I hope you all had a terrific week off with family and friends! Below is a sneak peek at some of our activities for the week.
Word Wall/Spelling: Our new words for this week are: both, only, who, done, & after. We currently have over 100 words on our Word Wall! Our spelling words for this week will be words that go along with our Weather Unit. The children will pick eight words that they want to work on from our weather words chart in the classroom. We will go back to working on a specific skill next week.
Reading: We will continue to discuss 'character traits' this week as readers. While reading stories we will pay attention to what characters say and how they act. This tells us a lot about who the character is. We are learning that 'adjectives' are words that can describe some of the characters we are reading about. We are also learning that characters sometimes change throughout the story.
Writing: We are beginning to write persuasive reviews as first grade writers. This week we will practice reading reviews about toys, restaurants, books... We will notice what the review writers do to convince the reader of his/her opinion. Try reading some reviews at home this week! Notice how many 'stars' were given during the review and if you agree or disagree. You can check out some reviews of toys and games online. Amazon often has many reviews!
Math: We will work on reading, writing, counting, and skip counting to 120 this week! As first graders, we will skip count by 2s, 5s, & 10s. We will also practice some additional tricky skip counting as well for fun! :) During our math activities, we will work with charts to 120 and notice patterns in the rows and columns.
Reminders: We will be celebrating the 100th Day of School this week! Please wear a decorated
t-shirt and send in collections of 100 items. We will work with our collections throughout the week and send them home on Friday.
Thank you for your ongoing support! I'm looking forward to a fun week in first grade :)
Sincerely,
Eileen Browne
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