This week in First grade...

October 29- November 2

Reminders:

Saturday, November 3^rd  Harvest Festival

Wednesday, November 14^th  Thanksgiving Lunch in the Cafeteria

*Parents, I will be out Monday morning with a sick child.  I will be at school in the afternoon but I will be at a Technology Training.  Mrs. Lankford will be my sub.  See you Tuesday!

This week in First grade…

Reading Workshop

During Reading Workshop this week we will explore Halloween Fiction!  We will identify procedural parts of texts as we read fun stories such as It’s Pumpkin Time, The Biggest Pumpkin Ever and Hallowiener!  We will read Time for Kids: Boo to explore non-fiction text that includes current events in and around our community!

Writing Workshop

During Writing Workshop we will continue to learn and practice writing procedural text.  Last week, we wrote “How to’s” as a class to illustrate the steps of a procedure.  This week the students goal will be to independently choose a subject and write a “how to”.  They will use the writing process to complete their own piece of procedural text.  We will also explore the world of adjectives.  We will brainstorm a list of adjectives, describing words, as we complete our writing projects.

Word Work (posted on Tuesday)

First grade High Frequency words:

Green Group:

Blue Group:

Red Group:

Math

This week in math we will be reviewing skills/concepts taught during the first nine weeks of school.  We will apply all the skills/concepts to Halloween problem solving.  Each child will be encouraged to choose a strategy, sometimes two and use their own words to explain their thinking for the problem.  Although this may seem easy, to some it is very difficult to put their thoughts on paper and explain how to solve the problem step by step!

Science

This week during Science we will be exploring and investigating heat as a force of energy.  We will utilize engaging video clips from BrainPopJr and United Streaming to learn.  We will explore energy you can feel, see and hear!  We will use graphic organizers to record our learning and thoughts in our Science Notebook.

Have a great week!!