Sunday, July 23, 2017

Week of July 24th

We have made it through 2 weeks of 1st grade!  Congratulations and we only have 1 more week of school until we track out!

Important Reminders:

  • For Tracks 1, 2, and 3, Wednesday the 26th are optional Ident-a-kid pictures.
  • For Track 3 Friday the 28th is the last day before Track Out on Monday
  • Look for a sign up genius for a 1st quarter parent conference day with Mrs. Wern in August before we track back in.  Watch the blog and email!

This week we will be learning:

Reading--We will continue to work on read to self and learn about our writing center.  Our focus on good fit books and reading/writing the whole time during centers will help to increase stamina this week.  We have finished beginning of the year reading assessments :)

Writing--We will continue to work on picking a small moment out of our lives to write about using multiple sentences and transition words (first, next, then, finally).  We will also focus on when to use capital letters.

Math--We have finished the unit on counting, writing, and understanding numbers to 120.  We will be beginning the addition/subtraction unit to 20 with the focus on counting on when adding two numbers (8 + 4 would be "put 8 in your head and count on using 4 fingers  9, 10, 11, 12).  We will also explore math mountains this week.

Math Mountains:
Image result for math mountains first grade

Social Studies--We are finishing our First Grade Experts unit and beginning our community unit.  Students will learn what a community is and how each one of us can be a good citizen.