Week 21
This is such a fun time of year! Students are making so much growth and progress and it’s awesome to have a front row seat! If your child is participating in any sports, please let me know when they play, as I would love to support them outside of the classroom as well!
REMINDERS:
- PLEASE label all coats, jackets, hats, and other winter accessories with your child’s first and last name.
HOMEWORK:
- Reading every night for 20 minutes (This includes sight words and reading group books that are coming home each night. Please return the books each day with your child.) ***MANY students have not had reading logs signed lately, please make sure that this is a priority each night.
- Math fact sheet each night
LAST WEEK WE:
- Learned why we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. day
- Took an assessment on pronouns
- Continued to learn about adjectives
- Practiced spelling words within the -ump family
- Continued learning about non-fiction text features such as glossary, index, and captions
- Used 5 Star sentences to write about what we would do if we had a particular type of teeth
- Continued learning and writing more about penguins
- Decomposed an addend to make a ten
THIS WEEK WE WILL:
- Continue learning more about adjectives and take an assessment
- Begin learning about plural nouns…more than one chicken is called chickens, more than one fox is called foxes
- Take a word study assessment on the -ump family
- Review non-fiction text features and practice naming examples of each
- Share our non-fiction text features book with the other first grade classes
- Create a class venn diagram comparing penguins and polar bears
- Group students in partners to research an animal of their choice
- Use 5 star sentences to write an opinion paper on what the best animal is and why
- Continue working on decomposing numbers both when adding and subtracting. This is a difficult concept for students, but we will continue to work on this very important strategy!
DATES TO REMEMBER:
- 2/17/19- President’s Day-No School
THIS WEEK’S SLIDESHOW INCLUDES:
- #WHYYOUMATTER pictures are on display at our local library
- Students practiced reading their non-fiction penguin books to each other
- Our “Sweet Treat” that our class earned
- Math fact practice with cards and dice
- Decomposing addends to make a 10 and add on