I hope you all had a terrific weekend. I have to be honest, I'm a bit envious of my some of my family members who are buried in snow in the New York City and NJ area. Our first graders are also hoping that we get some snow soon!
Below are some highlights regarding our learning for this week.
Word Wall & Spelling: We have close to 100 words on our Word Wall! This week we will add five new words: want, oh, saw, has, & because. During spelling, we will be working on the 'oo' pattern. 'oo' makes different sounds depending on the words. Ex: soon, noon, spoon...book, look, shook, good, hood... We will practice reading and writing these words all week.
Reading: We are back in the routine of working in our guided reading groups and Daily Five Literacy rotations each day. Please be sure to send back any books that your child brings home to read. These books are shared by many different students and teachers in our building. We have been reading a lot of nonfiction books and have been working on retelling facts and answering questions to check our comprehension. You can try this at home too! Though we will continue reading nonfiction texts as part of our science unit, we will also begin learning about character traits when reading fictional stories.
Writing: We have just wrapped up our nonfiction 'all about' teaching books. The children did a terrific job during this unit. We will begin our next unit this week ~ opinions and writing reviews. Please read the letter that is sent home regarding 'collections'. We will be using collections to help us with this writing unit. Thank you for your support! :)
Math: We just wrapped up topic 5 and are now beginning topic 6 ~ strategies for subtraction facts to 20. Knowing addition facts will help the children work through subtraction problems more successfully. We will practice related facts and fact families throughout this unit. Ex: 7+5=12 and 5+7=12 so 12-7=5 and 12-5=7!
Science: We are working on our weather unit. This week we will learn about wind and temperature as we track the weather each day. We will talk about the tools used to measure these concepts and conduct some of our own experiments. We are really hoping for some snow!!!
I am looking forward to a fun week in our first grade classroom. As always, please contact me with any questions or concerns.
Sincerely,
Eileen Browne
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