This week we are finishing our hard work on writing book recommendations for our friends! You may see some come home, but we're hanging on to one that we will be sharing with another 1st grade class. Sharing our writing in an authentic way makes it more valuable and worthwhile to kids. If you read your child's book recommendation and then make a trip to the Cedarburg Public Library, you could find that book and read it together!
In our reader's workshop we'll continue to read great recommended stories, and we are studying the vowel "e" and the different sounds it can make. We are examining different words with "e" and deciding if they make the long sound, the short sound or are silent. You can help by noticing signs while driving to activities and on errands. Chances are, they know the word anyway, like when you're at Target. Say "Target" and listen for that "e," which sound is it making? We're also working really hard to find smaller words or chunks we know, that can help us when we're stuck on bigger words. For example, the word "and" is inside "stands," and we can go from and, to stand, to stands.
This week in math, we will...
- Use number lines to count by 1s, 5s and 10s, as well as find missing numbers on the number line through 120.
- Solve addition and subtraction story problems involving multiples of ten by jumping on a floor number line. Students will record equations to represent the story problems.
- Use the number line to practice adding and subtracting by counting on and counting back by 10s.
- Learn a new Math Work Place called Super Frogs. To play, students hop their game marker along a number line to match an equation. The team with the greater sum or difference scores a point.
- Identify and describe attributes of three-dimensional shapes.
- Tell time to the hour.
- Learn about animal adaptation in winter.
- Conduct a blubber experiment to learn how some animals keep warm in cold weather.
Scholastic Book Orders are due TODAY, Monday, December 9th if you'd like to guaranteed delivery before winter break! I will be placing the order this evening at 8:00 p.m. Go to www.scholastic.com/bookclubs Online Code: JBVLK
- December 2-13- Kapko Kids 2 Kids Toy Drive
- THANK YOU to all of the families that donated toys the past few weeks!
- December 9- PTO Meeting (7:00 pm)
- December 12- Student Council Hat or Stuffed Animal Day ($1.00)- donations go to Kapko Toy Drive
- December 20- Polar Express Day/Book Exchange
- We are looking forward to our holiday party next Friday. Thank you in advance to all of the parents who are donating items! It will be a fun filled day with lots of different activities and games!
- December 23-January 1- Winter Break
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