Dear Parents,
I am looking forward to meeting everyoneduring conference week to discuss each child's progress in First Grade. I will give each of you a Parent Survey at the end of your conference....please fill it in and put it into one of the Parent Survey boxes placed near the front office. Thank you!
Please click on the page links on the right to see the Standards we will be working on for each curriculum area in the second nine weeks.
This week and next week we will be working on the following:
Math – Counting combinations of bills up to $20. Missing addends ( 3 + _ = 7 or 5 + 3 = 2 + _ )
Ongoing revision of these concepts and skills: Fact Families (eg. related facts make a fact family eg. 3+2=5, 2+3=5, 5-3=2, 5-2=3) Review subtraction to 12 - introduce the concept and vocabulary (subtract, take away, minus, how many left?). Review Place Value - identifying tens and ones in a given number (For example: 26 is 2 tens and 6 ones),continuing simple addition to 12 (no regrouping). Using the ‘Counting on’ strategy to add two numbers (put one number in your head and count on to find the sum), adding zero to a number and adding doubles (4+4+8, 3+3+6 etc...) Math problem solving, graphs, days of the week and months of the year. Counting coin combinations up to 30 cents (pennies, nickels and dimes), skip counting in 5's and 10's.
Literacy - Identify long vowel sounds (rake, bike, woke,tube). Learn the rule - when two vowels go walking the first does the talking - for example meat, rain, road, reed. Silent 'e' as in cake, note, ride, use. Writer's Workshop - creating a Pattern Book. Identify the beginning, middle and end of a story. Nouns (name of a person, place or thing), adjectives (describing words).
Ongoing: Responding to stories and poems, initial letter sounds, short vowel 'u', antonyms (opposites such as happy and sad, tall and short). Synonyms (words that means the same thing but are spelled differently such as big and large, sad and unhappy). Writer's workshop - writing a journal entry (personal narrative), writing a letter. Identifying a complete sentence (capital letter at beginning, punctuation at the end, tells a complete idea or thought and must be written legibly with finger spaces). Having a good beginning when writing (One sunny morning, Last Saturday, Once upon a time, In the winter etc...) Narrative story elements - identify the main character(s) and the setting. Identify the problem in a story and how the problem was solved (the solution) .
Social Studies - Describe landforms (plain, plateau, mountain, coast, valley, desert)
Science - Magnets. What can a magnet do? How can a magnet help me? Vocabulary - attract, repel, poles, force, pull, push, metal.
Handwriting - Letter Gg, Jj
Reminders:
Please check red folders daily.
Homework folders due on Friday.
Spelling Quiz on Friday!
Media Center on Friday - please return all library books
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