First Grade: February 2017

Friday, February 24, 2017

Feb. 27 - March 3

We hope you enjoyed your weekend!

Dr. Seuss's birthday is coming up soon! If your child would like to share any of their favorite books, please have your child bring them in. On Thursday, we will dress up as our favorite character from Dr. Seuss. On Friday, March 3^rd, we will wear crazy, mismatched socks. We have begun our maps and fairy tale unit in Social Studies and Reading. If you have any maps, globes, compasses, or fairy tales, please send them in with your child. Please make sure your child's name is on the items, so we can return them back to you at the end of the unit. We already have some and we would like to thank you for your support!!

This week your child will be reviewing all the Word Walls with various chants and activities. The spelling challenge will be on Friday, March 3^rd. The six new words that we will be introducing this week are:

pretty

means

old

any

same

tell

For this week, we will be learning about Dr. Seuss and some of his books.

The students will be continuing to practice writing a "How To" piece, explaining the steps in great details.

We will be continuing learning about Maps. We are going to focus on directions and symbols.

This week your child will learn about adding and subtracting two digit numbers within 100.

Addition strategies

E.9 Add two multiples of ten

E.10 Add a multiple of ten

MONDAY

Reading: 10 min Daily fill in Reading log (R.E.D. folder)

Math: Addition Worksheet

TUESDAY

Reading: 10 min Daily fill in Reading log (R.E.D. folder)

Writing Make lemonade!!

How to make lemonade explaining the steps.

WEDNESDAY

Reading: 10 min Daily fill in Reading log (R.E.D. folder)

Español: Worksheet

WWW: Study for Spelling Challenge

THURSDAY

Reading: 10 min Daily fill in Reading log (R.E.D. folder)

Reading: RAZ Kids Assignment

Sunday, February 19, 2017

Feb.20-24

Dr. Seuss's birthday is coming up soon! if your child would like to share any of their favorite books, please have your child bring them in.

Reminder: This Friday is a half day for the students. They will be dismissed at 11:45 a.m.}

If you happen to have any small toys that are in good conditions that we can add them to our Prize Box it would be greatly appreciated if you donate them to our class. We are running out of them and the students are very excited to win some prizes for doing outstanding work at school.

This week your child will be inquiring into the following:

This week your child will be reviewing all the Word Walls with various chants and activities. The spelling challenge will be on Friday, February 24th. The six new words that we will be introducing this week are:

much

before

line

right

too

zoo

For this week, we will continue reading stories from Owl at Home by Arnold Lobel.

We will begin our explanatory writing unit (How To). For this unit, we will be doing various activities here in class and at home. The students will be writing a "How To" piece, explaining the steps in great details. We will start with how to blow bubbles.

We will be starting a new unit in Maps, Legends and Fairy tales. We will be learning and drawing pictorial maps. If you have any maps, globe, compasses, legends, or fairy tales you would like to share, please bring them in and have your child's name on them.

This week your child will learn about adding and subtracting two digit number within 100.

Mixed operations

J.8 Ten more or less

J.9Add and subtract tens

TUESDAY

Reading: 10 min Daily fill in Reading log (R.E.D. folder)

WWW Fill in the blanks with sight words worksheet

WEDNESDAY

Reading: 10 min Daily fill in Reading log (R.E.D. folder)

Español: Worksheet

WWW: Study for Spelling Challenge

THURSDAY

Reading: 10 min Daily fill in Reading log (R.E.D. folder)

Reading: RAZ Kids Assignment

Sunday, February 12, 2017

Week of Feb. 13-17

We hope you enjoyed your weekend!

We would like to give a warm welcoming to our First Grade class to NICOLAS SAID ISA. We would like to ask you to please include him in the Valentine Activity you are doing at home so he can also receive some treats. Now our class has a total of 13 students. Here is the list:

GIULLIANA FLORENTINO

JOAQUIN PERAZZO

IVANNA LOPEZ

VALENTINA MEJIA

MARA YOUNG

SAKURA KUDO

SOFIA ESTRADA

SOFIA TEJERINA

VALERIA GOUGH

SHELLY KRAUTER

ANAM-CARA FULTON

FLOR DE MARIA ARMENTA

NICOLAS SAID ISA

We will be celebrating Valentine’s Day on Tuesday, February 14^th. We will be discussing ways to be good friends. To celebrate this special day, we are going to be having a delicious lunch the cafeteria staff would be selling. For this, we would like your cooperation in sending in Lps. 80.00 (try to send in the exact amount in a sealed envelope). This will include lunch, drink, dessert and a small treat.

This week your child will be inquiring into the following:

This week your child will be reviewing all the Word Walls with various chants and activities. The spelling challenge will be on Friday, February 17th. The five new words that we will be introducing this week are:

through

say

great

where

help

car

For this week, we will be reading Owl at Home by Arnold Lobel.

The students will be describing characters and recalling events in the story.

We will be wrapping up our unit in Solids and Liquids. Students will be presenting their work about what they learned about solid and liquids.

This week we are starting a new chapter. Your child will learn about adding and subtracting two digit numbers. We are going to have a Math Test this Friday about comparing numbers (greater than, less than) (last chapter covered).