Hello First Grade Families!
Happy Monday! I hope everyone had an enjoyable Mother's Day weekend celebrating all of the special role models in our lives! The kids worked hard on their presents last week and were so excited to share them with you! Last week kicked off our study of NH Animals and now, this week, things will be in full swing! Stay tuned! Ask Me About.... Literacy...This week allowed us time to not only classify the animals in our nonfiction group texts into the categories or mammal, fish, reptile, amphibian, bird, or insect, we also used facts and photographs to identify the main traits of those categories. One group's text was about poisonous creatures. We noticed that only fish, reptiles, and insects were included in the book! We know that we can tell how to classify an animal by looking at whether it has fur, feathers, skin or scales, gills or lungs, and how it gives birth to its young! Word Study...This week, we learned the new vowel team, -aw and -au. Both vowel teams produce the same sound like in saw and August. We also studied two more suffixes, -ing and -ed. We can add -ing to the end of a word to show that an action is happening now and -ed to the end of a word to show that an action happened in the past. Math...This week our focus was on beginning a geometry unit! We reviewed basic shapes by exploring pattern blocks (though not getting into too much detail about attributes yet!) We also discussed fractions by completing a paper folding activity. These discussions will continue on this week! Writing...This week we worked on writing "How To" pieces which are designed to teach the reader how to do something that we are good at. This helps us organize our information under headings so the reader can easily understand us. A "How To" is just one style of nonfiction text. Upcoming Events!
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