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First Grade - Week of February 12

 


MARK YOUR CALENDAR

February 16: Midwinter Break - No School - Teacher Professional Development

February 19: Midwinter Break - No School

March 7: Parent Teacher Conferences
March 12: Parent Teacher Conferences



WEEK AT A GLANCE


ELA: We started new units this week in all our ELA content areas. 


In reading and phonics we’ve been discovering vowel teams and figuring out the sounds they make when we find them in words together. The two we focused on this week were EA and EE. We discovered that they make the long E sound. Help point this out to your child as you read together at home. 


We’ve also been reviewing the Tools for Solving Hard Words and Word Detectives Take a Closer Look strategies we were introduced to earlier this year. We’ve been focusing on not just trying ONE of these strategies but MANY of these strategies until we get the word right!


New snap words this week: away, easy, 


In writing we wrote our INFORMATIONAL ON DEMAND which will help me to evaluate your child’s writing in this genre. We started to explore and judge the collections we brought to get our minds ready for expressing our opinions.


MATH: This week students focused on fractions. Students folded and cut paper to decompose shapes and played a bingo game that explored halves, fourths, and thirds. Students are developing an understanding of fractions as parts of a whole. 


SEL: Was It an Accident? - In this week’s lesson, your child learned helpful ways to respond to a problem caused by accident. They practiced phrases for apologizing: "I’m sorry. It was an accident. Are you okay? How can I help?"

Try This at Home: When accidents occur at home, take time to apologize and encourage your child to do the same, using the new phrases they learned at school this week.














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