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First Grade - Week of March 4

 

MARK YOUR CALENDAR

March 12: Parent Teacher Conferences

March 13: Irish Dancers Visit Lakeside

March 22: Beauty and the Beast School Performance (Walking to Wealthy Elementary)

March 29: No School (Spring Break)

April 8: School Resumes


IMPORTANT INFORMATION

“March is Reading Month” Dress-Up Days

March 15: Camp Out with a Good Book - Bring a flashlight and wear pajamas 

March 22: Reading Gives You a Bright Future - Dress in bright colors


Parent Teacher Conferences: I am excited for parent teacher conferences on March 7 and March 12. Here is the list of conference times. Please let me know if you need to make any changes. 

Running Club: Get ready to be Part of the Pride! Running Club will be starting April 9 when we return from Spring Break. Please click here for all of the fun information!


WEEK AT A GLANCE

Literacy Workshop

Opinion Writing: We started to think of topics for our reviews. We’re writing about the best toys, movies, games, restaurants, vacations, cities, and more! We’ve discussed that to convince readers of our opinion:

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    We need to speak to readers about the important information (where? When? what?)

Ask your child what topic they tried to convince their reader of…


Reading/Phonics: We’ve continued to focus on the vowel teams we’ve learned; paying special attention to the vowel teams OU and OW this week. We practiced using snap words that we’re familiar with to make new words with these vowel teams. This week we used /out/ to make: shout, spout, pout, about, and snout. We use /down/ to make: town, frown, brown, crown, and clown. We then tried to pay special attention that we were getting these sounds right in our own writing, as well. We also focused on slowing down when we get to longer, harder words and breaking them apart into smaller pieces. 

Math: We continued to focus on addition and subtraction story problems and fact strategies to 20. We made double-flap dot cards and picture cards and wrote sets of fact family equations and story problems to match. We also modeled and solved addition combinations to 20 on our number racks, identifying which strategies work easier for different combinations. 









































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