Hello,
I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend! Just a reminder that Mrs. Desmond will be our guest teacher this week. Due to the snowstorm in NY over the weekend, the Institute I am attending will run Monday-Thursday now. If you need to communicate with her feel free to jot a note in your child's agenda or contact Mrs. Mitchell in the office and she will relay the message. Have a great week!
Upcoming Events:
Friday, January 29-6:00-7:30 New Directions/EQ Dance-More information to come home soon!
Tuesday, February 9th-11:30 Dismissal
Friday, February 12th-Valentine Celebration-A note will come home soon with student names and more details.
Thursday, February 25th-11:30 Dismissal
Friday, February 26th-No School
Monday, February 29th-Melodies and Masterpieces Family Night-5:30-7:00-Night includes a short concert put on by New Directions Students. Look for more info to come home in a few weeks.
Curriculum Updates:
Readers' Workshop: This week in reading we will continue to focus on making sure we understand what we're reading. We'll keep track of who's talking, make sure we understand the words we read, use all of our strategies to keep our reading going quickly, and work on ways to make our reading sound smooth and fluent. We have also been working on setting our own goals as readers and working hard to accomplish those goals.
Writers' Workshop: This week our opinion writing will take a turn as we begin to write book reviews. We'll use everything we know about opinion writing so far (tell an opinion, give reasons and examples, make comparisons, tell a small story, add a catchy introduction and say good-bye) to write book reviews. As we write reviews, we'll learn how to give sneak peak summaries spilling the beans, using conjunctions in sentences (and, but), and using speaking skills to give oral book reviews. We've read so many great books this year, now we can tell our opinion about them and convince others to read them!
Math Workshop: This week we are starting a new unit in math. This unit extends strategies from our last units for unknown partners in addition and subtraction situations. The methods for finding totals and differences within 10 are used in this unit for totals within 20. We will use the strategies of counting on and making a ten. We will access prior knowledge of strategies and apply them with numbers greater numbers. This week we will be solving teen addition problems with unknown partners (Sam had 6 balls. Molly gave her some more. Now she has 15. How many did Molly give her?), and teen subtraction problems (Sam had 16 legos. She gave 8 to Molly. How many does she have left?)
Science/Social Studies: This week we will be continuing 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: New word wall words for this week are:
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that
best
will
they
saw
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These words will be assessed Friday, January 29th.
As always, let me know if you have any questions.
Kathy Zobel
First Grade
New Directions Learning Community
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