May 23rd Newsletter

 

May 23rd, 2022

This week in literacy, we will…

• Use context to understand connected text

• Understand that words have more than one meaning

• Read a book titled, Antonio and the Firefly by June Schwartz. While reading, we will adjust our voices to reflect dialogue and punctuation. We will also recognize words ending in -ed to make a word past tense and plural nouns ending in -s. We will discuss the big ideas (messages) in the story. 

• Infer the main character's feelings and use those inferences while writing in their Reader's Notebooks.

• Read a poem titled, Little Robin Redbreast

• Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Lessons

In Writing this week, we will… 

• Finish our Narrative Writing Unit

• Utilize our editing checklist

• Create cereal book boxes to hold our new Series

• Share our new Series with partners and the class

In math this week, we will… 

• Take MAP testing 

• Understand how long a second, minute, and hour are

• Compare a second, minute, and hour

• Learn how to play an hour or bust

• Tell time to the hour and half hour

• Introduce telling time to the 5th minute

In Science this week, we will begin a new unit on weather.  We will…

• Make a season collage with pictures that remind us of each season

• Fill out a daily weather journal

• Learn about different types of precipitation

Important Dates to Remember!

May 23 - NEON Day

May 24- MAP Assessment (Math)

May 25- MAP Assessment (Math)

May 26 - Quiet Day - Bring in a stuffed animal for quiet reading

June 1 -Turn Off the Lights Day - Bring a flashlight

May 16th Newsletter

  This week in literacy, we will... 

• Learn that the vowel combination ue and ew make the /oo/ sound, as in true and crew
• Learn that homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings
• Read a book titled, The Cactus Hotel, by Abbey Grace Moore. We will read words with consonant clusters and understand new vocabulary from context. We will also identify the author's purpose for writing the book.
• Respond to reading in our Reader's Notebooks
• Read a poem titled, How Much Dew? We will highlight the words with the ew spelling pattern in the poem and identify the homophones "do" and "dew".
• Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Lessons

This week in writing, we will... 

• Continue our Narrative Writing Unit

• Focus on creating and including small, realistic details

• Edit our work to include important components of realistic fiction

• Revise our writing to make it easy to read

• Prepare our series for publication

This week in math, we will... 

• Tell time to the hour and half-hour on an analog clock

• Understand how long a second, minute, and hour are

• Compare a second, minute, and hour

• Learn how to play a game called "Hour or Bust"

This week in social studies, we will... 

• Learn about sugar and how much sugar is in different foods and drinks

• Create a healthy recipe and make a class recipe book

• Make observations about our first grade raised garden and take a look at all of the healthy foods that are beginning to grow!

Reminders and Upcoming Events:

• May 16- MAP Assessment (Reading)/Interesting Fact Day
• May 17- Just Dance Day
• May 18- MAP Assessment (Reading)/Kindness Day
• May 19- Lemonade Day
• May 20- Mismatch Day
• May 24- MAP Assessment (Math)
• May 25- MAP Assessment (Math)

May 9th Newsletter

 

May 9th, 2022

This week in literacy, we will…

• Read a book titled The Strawberry Hunt, by Joan Silver. We will discuss the story's setting and why it's important, talk about how illustrations and print features help us understand information, and make personal connections to the events in the story.

• Respond to The Strawberry Hunt by writing about the problem and solution in the story

• Read and sequence sentences to develop the concept of first, next and last

• Learn that when a one-syllable word ends in f, l, s or z, the final consonant is usually doubled. These words have short vowel sounds

• Read a poem titled I Know Something. We will highlight words in the poem that follow the FLSZ spelling rule

• Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Lessons

In Writing this week, we will… 

• Continue our Narrative Writing Unit

• Edit our work to include important components 

• Investigate what makes Realistic Fiction realistic

• Focus on creating and including small realistic details

• Create an Elephant & Piggie comic strip for E Day in the ABC countdown

In math this week, we will… 

• Read and write numerals to 120

• Count by 10s to 100

• Demonstrate an understanding that the digits in a 2-digit number represent amounts of tens and ones

• Use>, <, and = symbols to record comparisons of two 2-digit numbers

• Add a 1-digit number and a 2-digit number

• Determine the value of a collection of coins totaling less that $1.00

• Reason abstractly and quantitatively 

• Mentally find the number that is 10 more than a given 2-digit number, without counting

• Determine the value of a collection of coins totaling less than $1.00 

In Science this week, we will continue our unit on Nutrition.  We will…

• Learn about healthy foods, snacking and why it’s important to eat nutritious foods

• Learn about foods that have vitamins and minerals in them

Important Dates to Remember!

May 10 - Staffaroni/Keller Riveredge Field Trip

May 12 - Glow Day wear white

May 13 - Hat Day

May 16 - MAP Assessment (Reading)Interesting Fact day, write down and bring in an interesting fact! 

May 17-Just Dance Day

May 18- MAP Assessment (Reading)/Kindness Day

May 19- Lemonade Day

May 20- Mismatch Day

May 24- MAP Assessment (Math)

May 25- MAP Assessment (Math)

May 2nd Newsletter

This week in literacy, we will... 

• Learn that a noun names a person, place, thing, or idea
• Learn that proper nouns name specific people, places, and things. Proper nouns are always capitalized
• Learn that the vowel combination -igh has the long i sound, as in high and night
• Read a book titled, Animal Surprises, by Nicole Walker. We will notice and talk about what is important in the text and use nonfiction text features to gain more information. We will also read words with long vowel sounds with silent e, and use context to read and understand unfamiliar words. Finally, we will work on fluent reading by using punctuation marks to read with appropriate intonation and pausing. 
• Identify the main idea and supporting details from Animal Surprises during Community Writing time.
• Read a poem titled, I'd Like to Be a Lighthouse. We will identify and read words with the     -igh vowel combination. 
• Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness lessons

This week in writing, we will... 

• Continue our Narrative Writing Unit

• Discuss Book Series and think of ways to make our own series using the characters we have already created 

• Create introductions that grab the reader's attention and introduce our main characters

• Include dialogue in our books to help our characters come to life

• Revise our work 

This week in math, we will... 

• Solve addition story problems with sums to 20 involving situations of adding to and putting together, with unknowns in all positions

• Solve story problems involving addition of 3 whole numbers whose sums is less than or equal to 20

• Apply the commutative and associative properties of addition to add

• Use strategies to add with sums to 20

• Demonstrate an understanding that the length measurement of an object is the number of same-size length units that span it with no gaps or overlaps

• Play the "Path Game"

• Take unit 7 Assessment

This week in science, we will... 

• Begin a unit on nutrition

• Learn about the importance of choosing healthy food

• Learn how healthy food nourishes our bodies and helps us grow strong and healthy

• Learn about the five different food groups

• Create pretend meals and snacks using items from each of the food groups

Reminders and Upcoming Events:

• May 4- Awesome Art Day and Star Wars Day 
• May 4 - Field Trip to Riveredge Nature Center- SEND A BAGGED LUNCH
• May 5- Baby Picture Day
• May 6- Crazy Sock Day
• May 13- Early Release Day (1:45)