The Sneak Peek
March 12th, 2018
NO SCHOOL
Classroom Curriculum
-Children will participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and large groups.
-Children will ask and answer questions about text.
-Children will identify main topic and details.
-Children will Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
-Children will Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text.
-Children will explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types.
-Children will use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas.
- Children will Identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text
-Children will Identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., an illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).
This week we will be studying realistic fiction. We will be comparing realistic fiction to fantasy.
WRITER'S WORKSHOP
- Identify real life connections between words and their use (e.g. note places at home that are cozy). Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs differing in manner (e.g., look, peek, glance, stare, glare, scowl) and adjectives differing in intensity (e.g., large, gigantic) by defining or choosing them or by acting out the meanings.
-Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
This week we will be writing descriptive poems using our five senses.
MATH WORKSHOP
-Add within 100, including adding a two-digit number and a one-digit number, and adding a two-digit number and a multiple of 10, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used. Understand that in adding two-digit numbers, one adds tens and tens, ones and ones; and sometimes it is necessary to compose a ten
-Given a two-digit number, mentally find 10 more or 10 less than the number, without having to count; explain the reasoning used.
-Subtract multiples of 10 in the range 10-90 from multiples of 10 in the range 10-90 (positive or zero differences), using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used.
Social Studies
Classroom Calendar
Tuesday, March 13th - No School
Wednesday, March 14th - encore -Art
Thursday, March 15th - encore - Makerspace
Friday, March 16th - encore - Chinese
March 16 K-2 Dance 6:30-8:30
March 19-23 K Registration
March 30-April 6 Spring Break
April 13-Movie Night
April 13 Last Day to order yearbooks
April 19 Spring Pictures