluency is working with both addition and subtraction facts within 10.  Our end-of-the-year goal is to have students complete 15 addition facts in one minute and 15 subtraction facts in one minute. Our core lessons will include hands-on math activities and games that support the common core.  This week we will continue to focus on adding and subtracting multiples of ten from multiples of ten.  We will also build numbers focusing on tens and ones – then adding the numbers together after building them.  For example, after building 23 and 42, add them together and be able to tell how many total tens and total ones.  Finally, we will do some work with time to the half hour.

3rd grading period Science and Social Studies: Science: Properties of Water
Social Studies:  Geography/Places and Regions

Extras:

·    The children are continuing to fill our bucket with acts of kindness- they are encouraged to write these kind acts of kindness on a piece of paper and drop it in the bucket 😊

·    The week of March 11th- no guided reading this week.  I will be doing one on one checks because this week is the last week of 3rd grading period.

·    March 15th- end of 3rd grading period

·    Week of March 18^th : Conferences – I sent home conference slips.  If I checked that a conference is not needed, and you would still like a conference, please let me know.  I am happy to meet or talk any time 😊

·    March 22nd- report cards come home

·    March 25^th- April 1^st : Spring break