Indian Creek First Grade News
News for March 25th-29th
April Edition of Read Across Indian Creek Coming Soon!
Have you purchased your 2018-19 Yearbook yet?
Thank you to everyone who has already purchased a yearbook! We appreciate your support. There are less than 15 available for pre-sale through Herff-Jones. If you still haven’t purchased one, please visit www.yearbookordercenter.com and enter Order #17636. We cannot guarantee extras at the end of the year so don’t miss out! The last day to order a yearbook with name stamping is April 1, 2019. If you have any questions, please e-mail Mrs. Moore atMooreCA@lisd.net. *Yearbooks will be handed out in May.*
What We Are Learning This Week
Language Arts/Reading/Writing: Poetry is our focus for the next 4 weeks. We promise no Shakespeare...no simple prose fit for children that they can read it. This is a great way to practice fluency and accuracy in reading. We will also be writing poetry as well. We will be work on rhyme, alliteration and rhythm. We will also be checking for understand of prose and making inferences. We will be checking to see if we can draw a conclusion on what the author wanted us to learn from their prose. Students will be asked to write poetic prose in addition to reading poetry. You may want to look at some fun books at home -like Shel Silverstein or Jack Prelutsky.
Poetry is amazing-it can help foster the text fluency, vocabulary growth and comprehension.
Social Studies-As we explore citizenship-look exploring American symbols, mottoes and patriotic customs. We are going to start with symbols this week. The Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore, The White House, The Liberty Bell. We will start a project base learning opportunity with the students.
Spelling/Words Their Way:
We will have a new list of sight words coming home on Monday. The words for List 26 are buy, done, full, those, warm. We will test on FRIDAY. Please review last weeks words. We will be working on recall and review of all the list from 1 to 25. Your child should be able to read and spell over 100 of the word on the lists. There is always room for more vocabulary and word knowledge growth.
Word Their Way sorts will be coming home on Monday.
Our Silver Group is working on a picture sort for word starting with letters L, K, J and W
Our White Group is working on digraphs pr, fr, dr and br
Our Black Group is working on ending rimes- -ash, -ish, -ush
Our Blue Group is working on vowel clusters- ur, ure, ur-e
The Black and Blue groups will be tested on writing 10 words from the sort. Please practice writing the sorts at home, as well as moving the pieces. Student must perform their very best at both parts- the sort and written test.
Math:For the next few weeks we will be working on a unit of measurement. This week we will be learning how to tell time to the hour and the half hour. In the following weeks, we will be measuring with a variety of units such as inch tiles, cubes, paper clips, and cut outs of different-sized feet. We will be investigate the idea that different-sized units result in different measurements.
Science: We will be continuing our unit on the characteristics and needs of plants and animals. In this unit we will be studying and investigation the difference between living and non-living things based on their basic needs and ability to produce offspring. We will investigate how the characteristics of an animal are related to where it lives, how it moves and what it eats. We will also be learning how to identify and compare parts of plants.
Month at a Glance/Upcoming Events
*For more information about upcoming events be sure to watch for Mrs. Teddy's Falcon Forecast and The Word with Mrs. Whitehouse.
April 4-Read Across ICE/Monthly Readers
April 8-11 STAAR Testing-CLOSED CAMPUS no visitors are allowed
April 12-Field Day (we will be needing volunteers to help on the field)
April 16 - Volunteer breakfast
April 19-School Holiday -Good Friday
April 22-Bad Weather Day/Building Closed
April 29-May 3rd Last Book Fair BOGO-stock up on Summer Reading
Teacher Contact Information
Mrs. McDuffie
Office 469-713-5180
E-mail: McDuffieT@LISD.net
Team Lead
Mrs. Bermudez
Office 469-713-5180
E-mail: BermudezC@LISD.net
Mrs. Cambere
Office 469-713-5180
Email: Camberek@LISD.net
Mrs. Freedenberg
Office 469-713-5180
E-mail: Freedenbergr@LISD.net
Indian Creek Elementary
2050 Arbor Creek, Carrollton, TX 75010
phone number 469-713-5180