Mrs. Majinski's First Grade Class: November 7-11 Newsletter

Friday, November 4, 2022

This week in literacy, we will...

Blend sounds to produce words with s-blends.
Read and write words with final blends.
Read irregularly spelled words (call, from, which, very).
Read a story titled Snail's Big Adventure by David Earl. While reading, we will recognize and use -ed and -ing endings. We will also infer the meaning of events from a snail's perspective, infer reasons for Snail's feelings and notice the author's word choice.
Identify the elements of a sentence.
Understand and use quotation marks.
Read a poem titled, "A Snail". We will notice quotation marks in the poem, highlight words with s-blends and discuss the meaning of unknown words.
Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness lessons.

This week in writing, we will...

Continue working on opinion writing.
Read the book "The Day the Crayons Quit”
Write a persuasive letter to one of the crayons telling them why we think they are important so they don’t quit - be sure to look for these projects in the hallway during parent/teacher conferences!

This week in math, we will...

Learn 2 new workplaces called “Doubles Plus or Minus One” and “Tower Race”.
Use number racks to solve addition and subtraction story problems.
Continue November Number Corner workouts of whole, halves, and fourths, and continue to collect hours each day on digital and analog clocks.

This week in social studies, we will...

Begin a new unit about Neighborhoods.
Learn about different types of homes and how each home is different.
Listen to the book A House is a House for Me and think about different homes that animals have.
Learn about maps and begin creating a map of our classroom, bedroom, or house.

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