Guest Reader/ Week of February 10th

Thank you to our guest reader Mr. Dray!!!

What We’re Learning This Week:  

Reading: “Childhood Stories of George Washington”  (Non Fiction)
Students will be working on asking and answering questions about key details in a text.  We will also read a passage about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln to describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text. We’ll be continuing guided reading and Daily 5/centers.   Please keep in mind, depending on the guided reading schedule each day, your child may not bring home a NEW book to read every day. As always, we’ll be reading poetry weekly for fluency and expression practice.

Writing: We are continuing our non-fiction writing unit.  We will continue to review non-fiction books and discuss how they teach us about topics. Students are working on writing facts/information about a topic. After planning their writing using a table of contents, students write an introduction, 2-3 detailed chapters, and a conclusion. We have really been focusing on adding details to really teach our readers, as well as adding text features such as labels and captions.

Word Study/Spelling:
• Review Week - No new patterns or read/write words

Phonics: -ill, -ell, -all ; inflected endings

Grammar:
• Introduce determiners

Math: Our math lessons each day will include computational fluency, fact fluency, and core math instruction focused on the first grade common core math standards. Computational fluency will help the students to use the most effective and efficient strategies. Fact Fluency is working with both addition and subtraction facts within 10. At the end of first grade, students will need to solve 15 addition facts in one minute and 15 subtraction facts in one minute. Our core lessons will include hands-on math activities and games that support the common core. We will continue to work on story problems, focusing on giving the correct number sentence with missing numbers in all positions, and then solving the number sentence.  We will also use our place value dice to record numbers, focusing on tens and ones, and even hundreds.

3rd grading period Science and Social Studies:
Science: Living and Non-Living Things (gummy worms and mealworms)
Social Studies: Geography/Places and Regions

Extras:

-Please make sure you are checking your child’s take home folder.

-Snacks should be nut free.

-Valentine’s Day parties- February 12^th  : student names were sent home so the kids can fill out their valentines. The kids will decorate bags in school to put their valentines in.

- Feb. 13^th- No school : Professional Development day for teachers
- Feb. 14th - No school

- Feb. 17^th – No school : President’s Day