Hello,
Last week marked the end of the second quarter. It's hard to believe we are halfway through our year! First graders have grown so much this year. Report cards will be coming home Monday, January 25th. What a great way to celebrate all the gains your child has made so far this year.
Upcoming Events:
Monday, January 18th-Friday, January 22nd-Celebrate New Directions Week
Tuesday, January 19th-5:30-7:00 PM Spaghetti and Art Night
Wednesday, January 20th-No School
Thursday, January 21st-6:00-7:00 PM-Gym Night-No RSVP necessary
Friday, January 29-6:00-7:30 New Directions/EQ Dance
Curriculum Updates:
Readers' Workshop:
We are continuing to add new tools to read hard words. Today we tried sounds many ways to figure out words because some words sound different than they look. We need to try sounds several ways until the word sounds right. We will also work on reading the words we know is a snap, and only slowing down to read a word when we have to so our reading sounds as smooth as it can be. Thursday and Friday we will focus on using tools to understand our books. We'll work on rereading if we don't understand something, and make movies in our minds to picture what's happening.
Writers' Workshop: We are continuing to work on our reviews. Students have been reviewing toys, restaurants, games and many other favorites. We will be learning more details we can add to our reviews to make them even more convincing. We'll add small moment stories that fit with the topic of our reviews, come up with ways to hook our reader into reading our reviews, write catchy conclusions to tie our pieces up and work with our partners to give our writing check-ups, making sure our writing is easy to read.
Math Workshop:
We're finishing up our work with 2 digit numbers. We'll spend some time comparing 2 digit numbers, deciding which one is more and which one is less and practice using the appropriate symbols: < > =. We'll also spend some time practicing using 2-digit addition, focusing on using tens and ones to add 1-digit and 2 digit numbers. At the end of the week we will be focusing on mathematical practices, including making sense of problems, reasoning, and using words and models to back our thinking.
We're finishing up our work with 2 digit numbers. We'll spend some time comparing 2 digit numbers, deciding which one is more and which one is less and practice using the appropriate symbols: < > =. We'll also spend some time practicing using 2-digit addition, focusing on using tens and ones to add 1-digit and 2 digit numbers. At the end of the week we will be focusing on mathematical practices, including making sense of problems, reasoning, and using words and models to back our thinking.
Science/Social Studies: We spent some time learning about Martin Luther King Jr. today. This week we will starting our families centers to help us learn more about families today and long ago. In our centers we will learning what kinds of things families do, where people go and what they do, how are families the same/different long ago compared to today, and creating collages of things we enjoy to do with our families.
Word Study: No new words will be coming home this week. We will be spending time studying letter combinations and different sounds they can make (ie -ed can make the /t/, /d/ and /id/ sound).
As always, let me know if you have any questions.
Kathy Zobel
First Grade
New Directions Learning Community
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