Monday, February 27, 2017
Week 27
This is what our fabulous first graders are learning this week:
Math:Our new unit will focus on measuring with standard and non-standard units.
IXL:
Graphing: 0.1-4
Fractions: X.1-9
Measuring: P.2-5
Place Values: M
Phonics: This week the students will identify a singular word from a plural one by adding -s, -es, and change -y to -i and add -es.
Core Knowledge: We will be continuing our unit on The Changing Earth. Our focus will be on dinosaurs, Our study guide review will be sent home Tuesday and the test will be on Friday.
Writing: We will be continuing the unit of opinion writing. This week they will be taking more of the reigns, and will start forming their own opinions, and reasons into sentences.
Interactive Read Aloud: This week students will finish reading multiple Fairy tales and identifying the parts a Fairy tale includes: royalty, magic, good vs evil, magical characters, and what lesson is learned.
March Core Virtue: Compassion
As always, if you have any questions or concerns please email your child's classroom teacher.
Have a great week!
Thursday, February 23, 2017
Math: This week we are learning about 3D shapes. We will be talking about what vertices, edges, and faces are on a 3d shape. We will also be breaking apart 3d shapes by their faces. For example a cube has 6 equal squares.
Phonics; This week we are honing in on would and are contractions. We focus on them being able to make a contraction, read a contraction, and understand that the meaning of the words do not change, even though it is a different work.
Core Knowledge: This week we are beginning a new unit about geology. We will be discussing how rocks are formed, and what rocks can tell us about the Earth.
Writing: We are continuing our opinion writing this week, and will be starting to put our own opinions down on paper. We have been discussing what an opinion vs fact is, and how we can come up with a reason we might hold that opinion.
IRA: This week we are focusing in on character traits. How can we describe a character? Is he/she nice, loving, caring, kind, mean polite, etc. We want them to be seeing and pulling this evidence from the text, and giving examples of why they think that character has a certain trait.
January Core Virtue: Courage
As always, if you have any questions please email your child's classroom teacher.
Phonics; This week we are honing in on would and are contractions. We focus on them being able to make a contraction, read a contraction, and understand that the meaning of the words do not change, even though it is a different work.
Core Knowledge: This week we are beginning a new unit about geology. We will be discussing how rocks are formed, and what rocks can tell us about the Earth.
Writing: We are continuing our opinion writing this week, and will be starting to put our own opinions down on paper. We have been discussing what an opinion vs fact is, and how we can come up with a reason we might hold that opinion.
IRA: This week we are focusing in on character traits. How can we describe a character? Is he/she nice, loving, caring, kind, mean polite, etc. We want them to be seeing and pulling this evidence from the text, and giving examples of why they think that character has a certain trait.
January Core Virtue: Courage
As always, if you have any questions please email your child's classroom teacher.
Important Unexpected Early Release Information
It is extremely important that you are aware of the plan you put in place for your child(ren) at the start of the school year, bus or carline (Clubhouse will NOT be available), should we need to send students home early. If you need to confirm or change your plan on record please contact the office today. Thank you!
We respectfully request that you use the communications methods listed for information and announcements regarding weather related school closings and avoid phoning the school office during inclement weather or announced early releases unless it is absolutely necessary.
We respectfully request that you use the communications methods listed for information and announcements regarding weather related school closings and avoid phoning the school office during inclement weather or announced early releases unless it is absolutely necessary.
Sunday, February 5, 2017
Week 23
Math: We are continuing to learn about the different types of graphs. (Bar, tally, and pictographs) Your child will be creating and analyzing these graphs for different types of information, and continuing to learn the importance of graphing as a skill.
IXL: Please continue to have your child work on IXL at home.
M:1-M:2 Graphing
O:1 Place Value
M:1-M:2 Graphing
O:1 Place Value
Phonics: Students will be learning about the contractions that end with -n't. For example, many students read can't as cannot. They will be working on reading, and writing them in their different forms.
Core Knowledge: Our CK unit is Astronomy. This week we are getting into more specific knowledge of the moon and stars. We will be talking about what they are made of and what their function is within our universe.
IRA: Our theme this month is character traits. We will be talking about attributes we could give a character, ie. kind, curious, honest, friendly, etc. The book also have a theme of snow, and will be including stories that are about snow or activities you can do in it.
Writing: We are starting our opinion writing. This week we are beginning to write opinion pieces, and talking about how to use a sentence starter to make a sentence. We will also be talking about how to create a sentence to display their thinking, and convince the reader of their opinion.
January Core Virtue: Courage
As always, if you have any questions please email your child's classroom teacher.
Important Unexpected Early Release Information
It is extremely important that you are aware of the plan you put in place for your child(ren) at the start of the school year, bus or carline (Clubhouse will NOT be available), should we need to send students home early. If you need to confirm or change your plan on record please contact the office today. Thank you!
We respectfully request that you use the communications methods listed for information and announcements regarding weather related school closings and avoid phoning the school office during inclement weather or announced early releases unless it is absolutely necessary.
We respectfully request that you use the communications methods listed for information and announcements regarding weather related school closings and avoid phoning the school office during inclement weather or announced early releases unless it is absolutely necessary.
February News
February 6th
100th Day
February 10th
Valentine's Day Party at 2:00
February 16th
Conferences at 4:00
February 20th
NO SCHOOL
February 21st
Conferences at 4:00
February 24th
OSA at 2:00
College T-shirt
February 6th
100th Day
February 10th
Valentine's Day Party at 2:00
February 16th
Conferences at 4:00
February 20th
NO SCHOOL
February 21st
Conferences at 4:00
February 24th
OSA at 2:00
College T-shirt
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