Weeks of: 10/26/20 and 11/2/20
Language Arts:
High Frequency Words: if, she, my, big, you, not, am, has, one
Skills we are covering during these 2 weeks:
Math
Go Math! lessons we are covering during these 2 weeks:
Skills to be practicing that will be assessed throughout 1st Quarter & reported on the 1Q Report Card:
Reminders
Upcoming Events
Language Arts:
High Frequency Words: if, she, my, big, you, not, am, has, one
Skills we are covering during these 2 weeks:
- Understanding that there are different types of texts and noticing different things about them.
- Noticing and understanding the story's simple plot with a problem and a solution.
- Inferring characters' intentions, feelings, and motivations using the text and pictures.
- Offering solutions and explanations for the story's problem.
- Using academic language to talk about literary features such as beginning, character, problem, solution, ending.)
- Gaining new information from both the print and pictures.
- Identifying and discussing interesting information from the text with a partner.
- Using academic language to talk about print features such as illustration, label, drawing, caption, and nonfiction).
- Understanding the setting and inferring why it is important.
- Explaining and describing the people, events, places, and things in a text.
- Using new vocabulary when discussing a text.
- Predicting what will happen in a text.
- Telling the important events of a text.
- Understanding that there are two kinds of letters: one is uppercase and one is lowercase.
- Understanding that some uppercase and lowercase letters can look the same or can look different.
- Matching sounds and letters in words
- Identifying some letters are consonants.
- Knowing the letter q is almost always followed by a u.
- Identifying beginning sounds of words.
- Writing "all about" teaching books.
Math
Go Math! lessons we are covering during these 2 weeks:
- Chapter 2 Test, Add in Any Order, Count On, Add Doubles, Use Doubles to Add, Doubles Plus 1 and Doubles Minus 1, Practice the Strategies, Add 10 and More
Skills to be practicing that will be assessed throughout 1st Quarter & reported on the 1Q Report Card:
- Solving addition and subtraction word problems within 10.
- Applying strategies to add and subtract.
- Adding and subtracting within 20.
Reminders
- Conferences will continue to take place on Tuessday, October 27th and Wednesday, November 4th and Thursday, November 12th. Please reference the link below to verify the time and date that you have signed up to conference or sign up for a conference if you have not done so.
- This week we started fluency homework. This is a short homework routine that your child will need to complete each day you see FHW in their assignment notebook (4 times a week). Please leave this in their smiley face folder throughout the week so that we can check the grid each day.
- Just a reminder that all students should keep a change of clothes in their backpack in case of accidents that would require a change of clothes. Thank you for your support!
- As the weather is getting cooler please make sure your child has appropriate outdoor clothing. We go outside for recess everyday unless the temperature is under 32 degrees or it is raining/snowing.
- Please continue to send a water bottle to school with your child. Water fountains are turned off except for water bottle fillers.
- Please make sure to charge your child's chromebook each evening.
- Thank you for sending an extra mask in your child's backpack in case they need to change.
Upcoming Events
- Tuesday, October 27th - Parent-Teacher Conference Night
- Sunday, November 1st- Daylight Savings Time Ends (turn your clocks back 1 hour)
- Monday, November 2nd - End of First Quarter
- Tuesday, November 3rd - No School Teacher Inservice Day
- Wednesday, November 4th - Parent-Teacher Conference Night
- Wednesday, November 11th- Veteran’s Day- No School
- Thursday, November 12th - Parent-Teacher Conference Night
- Wednesday, November 25th- Friday, November 27th- No School Thanksgiving Break