Welcome back 1A Families,
I hope that fall break was filled with some wonderful memories for you and your children! I had some wonderful moments with family and friends and am feeling refreshed and ready to jump into second quarter with your sweet scholars. On top of that, I'm looking forward to meeting with all of you this week. See you soon!
Homework
Nightly: Read for 15 minutes, practice poem (1 minute), practice rocket math (1 minute)
phonograms: ee, ck, or, e, th, wh, t, oo, ow, ng
Monday: No Words. Handwriting Practice for lowercase letters a-z and math wkbk. pg. 61-64
Tuesday: We will have just 5 words today: rides, ride, tree, sick, got and math wkbk. pg. 65-68
Wednesday: north, white, spent, foot, feet, blows, blow, block, spring, river and math wkbk pg. 69-72
Thursday: Review all 15 words and Test B
Friday: Math wkbk. pg. 73-76
Announcements
Frog and Toad are Friends: We will begin our next book on Friday. Please ensure that your child brings in their copy. Thank you!
Read-a-thon: In celebration of Read-a-thon, students are welcome to dress-up at a storybook character or a historical figure. Costumes proposals will be sent home this week.
Parent-Teacher Conferences: I look forward to meeting with you during conferences. Please review your child's Quarter 1 checklist to ensure that we can discuss any questions you may have.
Academics
Poem: The Purple Cow by Gelett Burgess Idiom: Practice Makes Perfect
phonograms: ee, ck, or, e, th, wh, t, oo, ow, ng
Writing/Grammar: This week we will read sections of The Frog Prince by The Grimm Brothers. We will practice answering comprehension questions using full sentences and we will practice writing complete sentences about the story.
Spalding: Please see below the spelling words for this week. We will only have 15 words this week to allow for reteaching and review of our spalding progress to set us up for a successful quarter 2! Please practice saying the phonograms each night.
Monday: No Words. Handwriting Practice for lowercase letters a-z
Tuesday: We will have just 5 words today: rides, ride, tree, sick, got
Wednesday: north, white, spent, foot, feet, blows, blow, block, spring, river and
Thursday: Review all 15 words
Math: We will learn position words, direction words and ordinal numbers this week! We will wrap-up the week with a test over what we have learned.
Literature: During the beginning of the week, we will read two versions Little Red Riding Hood. The second version is the Chinese version, Lon Po Po. We will end the week by beginning to read our second book Frog and Toad are Friends. Please ensure that your child brings their copy to school by Friday, October 19th.
History: This week in history we will be continuing out journey through ancient Egypt. We will be learning about pyramids, mummies and ancient Egyptian writing.
Science: We will begin to study oceans this week! The class will complete an experiment to see which objects sink and float in fresh and salt water. We will also demonstrate how currents move through the ocean.
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