Dear Parents, May 9, 2016
I hope all had a wonderful Mother’s Day and that you enjoyed your gift!
This week in first grade, we are learning…
Language Arts: We are continuing on with Theme 10. Our reading strategy this week is summarizing. The comprehension skill that will help us with this is sequence of events. The ability to organize our thoughts through what happens and when in our story helps us summarize the main ideas of the story we are reading. Our phonics focus this week continues to be on r-controlled words but with a focus on ar, as in star and hard. Our grammar focus is on describing words- taste, smell, and feel.
Spelling: We will be practicing how to spell words with ar. Just like last week, these words do not come from our regular spelling book. They will be introduced on Monday.
Math: We will be continuing Unit 9, which is all about fractions this week. We will be wrapping up this unit by early next week!
Religion: We will be reading from our religion book this week. We will discuss how the Holy Spirit helps the church.
Science: In science we are still learning about matter! This week we will discuss liquids.
Social Studies: We are working on Unit 5: My Country, My Heroes. This week we will be learning how to read a diagram!
Homework for the Week:
- Monday: Math Worksheet and Rainbow Write 2X
- Tuesday: 6 Sentences
- Wednesday: 6 Sentences
- Thursday: Math Worksheet
- Friday: Read 2 Times
Reminders for the Week:
- Don’t forget to return your child’s Santa Barbara Zoo permission slip!
- 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.
- Wednesday is free dress. All money raised will be donated to earthquake relief in Ecuador
- Wednesday is the Powder Puff Football Game!
- Friday is the Jog-a-Thon and a noon dismissal! Please remember to fill out the Jog-a-thon envelope and please make sure your child is in PE uniform this day!
Have a great week!
Ms. Manning
