Hello,
Last week marked the end of the second quarter. First
graders have grown so much this year. Report cards will be coming home Monday,
January 25th. What a great way to celebrate all the gains your child has made
so far this year.
** For one of our centers in Social Studies we will be cutting pictures from magazines. If you have any old magazines that you don't mind donating to our class please send them to school. Thank You!
We are having a lot of fun celebrating New Directions so far
this week! Hopefully you will be able to
join us tonight or Thursday night! Here
are some serious and silly pictures from crazy hair/hat day!
Upcoming Events:
Monday, January 18th-Friday, January
22nd-Celebrate New Directions Week
Tuesday, January 19th-5:30-7:00 PM Spaghetti and Art
Night
Wednesday, January 20th-No School
Thursday, January 21st-6:00-7:00 PM-Gym Night-No RSVP
necessary
Friday, January 29-6:00-7:30 New Directions/EQ Dance
Curriculum Updates:
Readers' Workshop:
We are continuing to add new tools to read hard words. Today
we tried sounds many ways to figure out words because some words sound
different than they look. We need to try sounds several ways until the word
sounds right. We will also work on reading the words we know is a snap, and
only slowing down to read a word when we have to so our reading sounds as
smooth as it can be. Thursday and Friday we will focus on using tools to
understand our books. We'll work on rereading if we don't understand something,
and make movies in our minds to picture what's happening.
Writers' Workshop: We are continuing to work on
our reviews. Students have been reviewing toys, restaurants, games and many
other favorites. We will be learning more details we can add to our reviews to
make them even more convincing. We'll add small moment stories that fit with
the topic of our reviews, come up with ways to hook our reader into reading our
reviews, write catchy conclusions to tie our pieces up and work with our
partners to give our writing check-ups, making sure our writing is easy to
read.
Word Study: No new words will be coming home
this week. We will be spending time studying letter combinations and different
sounds they can make (ie -ed can make the /t/, /d/ and /id/ sound).
Math Workshop:
We're finishing up our work with 2 digit numbers. We'll spend some time comparing 2 digit numbers, deciding which one is more and which one is less and practice using the appropriate symbols: < > =. We'll also spend some time practicing using 2-digit addition, focusing on using tens and ones to add 1-digit and 2 digit numbers. At the end of the week we will be focusing on mathematical practices, including making sense of problems, reasoning, and using words and models to back our thinking.
We're finishing up our work with 2 digit numbers. We'll spend some time comparing 2 digit numbers, deciding which one is more and which one is less and practice using the appropriate symbols: < > =. We'll also spend some time practicing using 2-digit addition, focusing on using tens and ones to add 1-digit and 2 digit numbers. At the end of the week we will be focusing on mathematical practices, including making sense of problems, reasoning, and using words and models to back our thinking.
Science/Social Studies: We spent some time
learning about Martin Luther King Jr. yesterday. This week we will starting our
families centers to help us learn more about families today and long ago. In
our centers we will learning what kinds of things families do, where people go
and what they do, how are families the same/different long ago compared to
today, and creating collages of things we enjoy to do with our families.
Stay Warm!
As always, let me know if you have any questions.
Samantha
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