Good afternoon First Grade Families,
Looking forward to the week ahead! Obviously the thing we are most looking forward to is our long-awaited trip to John Ball Zoo! Although the current weather forecast is not looking the greatest, I am still hopeful the day will be awesome! Please dress for the weather...especially practical footwear and light layers to help cope with the wetness and variable temperatures (the zoo path is on a slight uphill grade...most of the time :).
CURRICULUM NEWS
Language Arts Unit 5 Great Ideas Week 6
Story: Benjamin Franklin ~
Genre: Biography
Comprehension Strategy: Order of Events and Prior Knowledge
Phonics: prefixes -re and -un
*Words to read and spell:
reopen, unhappy, refill, unkind, retell, untie, warm, better, which, brother, long, much
Writing: Autobiographies and Biographies
- We finished our informational/nonfiction writing unit last week. A book about construction went home last week. I encouraged them to share it with you. This was something that we worked on together. The class shared ideas and we wrote those sentences together. They also did some pages independently.
- This week we will continue learning about how people write about people.
timelines, photo records and personal contributions of the subject
Math
- Learning about Time
- Addition and Subtraction Fact Fluency within 10
- Place Value
Science: Animal Superpowers
- Field Trip to John Ball Zoo
Also, please get in touch if you have any questions or concerns about the end of the year, your child's progress in a specific area or any known changes for next year (moving etc.). It takes teamwork to do school and I appreciate everyone of you. This has been an amazing school year, bringing it to a close is going to be so full of love!
Lisa Vanden Berg
Looking forward to the week ahead! Obviously the thing we are most looking forward to is our long-awaited trip to John Ball Zoo! Although the current weather forecast is not looking the greatest, I am still hopeful the day will be awesome! Please dress for the weather...especially practical footwear and light layers to help cope with the wetness and variable temperatures (the zoo path is on a slight uphill grade...most of the time :).
CURRICULUM NEWS
Language Arts Unit 5 Great Ideas Week 6
Story: Benjamin Franklin ~
Genre: Biography
Comprehension Strategy: Order of Events and Prior Knowledge
Phonics: prefixes -re and -un
*Words to read and spell:
reopen, unhappy, refill, unkind, retell, untie, warm, better, which, brother, long, much
Writing: Autobiographies and Biographies
- We finished our informational/nonfiction writing unit last week. A book about construction went home last week. I encouraged them to share it with you. This was something that we worked on together. The class shared ideas and we wrote those sentences together. They also did some pages independently.
- This week we will continue learning about how people write about people.
timelines, photo records and personal contributions of the subject
Math
- Learning about Time
- Addition and Subtraction Fact Fluency within 10
- Place Value
Science: Animal Superpowers
- Field Trip to John Ball Zoo
Also, please get in touch if you have any questions or concerns about the end of the year, your child's progress in a specific area or any known changes for next year (moving etc.). It takes teamwork to do school and I appreciate everyone of you. This has been an amazing school year, bringing it to a close is going to be so full of love!
Lisa Vanden Berg