Hello parents,
I hope everyone enjoyed Thanksgiving and maybe started to prepare for the next holiday that will be here before we know it!
This week in first grade we are continuing to work on retellings. I'll be showing the students how to retell with a "Shape Go Map." The map uses three symbols to show the parts of a story. First we will practice whole group and later this week the students will do a retelling independently. The story we will practice on is called Hooray for Wodney Wat. We will be reading it tomorrow and Thursday.
The new popcorn words came home today. The words are: make, my, there, they, this and will. We have discussed how the word they is written with the and a y- not with an a. This is a funny word that you can't "sound out."
In writing we are working on making our small moments writing readable. We discussed today what makes a story a small moment. We remembered the parts of a small moment such as; the characters move and talk, there is a setting and a close in ending. A small moment is told in itsy-bitsy steps.
We remembered how to make our writing readable. Writers do this by using spaces, neat handwriting and by spelling the word wall or popcorn words correctly because they are available to look at as we write.
This week we will begin looking at the properties of liquids in Science, we will observe several liquids in their containers. We will learn the words viscous, translucent and transparent.
In math we will be continuing to work on addition and subtraction. We will do domino addition. We will also work on story problems solving with groups of numbers. A unit review test will be given early next week.
Please remember the family trees are due on Thursday, December 4. We will begin sharing them in class.
Be sure to send students with hats, mittens and boots. It's cold out there and we go out on most days.
Thank you,
Mrs. Scheck
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