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IMPORTANT REMINDERS
Monday:
Tuesday: Mrs. Caballero will be at a workshop. Mrs. Lieurance will be teaching my class.
Tuesday folders come home. Please sign the folders and return the next day.
Tuesday folders come home. Please sign the folders and return the next day.
*We have Library this week. Please help your child remember to return their books.
Wednesday:
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday:
GROWTH MINDSET
We have been working on how to stay positive and never say, "I can't", but rather, "I can't, YET". This week we will think about what can happen when we keep trying. Perseverance is an important character trait. We will learn about a Penguin who was bound and determined to fly and a little boy named Austin who kept trying until he succeeded. There are many individuals in history that we will learn about as well!
Here is what we will be doing this week:
READING
This week in reading we will practice “read to someone”. Read to someone will help us to become a stronger reader, practice our fluency and enjoy reading. We will learn how to sit closely to our reading partner, so our elbows and knees touch. This close proximity will allow us to read with a quiet voice so only our reading partner can hear us. It would also allow both of us to see the words and the pictures. We will learn how reading partners take turns choosing a book to read and how we can take turns reading a paragraph or page of the book.
HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT YOUR CHILD'S LEARNING AT HOME?
The Spicewood Springs public library has a variety of "I read, you read" books, where there is a harder paragraph for the parent to read and an easier one for the child to read. But you can practice partner reading with almost any book. Choose one your child is interested in and take turns reading!
The Spicewood Springs public library has a variety of "I read, you read" books, where there is a harder paragraph for the parent to read and an easier one for the child to read. But you can practice partner reading with almost any book. Choose one your child is interested in and take turns reading!
WRITING
This week in writing we will continue working on our stories. The children have done a great job illustrating and writing about some real events in their lives. We will learn how to write in complete sentences. A complete sentence is a complete thought that tells who or what the sentence is about and what happened. It starts with a capital letter and ends with a punctuation mark. We will also learn how to use our word wall list to spell the first grade sight words correctly. Some other skills that we will be working on this week include saying the words slowly in order to hear the beginning, the middle and the ending sounds in each word as well as trying hard to spell words.
Please encourage your child to form the letters correctly. When writing the letters of alphabet, we always start from the top to the bottom. Some children have the habit of forming the letters from the bottom to the top and this will affect their handwriting as well as speed in writing. When writing their names, please encourage your child to practice writing his/her names neatly starting with a capital letter and then lowercase letters for the rest. I will send handwriting paper home at conference time.
MATH
This week we will continue working on teen numbers, comparing teen numbers and ordering them from the least quantity to the most quantity. We will work with dimes and pennies since dimes represent a group of 10 pennies and could represent a ten frame or a ten stick and pennies represent ones. We will compose and decompose numbers up to 20 as so many tens and so many ones. We will apply our knowledge of teen numbers and comparison in math word problem solving.
This week we will continue working on teen numbers, comparing teen numbers and ordering them from the least quantity to the most quantity. We will work with dimes and pennies since dimes represent a group of 10 pennies and could represent a ten frame or a ten stick and pennies represent ones. We will compose and decompose numbers up to 20 as so many tens and so many ones. We will apply our knowledge of teen numbers and comparison in math word problem solving.
SCIENCE
In science we will learn about the properties of objects. We will learn that we can use our five senses such as sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste to observe and explore objects around us. Properties are characteristics of objects. These characteristics include color, texture, size, mass and shape. We will use some science tools such as hand lenses/magnifying glass to observe the properties of objects closely.
In science we will learn about the properties of objects. We will learn that we can use our five senses such as sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste to observe and explore objects around us. Properties are characteristics of objects. These characteristics include color, texture, size, mass and shape. We will use some science tools such as hand lenses/magnifying glass to observe the properties of objects closely.
This week could be a little wet so keep your eye on the weather!
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