Hello First Grade Families!
It was so fun to wrap up our Trip Around the World with our first grade concert! Thank you all for attending and supporting Team 210! We hope you enjoyed the show! This week, even with our special presentations and concert preparations, we found time for some really meaningful conversations in word study, math, and writing! Ask Me About.... Literacy...This week we got new books in our reading groups that we picked specifically because they had great examples of dialogue. We know that good dialogue adds expression to a story and we can use examples from our own lives to figure out what tones are appropriate during certain situations that our characters get into! Word Study...This week, after having finished with r-controlled vowels, we moved on to syllables! We know that a closed syllable ends on a consonant sound. For example, in the word "blocks," the vowel sound of o is closed in by the ending digraph blend cks. "Blocks" is one syllable and that syllable is closed. Math...We continued our conversations about place value this week by building with longs (tens) and cubes (ones). We know that when a digit is in either the tens or the ones place, the value of that digit is changed. We will continue building two-digit numbers by representing them with base-ten blocks, and will begin to add them next week! Our Fact Power focus was on the Numbers Two Apart strategy. If the addends in our number sentence are two apart, such as 6 and 8, we can quickly solve for the sum in two ways. The first is recognizing this as a Doubles + 2 fact. 6+8 = 6+6+2 or 12+2. The sum is 14. The second way we can solve is by recognizing that since 6 and 8 are two apart, the number in between them is 7, and if you double 7 you also reach 14! These are more efficient options for solving rather than starting at 8 and counting on. It's always good to know some tricks! Writing...We had so much fun this week writing a fiction story together on chart paper! Our story included introducing a new character and setting, chapters, dialogue, secondary characters, a mystery, and more! Hopefully, more practice writing fiction stories all together will help us generate ideas for our own stories. We will be publishing our fiction pieces before April Vacation! Upcoming Events!
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