First Grade Weekly Updates
May 22-26
Welcome to this week's edition of First Grade Weekly Explorations! Each week, we will share materials to supplement our lessons for the week. The newsletter includes videos and links for all subject areas: ELA, math, Science and Social Studies. As work is completed, make sure to sent pictures to your teacher, through Class Dojo or Schoology.
Reading
Journeys
*What Can You Do?
*Zin, Zin, Zin a Violin
*Mice Squeak, We Speak
Comprehension:
*Analyze/Evaluate
*Author's Purpose
Sight Words
- always
- happy
- once
- different
- high
- stories
- enough
- near
Spelling
- hard
- harder
- hardest
- fast
- faster
- fastest
- slow
- slower
- slowest
- sooner
Activities for Spelling Words
Tuesday-Put each word in a sentence.
Wednesday-Make up your own story using all the words.
Thursday-Use objects at home to make each word. Some examples of things to use are Legos, beads, string, play dough, or whatever you can come up with. Be creative and take a picture to send to your teacher.
Friday-Write each word with a different color crayon, or marker. Then take a spelling test. Ask an adult or older sibling to say the word and you spell it.
What Can You Do?
Author's Purpose
Math
Module 6: Lesson 11-16
Lesson 11 - https://youtu.be/v0IjWL2RTDA, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ePamF57xXQ
Lesson 12 - https://youtu.be/IILONgc0IoA, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6mZxZ03nwE
Lesson 13 - https://youtu.be/-UvyJgsBsRk, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lcoEKbnQ7s
Lesson 14 - https://youtu.be/WFHC_dequ7E, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymxicnyn3mw
Lesson 15 - https://youtu.be/SXPadI0ERCk, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDRkQ1FMU3c
Lesson 16 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBwKJLEa-Fg
Think Tank Problems
Inquiry - How We Express Ourselves
Good Vibrations
Lines of Inquiry:
- Sound and light waves impact the way we live.
- There are many forms of communication.
- Everyday exchanges connect the world.
Essential Question: How is light created?
Topic 2 - Light
Anchor Texts
*All About Light by Lisa Trumbauer
*What are Light Waves by Robin Johnson
myOn ebooks
Vocabulary
shadow - the dark shade made when something blocks light.
light wave - a ray of energy you can see with your eyes.
natural light - light created from the sun or other resources found in nature.
artificial light - light created by humans.
Contact Us
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