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First Grade - Week of December 18

 


MARK YOUR CALENDAR

January 8: School Resumes

January 15: No School (Teacher Professional Development)

February 16: Midwinter Break - No School

February 19: Midwinter Break - No School


WEEK AT A GLANCE

Jupiter Presentation: We were so fortunate to have a real life engineer (& dad of one of our first graders) present information all about how his team of hundreds at NASA helped construct, launch, and guide a space probe (Juno) to Jupiter. Below are some pictures from his presentation.



Reading: We’ve been studying how to get Super Smart about Nonfiction Topics. We’ve learned that readers of nonfiction text:


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    Take a Sneak Peek to start learning

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    Stop and study each page

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    Guess what might come next

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    Chat about what’s happening


Word Study: We’ve been studying endings of words. We learned that the ending /-ed/ makes three sounds /t/ /d/ /id/.  We also learned that blends can come at the end of words too, and that those can be different than the ones found at the beginning of words.


Writing: We’ve been learning various ways to teach our readers–

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    Think about questions my readers might have

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    Writing in “Twin Sentences” (ex: Runners wear sneakers. Sneakers protect your feet from getting hurt.

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    Teach with Pictures and Words (zoom in, labels, arrows)

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    Using Number, size, color and shape words


Math: This week students were introduced to our next module in Unit 4. This module will explore open number lines in multiples of 5s and 10s. Students helped guide two frogs (Tad and Polli) along the number line to help them catch a yummy fly! These frogs raced forward and backwards along the number line in distances of 10. We will continue to work on this with 5s when we get back from winter break. 


IMPORTANT NOTES 

 

Math Home Connection: January’s Home Connection is in your child's Home Folder today. Remember this is simply a way for your child to practice what they’re learning at school at home. Take the time to sit with your child and have them show you what they’re learning in math!



Kindness Bingo is in home folders today! 


















































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