Week of October 13-17

This week in First Grade we will be beginning unit 2 in math.  Students will learn how to tell time to the hour, learn the minute and hour hands on a clocks and make a clock with both hands.

We will read the books Matthew and Tilly and McDuff and the Baby.  We are learning that readers make connections to the characters in the story. We call it a text to self connection.  Today we talked about making connections. This week we will write about making connections text to self and we will look for connections in our reading.  

Our popcorn words went home last night. As students work on learning the popcorn words, they are placed on our word wall. Students are responsible for writing the word wall words correctly during writing workshop.  Please continue to practice the new and old words at home.

This week we will work in Phonics on digraphs. Today we worked on sh  and ch, two letters working together to make one sound. We noticed words that have sh and ch at the beginning or ending.

In Social Studies, we are learning about consequences.  We will read The Story of Ping. In the story a little duck named Ping finds himself last to return to his owners boat and rather than face a consequence, he hides! This leads to another problem and illustrates how consequences happen.

Field trip money is due tomorrow. 

Have a great week!

Mrs. Scheck