We hope everyone had a wonderful, restful Thanksgiving week. It’s hard to believe that we have our winter break in only two more weeks; the days seem to fly by. We had a busy week of Dibels and MAP testing. We enjoyed our mystery reader this week, AJ’s dad. He read Lucille Colandro’s There Was A Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow. We have tested quite a few students on their red rainbow words and some have also tested the yellow rainbow words. Please help your child study these words so they can be tested. We want all students to at least have the red rainbow words complete by our winter break. Also, please continue to listen to your child read every night.
We hope you all have a nice, warm weekend!
Ms. Hartness & Ms. Vicky
This week:
Math- We continued our story problem unit.
Reading/Phonics/Writing- We did one-on-one Dibels testing and the Reading MAP. We will send you the MAP results once we receive them.
Social Studies- Our study on historic figures continues: Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark with Sacagawea (exploration), Theodore Roosevelt (National Parks and the environment), George Washington Carver, and Ruby Bridges.
Next week:
Math- We will continue working on story problems: we will compare and solve story problems of different types and write two different equations to match a story problem.
Reading/Phonics- we will work on rhyme recognition, onset fluency, blending, isolating final sounds, segmenting onset-rime, adding initial phonemes, deleting initial phonemes, substituting phonemes. We will begin our reading study, Word Detectives.
Writing- We will begin our writing unit on Topic Books.
Social Studies- Our historic figures study continues: Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark with Sacagawea (exploration), Theodore Roosevelt (National Parks and the environment), George Washington Carver, and Ruby Bridges.
We’ve had a wonderful week full of learning and fun! The students participated in activities that helped them identify key details in a text and answer questions about stories. They’ve been working hard and making great progress!
A big thank you to Valentino's mom, Ms. Victoria, for joining our class and reading the beautiful book "Daniela Y Mateo Viajan a Argentina." The students absolutely loved learning about Argentina’s culture, food, places, and music. It was an enriching experience for everyone!
This week:
Reading: The students listened to stories and, with support, identified the main idea and details.
Writing: The students wrote or drew details about a story to support the main idea of the story.
Language: The students learned the features of simple sentences, including the use of capital letters and periods.
Math: The students solved Compare, Difference Unknown problems, reinforcing their understanding of the relationship between addition and subtraction.
Science: The students continued learning about the water cycle.
Next week:
Reading: Using a text, the students will practice identifying key features of a sentence (first word, capitalization, and ending punctuation). They will circle the first word, underline the capital letter, and box the punctuation mark. Also, we will correct sentences by adding the correct punctuation, spaces between words, and capitalization of the first word and names.
Writing: With support from the teacher, the students will describe a known object or event and then add a drawing to clarify their description.
Language: The students will practice greeting others and sharing their feelings.
Math: The students will solve and compare a variety of problem types, write equations to represent problems, and make sense of equations with a symbol for the unknown. They will also reason in the other direction: writing stories and questions that correspond to given equations, and using drawings, numbers, and words to find the answers.
Science: The students will write a short definition of each of the stages involved in the water cycle.
Winter Break
Friday, December 20th is an early release day for ALL students - including those who usually attend aftercare. If you don’t normally participate in our afternoon pick-up, please CLICK HERE to familiarize yourself with the procedures. Dismissal will begin at 11:30a.
To access the Mathematics Open Up curriculum visit this link:
- https://www.openupresources.org/
- click "access the curriculum."
- click "Open Up Resources K-5 Math, First Edition."
- Click "Grade 1"
- You can select your role as "family" and "student."
- Change the Language from English to Spanish by clicking on this Icon 🌐 EN ES
Please label all students' belongings.
Please send a healthy snack and water bottle every day, and make sure the water bottle is filled with water.
We are a nut free community
We encourage Velcro shoes unless your child is proficient in tying shoelaces.
Add a change of clothes for your student.
Please remember to include all four English/Spanish teachers in your email correspondence so we all receive your information.
Read at home every night for 20 minutes.
December 10
Winter Band Concert, 6:30pm at UC.
Spirit Night at Nicky's Undefeated Steaks & Hoagies.
December 12
Winter Orchestra Concert, 6:30pm at UC.
December 13
Used Uniform Sale at Lower Campus.
Finance Committee Zoom meeting.
December 16
Board of Directors meeting.
December 17
Winter Chorus Concert, 6pm at UC.
December 20
Last day of 1st semester.
Early release - LC 11:30am, UC 11:45am.
