Good Afternoon First Grade Families!
Yet another beautiful winter weekend to rest up, enjoy the outdoors or read a good book :)
*Reminder: 1/2 day on Friday January 22! Dismissal begins at 11:15 for pick-up.
Looking forward to another fun week of learning and growing in 1st grade! Please keep up the reading and practicing sight words at home. I am seeing some great things happening in the classroom. Being in school makes a difference, but the help from home is also making a difference. Report Cards go home on Monday, February 1.
Curriculum News
Language Arts:
Story: Frog and Toad Together: The Garden ~
Genre: Animal Fantasy
Question: What changes happen in the garden?
Comprehension Strategy: Plot and Visualize
Phonics: -r controlled, endings -ed and -ing
Words to Read and Spell:
asked, called, helped, jogged, planned, again, garden, how, read, soon, when, come
Math
Strategy: Making a ten when one addend is 8. Ex. 8+7 could be changed to to 10+5.
Skill: Finding 10 more, 10 less, 1 more and 1 less from any number up to 100.
Writing
We are still working on writing a persuasive piece; using three good reasons to convince others of our opinion!
We are continuing our work with writing complete sentences and using appropriate punctuation.
Social Studies
Is it Ever Okay to Break a Rule?
Students will be able to Identify situations in which people act as good citizens in emergency scenarios or when a rule or law is unfair etc. .
See you tomorrow :)
Lisa Vanden Berg
Yet another beautiful winter weekend to rest up, enjoy the outdoors or read a good book :)
*Reminder: 1/2 day on Friday January 22! Dismissal begins at 11:15 for pick-up.
Looking forward to another fun week of learning and growing in 1st grade! Please keep up the reading and practicing sight words at home. I am seeing some great things happening in the classroom. Being in school makes a difference, but the help from home is also making a difference. Report Cards go home on Monday, February 1.
Curriculum News
Language Arts:
Story: Frog and Toad Together: The Garden ~
Genre: Animal Fantasy
Question: What changes happen in the garden?
Comprehension Strategy: Plot and Visualize
Phonics: -r controlled, endings -ed and -ing
Words to Read and Spell:
asked, called, helped, jogged, planned, again, garden, how, read, soon, when, come
Math
Strategy: Making a ten when one addend is 8. Ex. 8+7 could be changed to to 10+5.
Skill: Finding 10 more, 10 less, 1 more and 1 less from any number up to 100.
Writing
We are still working on writing a persuasive piece; using three good reasons to convince others of our opinion!
We are continuing our work with writing complete sentences and using appropriate punctuation.
Social Studies
Is it Ever Okay to Break a Rule?
Students will be able to Identify situations in which people act as good citizens in emergency scenarios or when a rule or law is unfair etc. .
See you tomorrow :)
Lisa Vanden Berg