Week of May 6th

What We’re Learning This Week:

Reading: The students will be reading the nonfiction story, “Flip, Float, Fly Seeds on the Move”. We will focus on identifying words and phrases in the story that suggest feelings.  Additionally the students will need to use the pictures and details from the story to tell about the characters, setting, and events.  As always, we will be reading poetry for fluency and expression practice.

*Please continue to read your child’s book-in-a-bag nightly with them.

Writing:  The first graders will continue their writing unit for fourth quarter, realistic fiction.  We introduced this unit by discussing story elements in realistic fiction.  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 satisfying ending. 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.  The children will be exploring the option of writing a series about a character.

Word Study/Spelling: 

Fry Words:  Review Fry Words (fourth quarter)

Feature/Pattern of the week: Long Vowels e, o, u (no assessment)

Grammar: Prepositions

Phonics: Long e (ee/ea) and Short e (ea)

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 finish our unit on shapes (defining and non-defining attributes).

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

Extras:

* Permission slips for field trip (walking to library on May 20th) are due Friday May 10^th.  Mrs. Kudley would like the library card applications returned by this Wednesday, May 8^th— completing the library card application is optional 😊 If you need more forms, let me know.

* Career Week- Week of May 6^th.  Career Day speeches: May 10^th – if you need another speech form for your child to complete, let me know.

* Tie Dye shirt in Art: Tuesday, May 14^th – don’t forget to bring in a T-Shirt. See the flier that came home from Miss Hickey.  If you need another one, let me know.

* Field Day- May 24^th – Mrs. Wakefield sent out an email with a link if you would like to sign up to volunteer. 

* Right to read day- May 29^th – the kids will participate in a book swap the week before during their library time.  Miss Kudley is asking students to bring in a gently used book from home that they want to trade for another gently used book.  Please bring the book to school by Friday, May 10^th.  I will send home a flier about this.