Friday, December 20, 2013

Week of Jan. 7

No school Monday, January 6- teacher work day  We’ll see everyone on Tuesday the 7th!

Our Encore schedule so that your kiddo remembers tennis shoes-VERY important

Mon.
Tues.
Wed.
Thurs.
Fri.
Thomas
PE
music
PE
art
Rotation with PE
Graviett
PE
art
PE
music
Herreman
art
PE
music
PE
Johnson
music
PE
art
PE

In Language Arts this week, we will…
·        Celebrate our writing!
·        Begin our nonfiction writing unit
·        Use our schema and experiences to make good predictions
·        Change predictions as needed
·        Spell high frequency words
·        Sort words to learn word patterns and help our spelling
·        Build our vocabulary with a weekly read-aloud.

In Math, we will…
·        Apply touch math when adding 2 numbers
·        Use the strategy of counting on when adding
·        Continue to solve our problems of the day.  We use “CUBES” strategies.  (Circle the numbers, Underline key words, Box the question, Ex out extra information, and Show our work)
·        Visit our math stations. Each station will have a math activity that reinforces concepts that we are currently learning or have previously learned. Your child will also be able to visit “First in Math” at some point this week.

In Science, we will learn about living and nonliving things.  We’ll also investigate the food chain.
Upcoming Dates:


***Here are high frequency words that first graders need to be able to SPELL correctly on a consistent basis by the end of the second semester.
Second Semester High Frequency
Spelling Words
an
are
because
from
of
one
play
said
that
there
they
was
went
were
when
with
your





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