We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and are ready for December. In December we have a lot of exciting things to learn and events to attend! Students have been very busy learning and creating wonderful things and are excited for the month ahead.
Here is a look at the week ahead:
Reading: We are continuing to work in our reading groups and centers. Students have been working very hard on retelling stories with detail and are able to identify characters and setting independently. Next week, we will look deeper into the author’s purpose and begin to react, notice feelings, paint pictures in our minds for what is happening, and make thoughtful predictions to what may happen. We will continue to review reading strategies and encourage students to try as many strategies as they can while reading before asking for help.
Word Work/Handwriting: Next week, we will continue to practice our letter formation. We will be working with capitals U, V, W, X, Y, and Z as well review numbers 1-5. In word work we will begin learning common short vowel word patterns beginning with “a” and “e”. We will be making words whole group and practicing independently to recognize letter clusters by putting letters together and noticing patterns to help read words.
Writing: Students have begun a new unit, realistic fiction, and writing their own realistic fiction stories. We will continue to talk about what makes a story realistic fiction and will be creating stories that have a clear beginning, middle, and end with clear transitions between each. We will continue to generate ideas and collect our own realistic fiction pieces. Picture books will be used as examples to help generate ideas and see clear beginning, middle, and end transitions in familiar text.
Math: Students have been doing a wonderful job solving subtraction story problems! We are beginning to notice words in story problems that tell us whether to subtract or add and are writing equations independently. Next week, we will be solving both addition and subtraction story problems through whole group discussions and games. We will use the key words we used to tell us whether to subtract or add to help solve the problems. We will also continue to discuss strategies and write number equations.
Science: We will begin our next unit in Science focusing on living things. We will begin by talking about animals and the characteristics that make them living. Students will use what they already know about animals, books, and videos to create a list of characteristics.
Have a great weekend!
~Your first grade teachers: Miss Field and Mrs. McIntire
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