This week in First grade {April 23-27}...

Word Work: (Bossy R)= ar, or, er, ir Red: forget, quarter, sport, short, sparkle, scar, sister, first, vampire, tiger Blue: farm, bark, yard, smart, star, fork, corn, sort, short, horse Green: fort, port, sort, for, horn, cart, tar, bar, park, hard *Bossy R words are R controlled vowels. The r make the vowel (vowel+R) say a different sound Language Arts: This week in writing workshop, we will review small moments and introduce “Tiny Moments”. Your child will continue to share published papers on Friday in our Author’s Chair and take them home in the Tuesday folder. Please remember that each child will complete the process at different levels and speed so there may be some weeks you won’t see a completed piece of writing in your child’s Tuesday folder and other weeks you may see more than one. For reading workshop we will focus on the comprehension skills of inferring and visualizing as we read poetry. My goals for this week are for your child to understand what is means to infer, infer the meaning of poems by merging their background knowledge with clues from the text, and grow to cherish the sound of words and the rhythm of language in poetry. Silkworms: It looks like we may have silkworms who are bums! We are still in need of Mulberry leaves for our little guys. We started with about 40 worms and I believe we are down to 7-9. We don't have any that have spun their cocoon yet so we'll go observe other classes to see the change. MATH: We are continuing our unit on subtraction strategies. This unit introduces the “THINK ADDITION” strategy for the Count On Subtraction facts. The facts covered in this strategy are related to their partner facts covered in the Count On Addition strategy. Each Count On Subtraction fact and its Turnaround subtraction fact form a fact family with their addition partner fact. This unit also reinforces the Addition Count On strategy and the Addition Use Doubles strategies that the children have already learned. For example: Addition has turnaround facts such as 2+6=8 and 6+2=8, subtraction has partner facts such as 8-6=2 and 8-2=6. Addition facts and subtraction facts that involve the same parts in total form fact families. This unit will continue for several more weeks as we dive into more complex thinking strategies and problem solving associated with subtraction strategies. SCIENCE: This week we will study birds, mammals, reptiles and fish. We will discuss their body parts, what they eat, how they move, their life cycles, and how they are dependent on their environment. All work will be recorded in their science notebooks in class. IMPORTANT DATES AND REMINDERS: Tuesday: Library day. Please remind your child to return their library books so your child can check out a new book.* · April 26th – Field Trip (please bring an all disposable lunch to school) · April 24th – 26th – STAAR Testing – No visitors allowed in the building · April 27th - 6-7pm Family Fun Night · May 2nd - Early Release Day 12:45pm · May 7-11th - National Teacher Appreciation Week · May 9th - Natl. Walk & Bike to School Day · May 11th - Field Day Have a great week! Mrs. Caballero