Monday, October 11, 2021

October 11th Newsletter

 

Week of October 11th, 2021


Our class is growing so much already in first grade! Take home books will be sent home starting this week! Please read the information that comes in the bag with the book! Thank you for reading daily with your child! 


This week in literacy, we will…


  • Understand that some letters represent vowel sounds

  • Hear and identify short vowel sounds in words

  • Read Jumping into the Leaves by Winnie Tucker. We will use and recognize long vowel sounds in words and notice periods, commas, question marks and exclamation marks. We will also talk about how the character changed or learned a lesson in the story. 

  • Read a poem titled, Autumn Leaves 

  • Read books about fall including, 

  • Participate in Heggerty Phonological Awareness Lessons

  • Learn proper letter formation for the Magic C letter s. We will also add “s” to the end of words to make them plural


In writing this week, we will…

  • Start our unit on opinion writing and writing reviews

  • Share our opinions about different topics with others

  • Explain our reasoning/evidence behind our opinions 

  • Understand the components of writing an opinion piece 



In math this week, we will…

  • - Recognize the number of objects in a collection of 6 or fewer

  • - Solve addition problems by counting on

  • - Use >, <, and = symbols to compare

  • - Reason abstractly and quantitatively

  • - Count up to 20 objects to answer "how many?" questions.

  • - Add within 20


In Science this week, we will…

  • Continue to learn about animals we see in the fall.

  • Use the online resource PebbleGo to learn even more about the fall animals.

  • Begin a new science unit about land and water!  We will begin learning about different types of landforms.


Important Dates to Remember!

10/16-All School Open House 9:00 am-3:00 pm

10/19-4K Field Trip-Cedar Creek Farm

10/19-5th Grade Riveredge-Sommerfeld

10/20-5th Grade Riveredge-Kahn

10/21-5th Grade Riveredge-VanSluys

10/22- Early Release 1:45

10/25-Pumpkin Days

10/26-5th Grade Riveredge-Mr. Hartling 

10/29- Outdoor Halloween Parade


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