Spirit Week Activities

*Your student may bring in any favorite Dr. Seuss book!
The Week of: March 2nd

Monday Fox in Socks – Wear your crazy socks

Tuesday The Cat in the Hat – Wear a hat

Wednesday Wacky Wednesday – Wear mismatched clothes

Thursday I Am NOT Going to Get Up Today! – PJ DAY!

Friday The Lorax – Wear a mustache and/or Lorax colors

For the week of March 2nd

What We’re Learning This Week:

Reading: The students will be reading two passages this week, “Jake and Anna” and “Tess the Turtle.”  We will focus on asking and answering questions about key details in a story, as well as, naming the character, setting and major events (problem/solution) in the stories. As always, we will be reading poetry for fluency and expression practice.

*Please continue to read your child’s book-in-a-bag nightly with them. Please have them bring this back daily to school.  

Writing:  The first graders will begin to finish their informational writing unit and celebrate all the writing they have done this quarter!  During this unit, each child wrote information books about lots of different topics and revisited his or her writing to self-assess and revise (they named a topic, gave facts, and provided a sense of closure).

Word Study/Spelling: 

Read and Write Words: eat, each, from, give

Feature/Pattern of the week: REVIEW short vowels (ex: best, raft, stop, trap)

Grammar: Review common, proper, and possessive nouns; singular and plural nouns with matching verbs

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.  We are focusing on solving number sentences with missing addends and subtrahends (ex: 12 - __ = 7, 8 + __ = 13).

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

Extras:

·         First Grade Conference Night (if one was scheduled)- March 18^th

·         March 13^th- End of third grading period

·         March 23^rd - 27^th: Spring Break (back on March 30^th)

Week of February 24th

What We’re Learning This Week: 

Reading: We will be reading the books, “Snowflake Bentley” and “Goodbye Snow.” Students will ask and answer questions about key details in the story. They will identify characters, setting, and major events of the story in order.

Writing: We are continuing our non-fiction writing unit.  We will continue to review non-fiction books and discuss how they teach us about topics. Students are working on writing facts/information about a topic. After planning their writing using a table of contents, students write an introduction, 2-3 detailed chapters, and a conclusion. We have really been focusing on adding details to really teach our readers, as well as adding text features such as labels and captions.

Word Study/Spelling:
• Sort 34- Short Vowel Words with final  Blends. Ex: just, soft, fast, desk

-Read/Write words: what, didn’t, don’t

Phonics: -final blends

Grammar:
• Review common, proper and possessive nouns; using singular and plural nouns with matching verbs.

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. At the end of first grade, students will need to solve 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. We will continue to work on fact families.

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

Extras:

-Please make sure you are checking your child’s take home folder.

-Snacks should be nut free.

-Please return conference sheet with signature

-Book Fair (Week of the 24^th)

Valentine's Day Party

Reading our Valentines!

Week of February 18th

What We’re Learning This Week:  

Reading: “Melting and Freezing”  (Non Fiction)
Students will be working on text features in non-fiction books.  We will also focus on summarizing main ideas in informational books. We’ll be continuing guided reading and Daily 5/centers.   Please keep in mind, depending on the guided reading schedule each day, your child may not bring home a NEW book to read every day. As always, we’ll be reading poetry weekly for fluency and expression practice.

Writing: We are continuing our non-fiction writing unit.  We will continue to review non-fiction books and discuss how they teach us about topics. Students are working on writing facts/information about a topic. After planning their writing using a table of contents, students write an introduction, 2-3 detailed chapters, and a conclusion. We have really been focusing on adding details to really teach our readers, as well as adding text features such as labels and captions.

Word Study/Spelling:
-Pattern of the week: short vowel words (a, e, i, o, u) with beginning blends

-Read and write words: then, them, was

Phonics: final blends

Grammar:
• Determiners (few, several, many)

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. At the end of first grade, students will need to solve 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. We will will focus on fact families this week (3+5=8, 5+3=8, 8-3=5, 8-5=3). 

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

Extras:

-Please make sure you are checking your child’s take home folder.

-Snacks should be nut free.

- Feb. 17^th – No school: President’s Day

Week of February 10th

What We’re Learning This Week:  

Reading: “Childhood Stories of George Washington”  (Non Fiction)
Students will be working on asking and answering questions about key details in a text.  We will also read a passage about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln to describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text. We’ll be continuing guided reading and Daily 5/centers.   Please keep in mind, depending on the guided reading schedule each day, your child may not bring home a NEW book to read every day. As always, we’ll be reading poetry weekly for fluency and expression practice.

Writing: We are continuing our non-fiction writing unit.  We will continue to review non-fiction books and discuss how they teach us about topics. Students are working on writing facts/information about a topic. After planning their writing using a table of contents, students write an introduction, 2-3 detailed chapters, and a conclusion. We have really been focusing on adding details to really teach our readers, as well as adding text features such as labels and captions.

Word Study/Spelling:
• Review Week - No new patterns or read/write words

Phonics: -ill, -ell, -all ; inflected endings

Grammar:
• Introduce determiners

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. At the end of first grade, students will need to solve 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. We will continue to work on story problems, focusing on giving the correct number sentence with missing numbers in all positions, and then solving the number sentence.  We will also use our place value dice to record numbers, focusing on tens and ones, and even hundreds.

3rd grading period Science and Social Studies:
Science: Living and Non-Living Things (gummy worms and mealworms)
Social Studies: Geography/Places and Regions

Extras:

-Please make sure you are checking your child’s take home folder.

-Snacks should be nut free.

-Valentine’s Day parties- February 12^th  : student names were sent home so the kids can fill out their valentines. The kids will decorate bags in school to put their valentines in.

- Feb. 13^th- No school : Professional Development day for teachers

- Feb. 14th - No school

- Feb. 17^th – No school : President’s Day