our Hello First Grade Families,
I hope you are enjoying this beautiful winter weekend. We had a pretty good week in 1st grade classroom. We are wrapping up some of our learning Units in Writing, Language Arts and Social Studies. We will soon be moving on to new things! I will share the results of these assessments and go over your child's 1st semester report card at our upcoming spring conferences.
Reminders:
Thursday, February 10: Valentine's Day Party at school
February 11-14: Winter Break; NO school
March 1 and 3: Parent Teacher Conferences. Information about scheduling is coming soon! For your planning purposes, it looks as if there may be an In-Person option in addition to the previously planned Zoom conferences for this semester. More information about this is also coming soon.
CURRICULUM NEWS
Language Arts * Review and Assessment of Unit 3 concepts*
Comprehension Strategies:
-Prior Knowledge
-Draw Conclusions
-Plot and Summarize
-Theme
-Compare and Contrast
**Words to Read and Spell: (-r controlled vowels)
are, germ, barn, hard, car, door, learn, far, more, sure, turn, jar
Phonics: (-dge = j) (er, ir, ur, ar, or), (contractions), (adding, -ed, -ing), (-ng, -nk), (compound words) and (y= -i and -e)
Writing
- Strategies for writing neatly at all times
- Finishing our Unit on Opinion Writing
- Strategies to spell most words correctly in a complete sentence
- Use grade level grammar and conventions in all student work
Math
-Adding and Subtracting within 20
-Solving 'situation' word problems with sums to 20. Students will need to choose the operation needed, to solve these correctly.
-Understanding which 2-digit number is greater based on knowledge of PlaceValue (Ex. 65 > 56 6 tens is more than 5 tens)
Social Studies Unit 3 How Do We Learn About Places?
Lesson 1:
- Absolute Location
- Knowing the parts of an address
- Using maps to find a location
Science
- Seasonal Observations (what are the animals doing?)
- Daylight throughout the Year
Looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow,
Lisa Vanden Berg
I hope you are enjoying this beautiful winter weekend. We had a pretty good week in 1st grade classroom. We are wrapping up some of our learning Units in Writing, Language Arts and Social Studies. We will soon be moving on to new things! I will share the results of these assessments and go over your child's 1st semester report card at our upcoming spring conferences.
Reminders:
Thursday, February 10: Valentine's Day Party at school
February 11-14: Winter Break; NO school
March 1 and 3: Parent Teacher Conferences. Information about scheduling is coming soon! For your planning purposes, it looks as if there may be an In-Person option in addition to the previously planned Zoom conferences for this semester. More information about this is also coming soon.
CURRICULUM NEWS
Language Arts * Review and Assessment of Unit 3 concepts*
Comprehension Strategies:
-Prior Knowledge
-Draw Conclusions
-Plot and Summarize
-Theme
-Compare and Contrast
**Words to Read and Spell: (-r controlled vowels)
are, germ, barn, hard, car, door, learn, far, more, sure, turn, jar
Phonics: (-dge = j) (er, ir, ur, ar, or), (contractions), (adding, -ed, -ing), (-ng, -nk), (compound words) and (y= -i and -e)
Writing
- Strategies for writing neatly at all times
- Finishing our Unit on Opinion Writing
- Strategies to spell most words correctly in a complete sentence
- Use grade level grammar and conventions in all student work
Math
-Adding and Subtracting within 20
-Solving 'situation' word problems with sums to 20. Students will need to choose the operation needed, to solve these correctly.
-Understanding which 2-digit number is greater based on knowledge of PlaceValue (Ex. 65 > 56 6 tens is more than 5 tens)
Social Studies Unit 3 How Do We Learn About Places?
Lesson 1:
- Absolute Location
- Knowing the parts of an address
- Using maps to find a location
Science
- Seasonal Observations (what are the animals doing?)
- Daylight throughout the Year
Looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow,
Lisa Vanden Berg