January 20-24

First Grade News

Over and Under the Snow

Skills for the week: Students will: learn to gather information from pictures, use the pronouns (I, me, my) in sentences and the vowel team -ea for our spelling pattern.

Vocabulary words: forest, doze, tunnel, huddle, and glide.

Spelling list: Students will work on words in the -ea word family:

beat

meat

seat

pleat

heat

neat

wheat

treat

Tricky words

she

do

how

Extended Words

tunnel

huddle

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Math Skills for the week:

The students will: explore with base 10 blocks and measurement, review and practice with comparison symbols in number stories, and 2 digit addition and subtraction.

Vocabulary words: base 10 blocks, measure, <,>,=, more than, less than, addition.

Explore with base ten blocks and measurement

Students will use base 10 blocks to show values for single digit and 2 digit numbers.

Comparison Symbols

We continue to practice comparing single digit and 2 digit numbers, review the symbol names, and apply them in an equation.

2 digit addition and subtraction

Students will learn how to use their number grid to solve 2 digit number stories and number sentences.

Dates to Remember

January

17- End of the 2nd Quarter.

20- Teacher Work Day: No School

Top 20- The Frame

This week we will continue with our lesson on "The Frame". Students will learn about trying to reframe or look at a situation from another perspective.

Reminders

Please make sure to send in warm outwear with your child for recess. Students need: boots, snow pants, coats, hats, and mittens.
Some of the students are getting VERY close to reaching their AR goal of passing 50 tests. Thank you for your help at home to encourage independent reading.

Mrs. Lynn Baldus

Email: lbaldus@gm.k12.mn.us
Phone: 507-754-5317 7750