Monday, November 30, 2015

This week in First grade...

Nov. 30-Dec 4

What a wonderful, glorious week of family, friends and sleeping in!  We hope you enjoyed your time last week as much as the Caballero's did!  We have 14 days of school until the next break! We're going to make it great!

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Early Release Day
Tuesday, Dec 1st- Library Day! Please remind your child to return their books by 8:00am.
                                       Family Art Night 6:30pm-7:30pmWednesday, Dec 2nd - Early Release Day.  Dismissal is at 12:45
Thursday, Dec 3rd - Mrs. C off campus at a NextGen Training
                                Miss Lee's last day with us!

Monday, December 7th- Field Trip to the Austin Nature Center
FIELD TRIP
Our first field trip to the Austin Nature Center is on Monday, December 7th. Thank you all for sending back the permission slips on time.  Your child will need to bring a lunch for our picnic after we return to school.  This will be after our regular lunch time. 


IMPORTANT REMINDERS
TuesdayTuesday folders come home. Please return signed Tuesday folders every Wednesday morning. 
Reading bags will come home this week.  We are reading 2 stories (one fiction and one nonfiction) from RAZ Kids.  There will be a small strip of paper in the Reading Response Notebook. 
Wednesday: Early Release Day 12:45pm
                     Field Trip permission slips due today. 
Thursday
Friday:


This week:


READING
This week we will dive deeper into fiction. We will read a variety of fairy tales and learn about the elements in fairy tales. Fairy tales are stories that contain many unique elements. They usually start with "Once upon a time" and end with "They lived happily ever after". There are good vs. evil characters and good always defeats the evil. Another definitive element of fairy tales is the royalty and magic.  We will look at the plot of the story and retell the important events in the story in the order in which they occurred. We will also determine the setting of the story (where the story takes place). We will determine the main characters and try to understand their emotions and actions in the story. 



WRITING
 In writing, we will make our own expert list, things that we are really experts at and have lots of information about. We will pick a topic from our expert list to write about. Our purpose as expository writers is to inform others about what we know. 



MATH
We will review subtraction and then move on to a new strategy for addition called doubles.  Knowing the doubles will help us to do addition faster.  We will practice the doubles from 1-10. We will then apply our strategies in math problem solving.



SOCIAL STUDIES
As we approach the holidays, we will learn about cultures, customs, traditions, and celebrations. This week we will focus on the celebrations of Diwali, Christmas, and Hanukkah.  

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