Week 27
Here’s what our first graders are learning this week: March 7-11th
Interactive Read Aloud: Animal Fantasy Stories: Animals act like human and show human characteristics. Stories that will help us in this genre this week are Koala Lou, Too Many Pears, Marsupial Sue, and Petunia.
Grammar/Phonics: Prepositions: Words that indicate location. (on, above, beside, behind...) We continue to review adjectives, verbs, and pronouns.
Writing: We continue studying Laura Numeroff, who is the author of the "If you give a Mouse a Cookie" series. Students will study her stories and writing style, then create their own versions using Laura Numeroff's writing style.
Math: This week students will be leaning about Time. Students will be able to write and tell time to the hour and to the half hour. We will also introduce the quarter hour and three quarter hour concept.
IXL:If you would like to use IXL at home, we recommend these sections for practice this week:
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Data and Graphs (Section M)
Geometry (Section K)
Measurement (Section N)
Time (Section S)
Measurement (Section N)
Time (Section S)
Core Knowledge: Our new Core knowledge unit will be Animals and Habitats. This domain will introduce the students to the connection of all living things with their physical environment and each other. Students will learn what a habitat is, what the different habitats we find on our planet are, what plants and animals live there, as well as what adaptations they make for survival. They will learn about a food chain, a food web as well as discuss endangered animals and what can be done to stop this from happening. Habitats we will talk about are arctic ocean, tundra, desert, grassland, temperate deciduous forest, topical rainforest, and freshwater.
Core Virtue: Compassion: sympathy, care or concern for the feelings of others.
