This week in First grade...

Oct. 19-23

IMPORTANT REMINDER

Monday: Reading bag Homework comes home

Tuesday: Tuesday folders come home. Please return signed Tuesday folders every Wednesday morning.
*Library Day! Please help your child remember to bring their library books.
Wednesday: 

Thursday: 
Friday: Reading bags and homework are due!
Saturday, Oct 24: Harvest festival 4-7 pm. See you there!

This week:

Out of the Box Homework: This week in math we are going to learn about telling time.  With help from a parent write a short story to share on Friday about a schedule you have.  For example, "We get home at 5:00pm.  We make dinner and eat at 6:00pm.  Then we read a story, brush our teeth and go to bed at 8:00pm."  If you want to video record your story you can, then email it to me!

 READING

This week we will read expository/non-fiction books.  Writers of nonfiction books are experts in an area and therefore they write the expository text to teach us about that subject. We will learn that the purpose of reading expository books is to get information. We might have questions before reading a non-fiction book, or questions during reading the non-fiction book, or even after reading it. These questions will help us to read more and find out more. We will learn about the features of non-fiction such as: table of contents, index, glossary, real photos, labels, and captions.  

WRITING

We will continue revising our stories for one more week.  Ask your child what revising is and what is the purpose of revising.  They should be able to explain it to you.  We are learning to reread our stories carefully a couple of times to make sure that our stories make sense.  In the process, we are learning to add some more words or take off a few that are not needed.  We are checking for sight words misspelling, neat writing and correct punctuation.  Some of us are even adding dialogues in quotation marks to make our stories more interesting. I am so proud of my young writers!  

MATH
This week we will learn to tell time.  We will learn to tell time to the hour using a digital and an analog clock.  We will learn about the hands, the hour hand (the short hand), and the minute hand(the long hand) and how they move: The minute hand makes one full turn while the hour hand moves slowly from one numeral to another. Later on in the year, we will learn to tell the time in half-hour.

Photo by Hazel

SOCIAL STUDIES
This week we will learn about a few historical figures such as Alexander graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Garrett Morgan, and Richards Allen who influenced our nation by their individualism and inventiveness. We will learn about their inventions and the contributions that these important people made to our lives.