Reminders:
Early Release is Wednesday, September 25th at 12:45pm
Conferences begin Monday, September 30th
School Picture day Thursday, October 3rd
Student Holiday Monday, October 14th
Math:
In this unit, students will consolidate prerequisite skills as a
continuation of the math skills they began to develop in kindergarten.
Students will practice and demonstrate their ability to
subitize, or instantly recognize sets of objects (such as dots) in patterned
arrangements and to tell how many without counting. Students will continue to
develop their conceptual understanding of the relationships between the numbers
1-10 and the anchor numbers of 5 and 10 and will use five-frames and ten-frames
in problem solving. Students will practice and develop an understanding of how
to compose and decompose numbers 0 – 120 using concrete and pictorial representations. Students will
count up and back between 1 and 120.
Students will continue to develop their ability to conceptualize
a number as being made up of two or more parts and their understanding of the
part-part-whole model and related number relationships. They will also continue
to explore, in this unit and throughout the year, a variety of
addition/subtraction problem situations including joining, separating,
part-part-whole, and comparing, with different unknowns: result/change/start,
or part/whole or difference, in order to develop an understanding of the
operations of addition and subtraction. Sums and differences are limited to 20.
Students will generate a problem solving situation from a given number sentence
and use concrete and pictorial models to solve problems using addition and
subtraction with whole numbers to 20.
Reading
Workshop:
This week in Reading Workshop we will focus on
Reading-to-Someone strategies and creating an anchor chart to review in our
classroom. We will learn how
to choose books for partner reading when we want to share the same book and how
to read with someone when we read different stories. We will learn and practice "I Read, You Read" working on the
reading strategy summarizing what our partner reads. This will take good listening skills as we learn how to
summarize what our partner reads to us. You can practice this technique at home asking
your child to teach you how to 'Read to Someone' at home! We will continue our reading one-on-one
reading assessments this week hoping next week we will begin our guided reading
lessons.
Writing
Workshop:
As we continue to
dig deeper into the writing process, we will learn more about writing complete
sentences that begin with capital letters and end with punctuation. We will
learn that every sentence must contain a noun and a verb. We will practice using
finger spaces between our words and stretching out each sound in our words in
order to spell the best that we can. Believe me, we are building and
strengthening our skills in Writer's Workshop!
Science:
In Science we will learn continue to
learn about matter. Matter is everything
around us. Matter can be observed,
described, and classified based on its physical characteristics. Matter exists as a solid, liquid and
gas. A solid is a matter that keeps its
shape. A liquid is a matter that flows,
and takes the shape of its container.
Gas is a form of matter that takes up space like air.
Habit
#3: Put First Things First:
Habit #3
teaches kids to set priorities and to do the most important things first. Talk with your child about priorities they have
at home (cleaning up their toys, brushing their teeth, etc…) and remind them to Put First
Things First at home.
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