Week of April 1st

What We’re Learning This Week:

Reading: The students will be reading “Spring Is Here”, a non-fiction/informational story about spring. We will talk about what we KNOW, WANT to learn, and LEARNED about spring through our text.  We will focus on asking and answering questions about the text. We will also focus on non-fiction text features, as well as vocabulary. As always, we will be reading poetry for fluency and expression practice.

*Please continue to have your child read his/her book-in-a-bag nightly with you.

Writing:  The first graders started their new writing unit for fourth quarter, realistic fiction.  We introduced this unit by discussing story elements in realistic fiction.  The students listened to mentor texts, and they began planning their first realistic fiction story.  Each story will include a character, place (setting), and plot (trouble) that their character gets into. By the end of this unit the children will be expected to write a story that has two or more events, with details, transition words, and a wrap-up sentence. We will also be continuing to work on capitalization, end marks and writing detailed sentences through mini-lessons.  During this unit, each child will write a made up story with characters doing realistic things and revisit his or her writing to self-assess and revise.

Word Study/Spelling: 

Fry Words:  who   oil    sit   now   find

Feature/Pattern of the week: Beginning consonant digraphs with short vowels     Ex: them, whip, chin

Grammar: Review conjunctions

Phonics: REVIEW –ng, -nd endings and spr- blend
              r controlled vowel : ar

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.  Our end-of-the-year goal is to have students complete 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.  This week we will continue to focus on finding 10 more or 10 less than a 2-digit number without having to count.  We will also be reviewing if two number sentences are equal or not equal.

4th grading period Science and Social Studies:Science: Plants
Social Studies:  Historical Thinking and Skills & Heritage

Extras

·         March 22nd – report cards came home- please keep report card and sign/return report card envelope. 

·         March 25^th- April 1st : Spring break

·         The children have been participating in book talks- they are encouraged to sign up to share and talk about a book that they have read.  It is great to see the kids excited about wanting to read the different books.

·         The children are continuing to fill our bucket with acts of kindness- they are encouraged to write these kind acts of kindness on an index card and drop it in the bucket 😊