Indian Creek First Grade News
September 25 2017-September 29 2017
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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.
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.
Sight Words for next week are: to, can, see, go, my
Words Their Way will be coming in October. 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
Handwriting -we are working on reviewing consonants and vowel. We are finish up one penmanship project and getting ready to start more writing.
Math- we are working math routines and exploring numbers 0-10. During this exploration we will work on both addition and subtraction up to 10. We are starting 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. 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 are going to mention taste but will not be tasting anything in this segment for safety reasons.
Growing Struggling Students
This is a different group than after school tutor because these groups meet during regular school hours.
After school tutoring has started for select students. Those students were invited last week to join teacher last week.
Meals and Snacks
Snacks
We will do snacks before we go to MAPS in the afternoon. Your child can have one snack that is on the healthy side. We would like it to be healthy-pretzels, goldfish, kixs cereal, Cheerios, granola, fruit, raisins and fruit leather. Please try to stay away from potato chips and other foods with negative food value.
WE ARE ALLERGY AWARE!
We have some students that have peanut, 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
Ms. Denison
Office 469-713-5180
Email: DenisonT@LISD.net
Office 469-713-5180
E-mail: Freedenbergr@LISD.net