First Grade News
November 7, 2022
This Weeks Focus
Please make sure you are reading with your student at least 10-15 minutes daily if possible!
A few reminders:
-Please make sure your student is eating at home if they do not get a breakfast from the school. We don't want your student to be hungry before lunch time. Please get them here early if they are eating breakfast at school!
-Library books should be returned each week on your child's Library Day!
-Students need to bring headphones for their chromebooks.
-If students are changing the way they go home one day, please email me or call the school. We want to make sure we get the students in the right spot. If a student tells me they are going home a different way than usual, I will still send them home the same way as always unless I hear from a parent/guardian.
-Students may bring water bottles to drink in class. Please make sure they bring water and not juice. Students can have juice/other drinks at lunch but we prefer water in class. Spills make for a sticky mess and attract ants.
-Please make sure you put your child's name on his/her jackets, hoodies, and water bottles
-Please remind students not to bring toys to school
-We love celebrating birthdays in class but please make sure student is only bring cupcakes/treat. No goody bags please!
What we are working on this week in:
ELA-
We will read the following Tricky Words: he, she, we, be, me, they, their, my, by, you, and your.
We will distinguish words with long vowel, vowel-consonant-‘e’ sound/ spellings from words with short vowel sound/spellings.
We will reread stories from Gran with increased accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive reading; and will review the spellings and punctuation marks used in the stories.
We will read “The Trip West” with purpose and understanding, and will answer literal, inferential, and evaluative questions about the story.
I will know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills, such as applying common letter-sound correspondences, in decoding words as they complete the Unit 2 Word Recognition Assessment.
I will read “Saved by the Bells” independently and will answer multiple choice, literal questions about the story.
We will identify the nouns in oral sentences, and will determine whether the noun names a person, place, or thing.
We will compare and contrast “Thumbelina” and “Tom Thumb” in writing.
We will use a group drawing to orally describe a similarity or difference between folktales.
I will orally describe the drawings they created about specific parts of the Read-Aloud.
We will compare and contrast “Little Red Riding Hood” and “Hu Gu Po” in writing.
Math-
I can relate counting on to making ten and taking from ten
I can model subtraction of 8 from teen numbers.
I can compare efficiency of counting on and taking from ten.
I can subtract 7, 8, and 9 from teen numbers.
Science-
Where can we find shadows?
Upcoming Events
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November 21-25 - Thanksgiving Break