Dear Parents, November 17, 2014
This week in first grade, we are learning…
Language Arts: We are starting theme 4 in our reading series this week. The theme is “Family & Friends”. Our reading strategy is “summarizing”. After reading a story, we should be able to retell the important parts of the story. While reading, we pay attention to the main idea and the important details in the story and this will help us retell the story. Our comprehension skill this week is “drawing conclusions”. While reading, we pay attention to what is happening in the story not only for summarizing but also for drawing conclusions. Thinking critically, and being able to conclude or make a true generalization from a story will help us become good, strategic readers. Our phonics focus this week is words with ‘l’ clusters. We will also review contractions with ‘s, consonant ‘r’ clusters and short /o/ words in our reading. Our grammar focus continues to be on the naming and action parts of sentences.
Spelling: This week, our spelling words are from unit 14 – clusters with ‘l’.
Math: We are continuing with Unit 4: Measurement and Basic Facts. This week we will be learning about tape measures, telling time to the quarter hour, and timelines!
Religion: We will be reading from our religion books this week. This week we will learn that God promised us a Savior.
Science: We will continue with Chapter 3: How Living Things Meet Their Needs. We will study food chains this week.
Social Studies: We will continue practicing our Readers Theatre Thanksgiving Play! We will perform on Wednesday November 26 at 11:15am in the classroom. We hope to see you there!
Homework for the Week:
- Monday: Rainbow Write 2X and Math Worksheet
- Tuesday: Spelling p. 111 & 113 and Math Worksheet
- Wednesday: Spelling p. 114-115 and Math Worksheet
- Thursday: Spelling p. 116 and Math Worksheet
- Friday: Read 2 times!
Reminders for the Week:
- PE Uniforms on Tuesday and Thursday!
- Please remind your child to bring their library book on Tuesday so that they may check out a new one.
- Friday is a half day and school wide centers.
If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know. Have a fantastic week!
Ms. Manning
