First Grade Home to School Connections
Week of April 27th
--Enchanted Engineering STEM Night at LaPerche
was a great success! We hope you and
your child had a great time.
*****Special THANKS to our Guest Mystery
Readers who came to read to our class during Reading Week. *****
***SAVE THE DATE:
We are planning a YOUNG AUTHORS’ MOTHER’S DAY VICTORIAN TEA
on Friday, May 8th at 9:30. Please RSVP.***
Writing
Essential
Question: What is Opinion Writing?
An opinion is the way you think or feel about something.
Write opinion pieces in which
they introduce the topic they are writing about (hook the reader), state an
opinion, supply two reasons for the opinion, and provide some sense of closure.
Please
bring in your COLLECTION in your zip lock bag.
We will be judging our Collections and choosing BEST IN SHOW. Students
will be writing opinions about their collections and explaining their judgments
about their choices in convincing ways. Opinion writers write with lots of
reasons, not just one and they support
those reasons with detailed specific observations, not just with generalities.
Pleas
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Essential Question: What are vowel-consonant-e words?
1.
Has the vowel-consonant-e combination
2.
The e is silent
3.
The first vowel has a long sound
Rule:
Magic e is silent. It kicks the vowel
and makes it shouts its name (long vowel).
***** Please
let me know if you need a copy sent home.
Trick Words…friend-nothing-another-other. Word cards are available on
Fundations site with unit pack. Create FLASH CARDS at home. Continue
practicing spelling and writing these words. They appear with high frequency in
your children’s readings and are used when they are writing. Knowing them with automaticity assists fluency
in both reading and writing.
Vocabulary:
equal parts, fraction, part,
whole, one half, one third, and one foubrth
Check out
the Math Connects website for games to play at home ……
Practice Math Facts on https://www.xtramath.org/home/student_sign_in
access code for each
student was sent
home.
Ten Marks Homework on Line
Life Cycles
Essential
Question: What is a life cycle?
VEGETABLES…..We continue to work on our
plant unit. The students each planted a vegetable. Every week we will be observing its growth. We
will measure its growth and observe the changes and write about them in
our observation journals.
