Indian Creek First Grade News
September 10 2018-September 14 2018
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What are we learning?
We are working on creating stamina while reading to ourselves, reading to others and working on writing. We have gone over some strategies on reading for reading a book and how to hold and read a book. These skills are needed as we move into a workshop environment. When the students have the skill to work independently then the teacher can move into meeting with small groups of students. This week we are working on what to do at a poetry station, word writing station, listening station, classroom library station, and what do when the teacher is working with a small group.
We are working on the pattern of words that are: consonants, vowel, consonants (CVC). Example CAT, DOG, and MAN. We will be look at the letters being placed in beginning , middle and end of words. Now that we have a majority of our assessment of where your children are preforming academically we will be able to work on strengths and weakness.
Sight Words for next week are: to, can, see, go, my We will send these words home on first day of the school week. Student will have to write a sentence for each word on the list. This homework will be due on FRIDAY. We will have a traditional spelling test for these words and your child will have to be able to read the words independently.
Words Their Way will be coming in Late September. That will be a different list of words.
Social Studies- We will be working on leadership and how voting works. We will be talking about teachers, principals, Mayors, Governors, Presidents. We will observe a minute of silence on Patriots Day.- September 11th, teachers will read a scripted text approved by the District on this solemn day. As not to worry our younger children, we will be focusing on kind deeds.
Handwriting -we are working on reviewing consonants and vowels. We are still working on how to correctly form the letters with correct strokes, writing position, and grip on the writing tool.
Math- we are working math routines and exploring numbers 0-20. During this exploration we will work on both addition and subtraction up to 10. We have started intentional problem solving where we will be working on strategies to solve word problems. Student will be able to explore math tools. Student should be able to explain how they are solving the problem. We are working on learning math routines for math workshop. When the students have mastered the skill to work independently then the teacher can move into meeting with small groups of students.
Teachers will be assessing students on our Universal Screener for math. This is a quick 1 to 1 assessment on math skills.
Wednesday night an IPS (Intentional Problem Solving ) sheet will come home this week-sorry for the miscommunication last week. It will be due on Thursday.
Science-we are working on science tools and how our sense help us observe the world around us. We will be exploring sight, hearing, smell and touch. We will be smelling and tasting Pringle Chips this week. Teachers will send home a permission slip for this activity. If you child can not eat a Pringles chip can you please indicate that on the permission slip. We want everyone to enjoy this activity and be safe.
Growing Struggling Students
If your child is a daycare student-please check with your daycare for a later pick-up time. Some daycares are more flexible when they know a student needs tutoring. Then let them know that the pick up for tutoring is backside of school by the basketball /gym area , the traditional K-1st pick up line.
Meals and Snacks
We are doing snacks. Please be mindful of portions and food quality you are sending with your children to school. We are seeing a lot of cookies and potato chips. We love to see fruit in our snack baskets-please make sure it is an item that is ready to eat-please peel oranges for your children and place in a baggie with their name on it. We are still asking that your label your child's snack with their names to avoid confusion of who's snack is who's.
WE ARE ALLERGY AWARE!
We have some students that have peanut and variety of nuts allergies, eggs, soy and strawberries allergies.
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
Office 469-713-5180
E-mail: Freedenbergr@LISD.net