Weeks of: 2/28/22 and 3/7/22
Language Arts:
High Frequency Words: Study ALL High Frequency Words
Skills we are currently covering:
Math
Go Math! lessons we are covering during these 2 weeks:
Reminders
Upcoming Events
Language Arts:
High Frequency Words: Study ALL High Frequency Words
Skills we are currently covering:
- Writing an informative text about a zoo animal students have researched.
- Reading high frequency words.
- Gaining new information from both the pictures and print.
- Recognizing that a wide variety of fiction texts may be set in different places and that customs and people’s behavior may reflect those settings.
- Inferring characters' intentions, feelings, and motivations using the text and pictures.
- Using new vocabulary in discussion of books.
- Relating books to my own life.
- Making connections across texts that are read aloud.
- Telling what happened in a book after hearing it read aloud.
- Making connections across texts that are read aloud.
- Inferring when the characters change.
- Following multiple characters in the same story.
- Finding and understanding the message of the story.
- Noticing and understanding the importance of ideas relevant to their world, such as valuing differences.
- Taking turns when speaking.
- Relating a story to our own lives.
- Using evidence from the text to support statements.
- Understanding the meanings of words in the book.
- Engaging actively in turn and talk.
- Demonstrating respectful listening behaviors.
- Making connections across texts that have the same theme.
- Understanding that a realistic fiction story could happen in real life.
- Listening with attention and understanding to the oral reading of the story.
- Using some academic language to talk about literary features (problem, solution).
- Changing the last sound or sounds in a word to make another word.
- Identifying that some words end in an e that is silent, and then other vowel usually has a long sound (sounds like its name).
- Identifying that a vowel can stand for a sound that is different from its name (short vowel sound).
- Identifying that a vowel can stand for a sound like its name (long vowel sound).
- Identifying that some clusters of consonant letters stand for one sound that is usually different from either of the individual consonant sounds.
- Hearing the sound of a consonant digraph at the beginning of a word.
Math
Go Math! lessons we are covering during these 2 weeks:
- Addition Word Problems, Related Addition and Subtraction, Practice Addition and Subtraction, Chapter 8 Pre-Test, Chapter 8 Review, Chapter 8 Test, Order Length, Indirect Measurement
- Count to 120, starting at any number less than 120
- Understand the place value of two-digit numbers
- Compare 2 two-digit numbers
- Add within 100
- Addition Fact Fluency within 10: (All facts within 10)
- Subtraction Fact Fluency within 10: (All facts within 10)
Reminders
- As the end of the quarter nears, it is especially important to review all high frequency words. These words have been sent home bi-weekly as orange flashcards. Please make sure you are studying these words on a regular basis. Students should be able to read these words fluently without sounding them out. All high frequency words from 1st, 2nd, and 3rd quarter will be tested at the end of the quarter. If you have misplaced some word cards, they are listed on our First Grade Website under the tab labeled “High Frequency Word List” at www.springmyerfirstgrade.weebly.com.
- Just a reminder to keep a change of clothes in your child's backpack in case of an accident that requires them to change their clothes.
Upcoming Events
- February 28-March 8- Book Fair 8:00am-3:00pm and on the evening of March 23 5:30-7:30
- March 4th- PTA Inflatables Event in the Springmyer Gym
- Last names A-L 6:00-7:00pm
- Last names M-Z 7:30-8:30pm
- March 14-18th Spring Break
- March 21st- No School Teacher Inservice