Pictures of our friends from home!

Yara with her family and celebrating her birthday! :)

Elaina making paper mâché bowls! :)

Zach having fun outside! :) 

Santino and his siblings doing art, science, and math with Cheetos!  :)

Madelyn making her dad's birthday cake, and her and her brother creating with shaving cream and watercolors! :)

Luke and his sister doing some math! :) 

***If you want pictures of your child on the blog so their friends can see, please email or send them on the remind app!! :) 

Playing 'Polar Plunge' to work on 10 more and 10 less

Working with Tiny Tens Frames

Week of 3/9/20

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: 

REVIEW WEEK – No New Words This Week

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 an index card and drop it in the bucket 😊

·    **The week of March 9th- 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 13th- 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 any time 😊

·    ** March 23^rd – March 27^th  : Spring break

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)