Reminders:
PE Fun Day is on Friday!
Standards For the Week!
Guided Reading will begin this week! The children will review and learn about what we do during this time. We will practice and review good reading strategies! In First Grade we are going to really focus on reading fluency and reading comprehension.
Writing Workshop- The children will be learning about what good writer's do and writing expectations. We will meet in small groups and conference about writing. The children will learn that there is always something that a writer did really well on "glow" and something they need to work on the next time they write "grow or next step". This week we are really going to focus on finger spacing between each word,
beginning a sentence with a capital letter and ending a sentence with a punctuation mark. The children are writing 3 or more sentences when writing about a topic.
Handwriting- Aa
Words Their Way- short “o” sound
Math- We are learning about subtraction. The children will understand what to subtract means (take
away). This can get some children confused on addition and subtraction symbols. Start getting your child use to seeing both symbols so they can recognize each in a snap! Also, we will continue to make tens and ones (place value) with numbers up to 30.
Reading- The children are identifying the setting and the setting in the story. We are also reviewing
about what an author does, what an illustrator does and what is important about a title. Also, we will be discussing how we retell events in the story. The standard for the current 9 weeks is to retell 4
or more events in order of the story. How well can your child retell 4 events? We are working on 2 events and we will build to 4 events quickly.
Word Work- The children have learned about word families. We have families with words, people,
animals, and numbers. A word family is a word with the same ending sound which means they rhyme too! For example, pet, wet, and met all belong together because they end the same. This seems like an easy concept. The children can identify those words but creating them on their own is a little bit more difficult. Also, these words are called CVC words which mean consonant-vowel-consonant words. Your child should know all of their consonants and vowels at this point in first grade.
Social Studies- We will continue to learn about Benjamin Franklin. Did you know he was a writer, statesman, and inventor? He invented several things that we are learning about, so ask your child what all he did!
Have a great week!
