I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving Break!

Dec. 5th- Progress Reports Posted

Dec. 13th- 1st Grade Program 9:00 & 6:00 @ Justiss

Dec. 16th- 2nd 9 weeks ends

Dec. 19th- Jan. 2nd- Christmas Break

Jan. 3rd- Students Return From Break

Thank you for your help and support as we work together to create strong readers!

We are learning about synthesizing information. This unit bundles student expectations that continue to expand students’ repertoire of comprehension strategies with an emphasis on evaluating details to determine their importance and on synthesizing ideas and details within and across texts.

Synthesizing is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle. Readers collect different pieces of information and connect them to form a new idea, perspective, or insight. These ideas can be molded and changed as new information is added. Many times synthesis requires a blend of comprehension strategies used by readers

This week we are focusing on the words: back, big

We are identifying verbs, nouns, and adjectives.

We are beginning to explore how to write a story with a beginning, middle, and an end.

Unit 6- Foundations of Numbers to 99

Students will use objects, pictures, and standard and expanded forms to represent numbers Students will order whole numbers up to 99 using place value blocks and open number lines.

Students will represent the comparison of two numbers up to 99 using <, >, =