This week in First Grade...

January 30th- February 3

Word Work:
Green Group: Sort with s, t, and st, plus 5 of our word wall words
stop, six, sink, stem, tire, has, had, got, their, than

Blue Group: Sort with bl, br, gr, gl, plus 5 word wall words
glow, grow, block, glue, bread, has, had, got, their, than

Red Group: Sort short o vs. long o (CVC, CVCe, CVVC, CVV)
froze, coal, show, long, slow, globe, coach, blow, grow, whose, snow


Language Arts:
In Language Arts we will continue our genre focus on Folktales/Fables. The children have loved trying to figure out the moral or lesson in the stories and identifying the elements. In Reader’s Workshop during read-to-self and read-with-partner we will be working on the following comprehension strategies: importance of understanding, when readers understand their voices sound smooth, they can picture the story, retell the story easily and just know what they read. In Writer’s Workshop we will start our unit on Small Moments: Personal Narrative Writing. We will learn what a small moment story is and the importance of stretching that small moment across several pages because it is so important. We will learn to listen to how published authors stretch a moment across several pages and we will begin writing our own small moment stories.


Math:
We will begin our unit on money. This unit will last for two weeks. This week we will focus on identifying the penny, nickel, and dime by name and value and describe relationships among them. We will make a K-W-L chart in our math journals for each coin. We will also make a book for each coin and list the different attributes about the coins. The books will go home at the end of the unit. Next week we will talk about the quarter and we need to keep the books for the children to use for activities at the end of next week.


Social Studies:
We will focus this week on how technology has shaped our community. We will talk about how things were done long ago vs. today with our mail, travel, printing, telephones, computers, etc.


Reminders:
*Every Wednesday is our library day. Please remember to turn in your library books.
• Jan. 31 Science Fair
• Feb. 1 Early Release Day at 12:45 pm
• Feb. 4 Celebration of Families, RRISD 9am-2pm
• Feb. 7 General PTA Meeting 7:00 pm (First grade performance)
• Feb. 8 Spirit Night Out at Mimi's Cafe
• Feb. 15 Skate Night, Playland Skate Center 6-8:30 pm
• Feb 20 No School Presidents' Day
• Feb. 28 Spirit Night out at Catfish Parlour
• March 3 Family Dinner Night in the Caraway Cafeteria

Thank You:
Mrs. Johnston – Tuesday Folders
Mr. Score – Computer Lab

Have a great week!
Mrs. C

This week in First grade...

January 23-27

Our two Principal's Pride winners this week are Steven Y. and Erika H.!

Reminders:
Jan. 31 Science Fair
Feb. 1 Early Release Day at 12:45 pm
Feb. 4 Celebration of Families, RRISD 9am-2pm
Feb. 7 General PTA Meeting 7:00 pm
Feb. 8 Spirit Night Out at Mimi's Cafe
Feb. 15 Skate Night, Playland Skate Center 6-8:30 pm
Feb 20 No School Presidents' Day)
Feb. 28 Spirit Night out at Catfish Parlour
March 3 Family Dinner Night in the Caraway Cafeteria

This week in Reading Workshop...
We are learning about Folktales. Today we watched Goldilocks and the Three Bears on Book Flix (available on the Library's web page). We thought about the elements of a fairy tale and made a chart of the elements of a folktale. We will read different Folktales this week and discuss the elements, characters and plot of each tale.

This week in Word Work...
This week we will have our first "real" spelling test. The students have done very well with their practice tests. I've posted the words on the blog according to each group. Your child's list may contain words from the First grade High Frequency List as well as words that fall into their "sound" for the week.

This week in Writer's Workshop...
We will continue working on our Fairy Tales. Our goal is to start editing and revising so we can share our stories in the Author's Chair on Friday!

This week in Math...
We will continue our unit on Geometry this week. We've learned about different 2 demensional shapes and their attributes. This week we will learn about solid shapes or 3 dimensional shapes and their attributes.

This week in Science and Social Studies...
We will finish our unit on Force and Motion with an Inquiry (experiement) about finding location. Later this week we will begin a unit on Economics in Social Studies. We will learn about wants versus needs.

Have a great week!
Mrs. Caballero

Spelling words for the week of January 23rd

Red Group: Red word group (Sort #19 short a vs. Long a –ai, -ay):
stand, slave, they, tray, may, gray, gain, taste, aid, say, shape, past, pray

Blue word group (Blue Group: Sort #23 cr, cl, fl, fr):
clap, light, cry, crack, put, many, other, them, all, house, its

Green word group(Sort #17 sh, ch, wh, th):
whip, chin, ship, them, put, many, other, them, all, house, its

This week we will be assessing for correct spelling of the word. The students will be working on hearing the sounds of the words as we work with them in class.