This week (5-13-19) we will be focusing on:

Reading:

Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.

Writing:

Write informative/explanatory texts in which they name a topic, supply some facts about the topic, and provide some sense of closure.

Math:

Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

10 can be thought of as a bundle of ten ones — called a “ten.”

The numbers 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 refer to one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine tens (and 0 ones).

Science:

Read texts and use media to determine patterns in behavior of parents and offspring that help offspring survive.

Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and animals are alike, but not exactly like, their parents.

Social Studies:

Identify the events or people celebrated during United States national holidays and why we celebrate them (e.g., Independence Day, Constitution Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day; Presidents’ Day).

Use historical records and artifacts (e.g., photos, diaries, oral histories, and videos) to draw possible conclusions about family or school life in the past. 1 – H2.0.6 Compare life today with life in the past using the criteria of family, school, jobs, or communication.

Miller School is having a fundraiser to help children with leukemia.  Your child came home with a donation box to return to school with any donations they collect. They were told any loose change, dollar bills, checks, or whatever they could collect would be helpful. The class to raise the most money wins an Olive Garden luncheon.

If you would rather donate online, please cut and paste the link below.

Thanks for your support!

https://events.lls.org/pages/mi/MillerElementarySchoolDearborn-2019/wallclassroom

Your child should study their words at home every day to practice the skill we are focusing on for the week.  They will also be tested on 2 “mystery words” that also follow the weekly skill.

Our next test will be on Friday, May 17th.

Spelling Skill:  -oo words

Spelling Words:

1. wood
2. stood
3. took
4. foot
5. book
6. cook
7. pick
8. kind
9. early
10. own

**Modified List: wood, took, foot, book, kind**

Just a reminder that tomorrow is our class field trip to the Henry Ford Museum. Please have your child wear his/her Miller shirt for the trip. Also please be sure to pack a bagged lunch with a plastic water bottle in a disposable bag. We will have lunch at the museum and do not want to carry any extras with us while we are enjoying our trip. Thank you!

This week (5-6-19) we will be focusing on:

Reading:

Know and use various text features (e.g., headings, tables of contents, glossaries, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text.

Writing:

Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or name the book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply a reason for the opinion, and provide some sense of closure.

Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.

Math:

Compose two-dimensional shapes (rectangles, squares, trapezoids, triangles, half-circles, and quarter-circles) or three-dimensional shapes (cubes, right rectangular prisms, right circular cones, and right circular cylinders) to create a composite shape, and compose new shapes from the composite shape.

Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.

Partition circles and rectangles into two and four equal shares, describe the shares using the words halves, fourths, and quarters, and use the phrases half of, fourth of, and quarter of. Describe the whole as two of, or four of the shares. Understand for these examples that decomposing into more equal shares creates smaller shares.

Science:

Read texts and use media to determine patterns in behavior of parents and offspring that help offspring survive.

Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and animals are alike, but not exactly like, their parents.

Social Studies:

Identify the events or people celebrated during United States national holidays and why we celebrate them (e.g., Independence Day, Constitution Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day; Presidents’ Day).

Your child should study their words at home every day to practice the skill we are focusing on for the week.  They will also be tested on 2 “mystery words” that also follow the weekly skill.

Our next test will be on Friday, May 10th.

Spelling Skill:  -oo words

Spelling Words:

1. moon
2. tooth
3. balloon
4. room
5. broom
6. pool
7. hold
8. warm
9. full
10. done

***Modified List: moon, room, broom, pool, hold

Just a quick reminder that we have a late start tomorrow, April 24th.

School will begin at 9:30.

Thank you!

Your child should study their words at home every day to practice the skill we are focusing on for the week.  They will also be tested on 2 “mystery words” that also follow the weekly skill.

Our next test will be on Friday, April 26th.

Spelling Skill:  -ee words

Spelling Words: 

1. feel
2. peel
3. deep
4. free
5. need
6. green
7. about
8. never
9. seven
10. today

***Modified List: feel peel, deep, need, today

This week (4-15-19) we will be focusing on:

Reading:

Identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.

Writing:

Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or name the book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply a reason for the opinion, and provide some sense of closure.

Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.

Math:

Understand that the two digits of a two-digit number represent amounts of tens and ones. Understand the following as special cases:

Add within 100, including adding a two-digit number and a one-digit number, and adding a two-digit number and a multiple of 10, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used. Understand that in adding two-digit numbers, one adds tens and tens, ones and ones; and sometimes it is necessary to compose a ten.

Science:

Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs.

Demonstrate chronological thinking by distinguishing among past, present, and future using family or school events.