First Grade Weekly News
January 27-31, 2025
This Week's Story: Chameleons are Cool
Skills covered in this story: main idea, details, text features, spelling patterns (-ake, -ack)
Vocabulary: chameleon, balance, *bulge, *peering, prey
Chameleons Are Cool Read-A-Loud
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Nonfiction Story: Color Changing Chameleons
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Text Features
Main Idea, Details
Greater Than, Less Than, Equal To
Please send in❣️
😀One empty Pringles can and one empty paper roll if you didn't in September.
🥰Optional: Valentine's Day Card Container (Directions were sent home earlier.)
Spelling Words: January 31st
-ack and -ake spelling patterns
rack
stack
snack
back
cake
lake
quake
snake
up
about
other
extended list: bulgy, peering
Math Skills to Work On
This week we will be: comparison number stories, 2-digit addition and subtraction.
VoWac (Phonics)
We will work on: beginning blends (sc, sk, sm, sn, sp, st, sw,, dw, tw, shr, thr)
Looking Ahead
February 14: Valentine's Day Party
February 17: No School, President's Day
February 21: Mid term for Quarter 3
March 17: No School: Staff Development for teachers
March 21: End of 3rd Quarter
March 24: No School: Teacher Work Day
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