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