Hello First Grade Families!
I can't say I'm terribly surprised that we kicked off our Monday, the second day of April, with a snow squall! You should have heard the groans when we looked out the window! We are coming into our "home stretch" of the school year, with April break being one of our final benchmarks. We will begin many projects now that will culminate in larger learning experiences by the end of the year! It will be exciting to get these started now and share them with you in the months to come! Ask Me About.... Literacy...This week we got out of our reading group books and spent a good deal of our time reviewing word study principles and applying them in our reading. One of our jobs this week was to keep a running list of all of the glued sounds that we found in our texts. Examples of these glued sounds are all, am, an, ing, ang, ong, ung, ink, ank, onk, and unk! Word Study...This week, while reviewing closed syllables, we also were introduced to some vowel teams that produce long vowel sounds. For example, we know that ai and ay stand together to make the long a vowel sound, and that ee, ea, and ey stand together to make the long e vowel sound. Math...Last week, we took our study of place value to the next level by using it to help us add two-digit numbers together! We practiced identifying our two-digit numbers by representing them with base-ten blocks in order to show the value of each digit in the number. Then, to add our two numbers together, we combined our pictures together and counted the base-ten blocks we had drawn to reach the sum. This gives us great practice skip counting! We also added the term, flat, into our repertoire. A flat signifies 10 longs with the value of 100. Writing...We continued our story on chart paper and have one more chapter left to write! We will be working on revising our work this week as we prepare to have our final version of our stories ready to be published before April Vacation! Upcoming Events!
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