The Week Ahead- November 14th to November 18th

Dear Parents,                                                      Week of November 14^th-18th

  We had a wonderful time on our field trip and students were thrilled to learn about the living things among their environment.  We also had great discussions about what we were sensing as we were on our nature walk and walking through the apple orchard.  Our Veteran’s Day assembly went very well and every student showed great respect and thanks to our Veterans.

Here is a look at the week ahead:

Reading: We are continuing to work in our reading groups and centers.  We have been practicing reading fluently and communicating appropriately in a reading partnership.  We will be discussing strategies for retelling a story and how to think and share thoughts with a partner.  This week we will focus on retelling settings and characters.   As always, we continue to practice using our strategies to ensure that our reading looks right, sounds right, and makes sense.  

Word Work/Handwriting: This week, we will practice adding “s” to different words to make them plural.  We will also practice changing and adding beginning and ending sounds to make new words.  For handwriting, we will continue to practice letter and number formation; focusing on M and N and numbers 1-4. 

Writing:  Students have cleaned out their writing folders and are ready to start collecting and selecting pieces to work with!  We will discuss the importance of selecting pieces to edit and publish.  We will also discuss how to share our writing and give constructive feedback to others so that we can go back and add details.  Students will review using the word wall as a tool and writing their name, date and title on each piece.   

Math:  We have started our new math unit; Solving Story Problems.  This week, we will be solving problems with multiple solutions and number combinations.  We will also play addition games with numbers and dot cubes.  Students will practice the strategy of “counting on” in order to help solve word problems and find missing quantities.  We will revisit some games to help explore the strategies. 

Social Studies: This week, we will continue exploring and labeling maps.  We will be labeling, identifying locations, and using numbers on a map to show sequence.  Students will also be creating their own maps of the classroom or their bedroom. 

Have a wonderful long weekend! 

~ Your First Grade Teachers: Miss Field and Mrs. McIntire