I hope everyone had a nice, long weekend. It was so great to see many of you last week during our Currouiculum Night. I hope that you left with a better understanding of what our first grade classroom looks like. I will try to keep you informed weekly with classroom updates.
A look at the classroom this week...
Reading - We will be focusing on Nonfiction for the next 4 weeks.
*We will be noticing differences in fiction and nonfiction texts.
*Asking questions to focus on what we want to learn.
*Deciding what to read to answer our questions: locating information
*Monitoring and revising our questions
*Using pictures and context to learn about new words
*Learning about topics and supporting details
*Writing about our new learning: organizing our thinking
*Sharing new learning
Writing - We will be using different craft techniques the next four weeks to emphasize the message in our writing. The types of craft techniques that will be studied include:
*Varied sentence lengths
*Different sentence beginnings
*Sound effects
*Repetition
*Figurtive Language
*Showing thoughts and feelings
*Lists
*Small Moment and Many Moment Stories
Some of the authors that you may want to explore that use these different craft techniques include:
*Ezra Jack Keats
*Angela Johnson
*Jane Yolan
*Cynthia Rylant
*Donald Crews
*Eve Bunting
*Mem Fox
Talk to your child about his/her daily writing activities. Encourage them to try some of the techniques these authors use in their own daily writing during Writers' Workshop.
Math - We will be exploring order property to achieve the sum. The children will recognize that 2+3 =5 as well as 3+2=5. We will play games and continue to work through our math book and extra practice and challenge pages. Your child may come home with an extra practice or a challenge page for homework.
Social Studies- We are continuing our unit on, "Families." Please help your child remember to complete and return the interview on his/her Grandparent by this Tuesday.
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