First Grade Home to School Connections
Week of March 30th
HAPPY EASTER and PASSOVER!!!!
READING
WEEK….April 13th
Wednesday,
April 15--Enchanted
Engineering STEM Night at LaPerche from 6:00-8:00--Each classroom will present
a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) challenge. Students
will work with their families to complete the various challenges found
throughout the classrooms. This will be a hands-on engaging evening for
all ages.
Many other events have been planned.
It is also a time for parents to come in and read to their child’s class as a
“Guest Mystery Reader”. If you would like to read to the class, a note will be
coming home this week to sign up.
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We are finishing up Unit 10…
Closed Syllables that have five sounds.
Students are working on words
with suffixes…s-ed-ing.
NO SPELLING HOMEWORK this week.
Trick Word
cards are available on Fundations site with unit packs. 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.
***Practice identifying and spelling trick
words. They appear frequently in reading
and students need to spell them correctly in their writing. Try to use trick
words in your spelling sentences too. A Fundations word Wall is available to
you on my website. Run it off and keep it available for your child when they
are doing their homework especially writing spelling sentences. Students need
to SPELL TRICK WORDS correctly.
Math Connects …Our
unit is Understand Place Value
**Numbers and Operation
in Base Ten**
Add within 100, including adding a two-digit number and a
one-digit number, and adding a two-digit number and a multiple of 10, using
concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of
operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate
the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used. Understand
that in adding two-digit numbers, one adds tens and tens, ones and ones; and
sometimes it is necessary to compose a ten.
Key
Vocabulary: tens, ones, round, greater than, before, after, between and regroup
Check out
the Math Connects website for games to play at home at
Facts FLASH… Students continue work with a partner using addition
subtraction flash cards. We are working on Fact Families as well. 3+2=5 2+3=5 so 5-3=2 5-2=3
Students
are still being timed for addition and subtraction to 10. Practice at home. Students should score 24 or higher out of 30
problems of 15 subtractions and 15 additions for 2 minutes. Students who have
achieved this standard are now working on fluency to 20.
MATH COMPUTATION: We continue to work on adding (regrouping) and
subtracting double digit numbers.
Practice Math Facts on https://www.xtramath.org/home/student_sign_in
access code for each
student was sent home.
TEN Marks Homework is online.
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.
Life Cycles
Essential
Question: What is a life cycle?
VEGETABLES…..We will be working on our
plant unit. This week the students will plant a vegetable. Every week they will be observing its growth.
We measure its growth and observe the changes and write about them in our observation journals. BUTTERFLIES…..To continue with our life
cycle unit the students will be observing how caterpillars go through
metamorphosis from caterpillar to butterfly.
This also takes approximately 21 days.
Students will be observing the cycle of Painted Butterflies. This will
begin after vacation.
