Hello First Grade Families!
We are already coming up on Valentine's Day, and pretty soon it will be February Break! We have tried to pack a lot into this short month and still have a lot to come! I'm going to be testing out a new format of blog post that is a newsletter/blog hybrid. This will give you more specific information about what we are studying each week in literacy, word study, math, and writing and will be written from the perspective of your student in order to spark some conversations about school at home! Ask Me About.... Literacy...This week we began discussing the differences between fiction and nonfiction texts. This will be the focus of our small reading groups this upcoming week. We have also been reviewing the strategy of flipping a vowel sound from long to short when trying to decode a word. Word Study...This week we were introduced to four new glued sounds, -ing, -ang, -ong, and-ung. We know that these letters stand together to make one sound. We also studied the new trick words, why, by, my, and try. Math...We have been navigating the hundreds chart this week exploring jumps of +/- 10. We have done this on the chart itself and also in isolated pieces. We have practiced +/- 10 on a "tens ladder"(imagine removing a single row from the hundreds chart but given one number in that row to orient yourself), and we have practiced +/- 10 and +/- 1 with a "cube puzzle" where a selection of five squares from the hundreds chart have been removed and you are only given the center number! To support this, we learned a new game called Tick Toc Tac Toc Toe! Writing...In writing we have begun our third unit! We are studying fiction writing! We know that any fiction story needs original characters, a setting, and main events. We have focused on creating our own characters, deciding a setting, and next week we will get our characters "in and out of trouble" with a focus on problem and solution! Upcoming Events!
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