Nov 10-14
Our field trip to Zach Scott Theater was fantastic! We had lunch in our classroom before departing on the bus! We sat together and enjoyed the play that was about 50 minutes long. If you get a chance the Zach Scott Theater puts on
This week, due to a project (Pilgrim Doll Project) we will be sending home, there will be no reading homework. While I will read with kiddos everyday during our guided reading group, I will not send the reading homework home. I want to make sure you and your child have enough time to complete the project by Wednesday, November 19th. Please see below for details.
IMPORTANT REMINDERS
Our field trip to Zach Scott Theater was fantastic! We had lunch in our classroom before departing on the bus! We sat together and enjoyed the play that was about 50 minutes long. If you get a chance the Zach Scott Theater puts on
This week, due to a project (Pilgrim Doll Project) we will be sending home, there will be no reading homework. While I will read with kiddos everyday during our guided reading group, I will not send the reading homework home. I want to make sure you and your child have enough time to complete the project by Wednesday, November 19th. Please see below for details.
THE PILGRIM DOLL PROJECT
As we are approaching Thanks Giving, this week we will read the story of Molly's Pilgrim by Barbara Cohen. This beautiful story tells us how recent immigrant Molly leads her third-grade class to discover that it takes all kinds of pilgrims to make a Thanksgiving.
This week, in the Tuesday folders, your child will bring a wooden doll with instruction and a few research questions. Your child will interview you and ask you questions about the first pilgrim/ immigrant in your family that came to this country. Please help your child complete the research questions and have them write the answers with pencils in complete sentences in their own handwriting. You may help your child with spelling and sentence structure, but please do not write the answers for them. After that you and your child will dress the pilgrim doll with the traditional clothing of the country that your pilgrim came from. I will send some photos from previous years so you will have an idea.
This project (the research questions and the pilgrim doll) is due By Wednesday, Nov 19th. Each child will get to present their doll on Nov. 20th and 21st. This project by far is one of our most beloved projects in first grade and every year, we, first grade teachers can't wait to see the final product! Have fun crafting and creating with your child!
Monday: No reading folders. But please have your child read daily.
Tuesday: Tuesday folders come home. Please return signed Tuesday folders on Wednesday morning. No Math Homework this week!
Tuesday, November 11th: Veteran's Day is observed.
Friday: Library Day! All library books are due by Friday morning at 8:00.
Tuesday: Tuesday folders come home. Please return signed Tuesday folders on Wednesday morning. No Math Homework this week!
Tuesday, November 11th: Veteran's Day is observed.
Friday: Library Day! All library books are due by Friday morning at 8:00.
Here is what we will be doing this week:
READING and WRITING
This week as part of our non-fiction reading and writing, we will start our research on The First Thanksgiving and spend this week writing facts about Thanksgiving, the Mayflower ship, the Pilgrims and the Native Americans. As we learn facts about thanksgiving, we will record our facts and make a book about Thanksgiving. We will create an "All About the First Thanksgiving" book to share with our families!
This week as part of our non-fiction reading and writing, we will start our research on The First Thanksgiving and spend this week writing facts about Thanksgiving, the Mayflower ship, the Pilgrims and the Native Americans. As we learn facts about thanksgiving, we will record our facts and make a book about Thanksgiving. We will create an "All About the First Thanksgiving" book to share with our families!
MATH
We will continue counting by tens and ones using dimes and pennies and apply our knowledge in problem solving. Now we know two digit numbers so well and we know what each digit in a two digit number means and what value each digit has, we will practice making 10 more, or 10 less. For example, the children will be able to show 57 with manipulatives and pictorial models and then add 10 more, which will be 67 or take off 10, which will be 47. We will also work on different combinations that make 10, such as 4 and 6, 3 and 7, 2 and 8 and so on.
SCIENCE
This week in science we will learn about different forms of energy such as light, heat and sound. We will discuss the importance of energy in everyday life and how scientists use energy to invent objects that improve our daily lives.
We will continue counting by tens and ones using dimes and pennies and apply our knowledge in problem solving. Now we know two digit numbers so well and we know what each digit in a two digit number means and what value each digit has, we will practice making 10 more, or 10 less. For example, the children will be able to show 57 with manipulatives and pictorial models and then add 10 more, which will be 67 or take off 10, which will be 47. We will also work on different combinations that make 10, such as 4 and 6, 3 and 7, 2 and 8 and so on.
SCIENCE
This week in science we will learn about different forms of energy such as light, heat and sound. We will discuss the importance of energy in everyday life and how scientists use energy to invent objects that improve our daily lives.
Have a great week! The weather is going to turn cold tomorrow so please send your child with a coat!!
Mrs. Caballero
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