Sunday, February 22, 2015

This week in First Grade...

Feb 23-27
It's going to get cold this week!  Hopefully, cross your fingers, this will be the last cold snap of the season!  We will continue to go outside unless it is below 32 (or the wind chill is below 32) so please send your child with warm coats and other appropriate items!  


PHOTOS NEEDED
This week we will be working on timelines in social studies and would love for the students to put some of their life events in chronological order.  Please send 3 photos of your child, at different ages by Wednesday 2/25.  For example, one from the time they were a baby, one when they were a toddler or in pre-school and one recent photo.  Please keep the photos 4x6 or smaller size.  We will be gluing them to construction paper, so please don't send any that you want back in perfect condition.  If it is easier to email them to me I would be happy to print them out at school. This will be such a fun project!


SIX FLAG READING LOGS
Six Flag reading Logs (optional) are due on Wednesday, February 25th.  Wouldn't it be fun to try to meet there and go together?!?!


 REMINDERS
Monday: reading folders come home.
Tuesday: Tuesday folders come home.  Please  return the signed Tuesday folder the next day.
Wednesday:  
Thursday: Talent Show: Canyon Vista Middle School at 6:00 PM
FridayLibrary Day.  All library books are due by 8:00 AM
Homework is due!

READ ACROSS AMERICA WITH DR. SEUSS
This week we will honor the life and work of Dr. Seuss.  Read Across America is a nationwide reading celebration that takes place annually for Dr. Seuss's Birthday.  We will read a biography about Dr. Suess and learn about his life.  We will also read some of his most beloved stories such as The Cat in the Hat, Wacky Wednesday, Green Eggs and Ham and Oh! The Places You'll Go! We will retell the stories, make connections and discuss the characters.


WRITING
In writing we will be writing stories with elements of realistic events and imagined events.  Being motivated by Dr. Seuss writing, we will write stories about incorporating our own ideas. Our stories could be a small moment in our lives that are blended with some exaggeration, or untrue events that could spice up our stories. Oh, the Places our stories will go!!


MATH
This week we will wrap up our unit on place value.  We will continue to work on number lines and place numbers on a number line based on their value.  We will use the place value to compare whole numbers up to 99 using comparative language such is greater than or less than. We have had good practice in the last couple of weeks on composing numbers (joining parts to make a whole number) or decomposing a number (breaking a number into parts).  This week, we will work on fact families which includes joining the parts together to make whole and decomposing the whole into parts.


SOCIAL STUDIES
Last week we learned about the life and inventions of two great inventors, Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison.  This week we will learn about another inventor, Garrett Morgan.  We will also learn and work on Timeline which is a picture of events arranged in chronological order.

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