Hello,
The Parade was a huge success and New Directions won first place for our float. Thanks for everyone who was able to help out with this!
Upcoming Events:
Thursday, December 10th-PJs, Pizza and Publishing Family Night, 5:30-7:00-Students are excited to share their Information books.
Tuesday, December 15th-11:30 Dismissal
Thursday, December 24-Sunday January 3rd-Winter Break
Curriculum Updates:
Readers' Workshop: We are continuing our reading nonfiction unit and are spending some more time focusing on reading aloud like experts. We will be planning to think and talk by using key words we are learning in our books and using drama to bring our read alouds to life.At the end of the week we will choose a topic we want to learn more about and read several books about that topic to grow our thinking.
Writers' Workshop: This week in our information books we will review our writing checklist and set new goals, use photographs or pictures about our topic to help us teach our readers even more, edit "as we go" to remember to add punctuation as we write, and prepare our books for our publishing night on Thursday.
Math Workshop: This week we are starting a new unit-Place Value Concepts. Our big goals of the unit are: read, write and represent 2-digit numbers as tens and ones, compare two 2-digit numbers, add tens and one, use strategies to add within 20, and use addition within 20 to solve story problems. A note is coming home today explaining the big ideas of this unit.
Science/Social Studies: We are finished our weather centers and have learned so much! This week we will be thinking about what we still want to learn about weather and researching using the ipads and books.
Word Study: We introduced 5 new word wall words today. The words are: them, here, boy, girl, little. We will be assessing these words on Friday. These are words we want students to be able to read and write automatically without having to think to sound them out. Students also continue to work on phonics skills and word sorts at their developmental level.
As always, let me know if you have any questions.
Kathy Zobel
First Grade
New Directions Learning Community
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