IMPORTANT DATES:
• Nov. 10~ Wendy’s Night 5:00-8:00 pm
• Nov. 11~ Veteran’s Day
100 Book Challenge: Look for your child’s Skills Card this week! Thank you for reading the note attached. Please keep the card in your child’s reading folder. Thanks, also, for doing such a wonderful job keeping up with the books! We are not missing ANY at this point!
Homework:
Please continue to review High Frequency words for first grade. If you haven’t had the chance to check it out lately, visit our class webpage for some links to sites that are terrific for reading and spelling these words. If you do not have a computer with internet access at home, remember that you can visit the public library!
Math homework will go home on Tuesday and Thursday of this week! In addition to the sheets that go home, please work on adding facts +0, +1, +2, +3, and double facts such as (2+2, 5+5, 7+7, 10+10).
Language Arts: This week we will be reading and writing about Farms. This unit combines standards from ELA, Social Studies and Science! We’ll learn more about reading non-fiction for information, paying attention to special features such as bold print, subtitles, glossaries and indexes. In writing, we’re continuing to emphasize spelling, capital letters written in the correct places, and ending punctuation. We’ll learn more about writing more than one sentence on the same topic as we organize our ideas.
Math: We assessed Unit 2 in class today. In Unit 3, we’ll work on patterns, even and odd numbers, adding and subtracting on a number line, and telling time to the half-hour.
Our addition is going so well! We’re working on Rocket Math, which emphasizes speed and repetition for memorization of facts.
Social Studies: As part of our unit on farms, we’ll learn about how we use resources from the earth. We’ll also talk about jobs that are related to getting farm products from the farm to our homes.
On Veteran’s Day, we will learn about the meaning behind the holiday. Thank you for helping us honor veterans! We have had several children bring in photographs of members of their families that serve or have served in the armed forces.
Science: We’ll be learning about living things and “non-living” things. We will study about the needs of all living things and the similarities and differences between animals and plants.
