Dear Parents,                     May 4, 2015 Thank you to all who came to support our first graders in our May Crowning on Friday. It was absolutely beautiful. I must admit I did get a bit teary-eyed. This week in first grade, we are learning… Language Arts: Our reading strategy this week is questioning.  Reading the title, […]

Dear Parents,                     April 27, 2015 This week in first grade, we are learning… Language Arts: Our reading strategy this week is evaluating.  The comprehension skill that will help us with evaluating is story structure.  Knowing the setting, the characters, the problem, and solution in the story and being able to sequence the events will help […]

Dear Parents,                     April 19, 2015 This week in first grade, we are learning… Language Arts: We are starting theme 9 in our reading series – Special Friends.  Our reading strategy this week is “monitor/clarify”.  The comprehension skill that will help us with this strategy is noting details.  Using the text, pictures, and paying attention to […]

Dear Parents,                     April 13, 2015 I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter and a fantastic break! This week in first grade, we are learning… Language Arts Our reading strategy this week is “predicting/inferring”.  The comprehension skill that will help us with inferring is drawing conclusions.  Using the text, pictures, and our own prior knowledge will […]

Dear Parents,                     March 30, 2015 This week in first grade, we are learning… Language Arts Our reading strategy this week is “evaluating”.  The comprehension skill that will help us in evaluating is topic, main idea, details, and summarizing.  After reading a selection, being able to identify the topic of the selection, the main ideas and […]

Dear Parents,                     March 23, 2015 This week in first grade, we are learning… Language Arts We are starting theme 8 in our reading series – Our Earth.  Our reading strategy this week is “summarizing”.  The comprehension skill that will help with summarizing is categorizing or classifying.  Paying attention to what is the same or different […]

Dear Parents,                     March 16, 2015 This week in first grade, we are learning… Language Arts Our reading strategy this week is “questioning”.  Good readers question before they start reading, as well as, during reading.  The comprehension skill that will help is “fantasy/realism”.  Using our everyday experiences to determine if events in a story can really […]

Dear Parents,                     March 9, 2015 This week in first grade, we are learning… Language Arts Our reading strategy this week is “monitor and clarify”.  Stopping to reread especially if there are words we have difficulty reading and making sure the sentence and the story make sense to us are strategies that good readers use.  The […]

Dear Parents,                     March 2, 2015 This week in first grade, we are learning… Language Arts We are starting theme 7 in language arts – We Can Work It Out!  Our reading strategy is summarizing and our comprehension skill that helps us with this is problem solving.  In order to summarize a story, it is helpful […]

Dear Parents,                     February 23, 2015 This week in first grade, we are learning… Language Arts: Our reading strategy this week is predict/infer and the comprehension skill that will help with that strategy is predicting.  Taking time to look through what we are going to read, to look at titles or pictures and predict what the […]