I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend of NO HOMEWORK!
We will have the students return their readers and book bags to me on Tuesday when they return to school. The students will read their books to me and then I will decide to move them up according to their fluency. The goal is to be in chapter books by fourth quarter! :)
I have finished their Dibels testing this week and I have a better understanding of their strengths and weaknesses. I will be asking some of your children to meet me for tutoring in the early morning if possible.
We are working very hard on our Rocket Math Challenges. We sent home a sheet to use each night on the level your student is on. Hopefully this is helping them to get faster. Please time them for one minute each time.
This week in 1B
Literature: We are continuing to study stories from
around the world, but this time we are comparing Cinderella stories! We will be
reading the Western version that is very familiar and comparing it to the
Egyptian version (Rhodopis). We will also read a story called “Billy Beg,” a
Cinderella story with an interesting twist – a male main character! J
Spalding: Due to the holiday on Monday, we will only
have 19 words this week! There will be two old words “have” and “are”. These
will help us to review jobs of silent final e and apply job 5 to a new word.
Our Spelling Test will be on Friday as normal! Please note that the
phonograms on the sheet going home every Monday are the phonograms we are
testing on Fridays (on the back of the Spelling Test). Please have your child
practice the sounds of these two phonograms each night! We will also move to
writing our words 3 times, instead of 2. For the third time, your child may
copy the words without markings. Please dictate the words as though it were a
spelling test so that the words are practiced and memorized for the first two
columns. (This means it should not be completed during study hall after school;
math and reading can be done during this time instead!)
Tuesday: today, look, did, like, six, boy, book, by,
have, are
Wednesday: had, over, must, make, street, say, come,
hand, ring
Writing: In Writing with Ease, our stories this week come from the Grimm Brothers: “The Frog Prince”.
Grammar: We are very excited to learn a new jingle
this week, as we begin our study of verbs! We will be learning about action and
linking verbs, with more of an emphasis on action verbs this week. Students
will identify verbs in sentences and create phrases with subject noun and verb
pairs. We will play some sorting games with nouns and verbs to get students up
and moving as well!
Poem: We are beginning a new poem this week called
“The Pasture” by Robert Frost. We will study stanza 1 this week, stanza 2 the
following week, and practice the poem in its entirety and recite at the end of
the 3rd week. (Recitations on September 22 and 23)
Idiom: Review of our first three idioms: Sour Grapes,
Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing, and Golden Rule
Math:
This week we will
practice writing addition sentences and stories and students will work together
to create their own numbers stories. We will also be moving towards even better
mastery of addition as we practice our addition facts and begin to commit
number combinations for numbers 1-10 to memory. I'm looking forward to using
many different visuals and hands on activities this week to help everyone stay
engaged and enthused.
Science:
This week we will study habitats and the plants and animals
that live in them. We will be focusing on polar regions and rainforests. We
will review some of the habitats that we have learned about so far, and we will
find similarities and differences between them. We will also continue to add on
to our world habitats mobiles!
This week we will finish learning about the landforms of the
earth. We will discuss and recognize the equator, northern and southern
hemisphere, and the prime meridian. We will read a book about our
individual location on the globe, and then do an activity in relation to the
information.
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