This is a short week. It will be packed with learning, of course. hee hee

SEND In Your VALENTINES

As you can see, we are ready for your child’s Valentine. Please send in your child’s valentines on Monday.

• Monday, February 13 – Pizza Monday 1$
• Tuesday, February 14 – Valentine’s Day – We will open our valentines. Yay! We will also have some games.
• Wednesday, February 15 – LATE START 9:55 is the first bell
• Thursday, February 16 – PTA & Principal Meeting at 9:30
• Friday, February 17 – No School for students (professional development for teachers)
• Monday, February 20 – No School – Presidents Day
• Tuesday, February 21through Friday, February 24 – BOOK FAIR

ELA

We are learning about story elements in Unit 6 of our benchmark. The story elements include the characters, the setting (where they are), the problem, and the solution. Also, we are learning how to retell a story in order. This is a really good thing to start asking your first grader, after they read a book to you. You can apply it to watching a movie. You can even ask about your child’s day the same way.

Reading – Small group reading instruction is taught and levels of difficulty. I do not share this with first graders, because I want them to focus on their success and not their levels. To you, as a parent, I am sharing that the books increase in difficulty by having more words and variations of words. Your child should be at levels 10-11 at this point. Our goal is a level 16 by the end of first grade so that they are reading for second grade. We have some HUGE success stories in our classroom. I have some students that read their group books every night and they have jumped up in their book level.

So…please, please look for the book bag. Just have your first grader read their books to you or a big brother/sister, or grandparent. Any older person, who can help them learn to monitor their reading with accuracy. (Accuracy means that they read the words correctly and fix them when they don’t.)

Writing – We will finish our informational writing about a Geer Park friend. Then we are a writing assessment for informational writing in which your child will apply what they learned.

Spelling has the ay and ai vowel patterns

• stay
• gray
• spray
• pail
• wail
• mail
• grain
• rain
• brown
• work
• year
• live

MATH

We finished our Module 2 assessment on Friday. I did not bring them home to grade because it is going to be a busy weekend and I cannot send them home until the other first grade classes take the assessment. We are going to practice using base ten blocks on Monday and Tuesday. Then we will start Module 3 on Wednesday. It is about measurement and comparing the sizes.

SCIENCE

We are finishing up learning about 4 of the 8 phases of the Moon by completing a project with Oreos. Moon Facts: The Moon is the only natural satellite of the Earth. It takes 27.3 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth. The Moon is the 5th largest moon in our solar system. We only ever see one side of the Moon. We never see the far side. The Moon reflects light from the Sun. The Earth gently spins on its axis because of the gravitational relationship between the Moon and the Earth. If we didn’t have the Moon, the Earth would wobble.

SOCIAL STUDIES

We started learning about land and water, specifically what the Earth looks like from space or even an airplane.

Thank you for your support. Have a great weekend and week to come.

Mrs. Korte