Overview of Week 10

LANGUAGE ARTS
Question of the week – How do wild animals take care of their babies?
Amazing Words – observe, wild, parent, canopy, screech, million, native, reserve
Phonics – inflected ending s, ing
Declarative Sentences
Recognize Main Idea and Details

MATH
Number Line Concepts
Add & Subtract on the Number Line
Tell Time to Half-Hour

SCIENCE
Seasons/Fall
Leaves

SOCIAL STUDIES
Systems
Goods & Services


Glitter Gifs

SPELLING Test on FRIDAY this week!

FIELD DAY

Wednesday morning, October 31st will be Field Day at Roberts for First Graders! We will be engaged in outdoor games and activities. Our class will be AYLMER'S ATHLETES!
Please have the kids wear athletic clothes and sneakers. You are welcome to come outside to watch the Field Day playground events, take photographs and cheer us on!!!

Overview of Week 9

LANGUAGE ARTS
Question of the week – How do animals help people?
Amazing Words –past, present, produce, transportation, danger, serve, snuggle, enormous, powerful
Phonics – plural s, s, short o
Predicates of Sentences
Identify and describe characters and setting

MATH
Number Stories
Visual Patterns
Even & Odd Numbers
Skip Counting

SCIENCE
Matter - Solids, Liquids, Gases

SOCIAL STUDIES
Systems
Fire Safety

HOW WE ORGANIZE OURSELVES

The first grade IB Planner Theme for the remainder of October will be "How We Organize Ourselves." The planner focuses on the interconnectedness of human-made systems and communities, and the structure and function of organization. The IB Central Idea for this Planner is: “Systems have parts that need to work together in order to be most effective.”

Students will improve their understanding of how families, classrooms, schools, clubs, cities, businesses, fire departments, and assembly line factories are organized. They will also discuss questions such as: What is a system? What are different types of systems? How do systems work? What are the rules, roles, and routines within a system? Why are rules, roles, and routines important within systems? What happens if one part of a system doesn’t work? How do the parts of the system affect the entire system? What systems am I a part of? What is my role in my system? How does my role affect the systems I am a part of? Which systems provide goods and services?

You can help your child by talking about the systems, rules, roles, and routines you have in your home. You may even want to challenge your child to think of ways to improve their present method of completing homework, cleaning up, dressing, getting ready for school, getting ready for bed, etc.

High-Frequency Word Evaluation

As part of current HISD promotion requirements, students in first grade must successfully read aloud words from the High-Frequency Word Evaluation (HFWE).

I incorporate the high-frequency words in their daily instruction in preparation for the administration of the High-Frequency Word Evaluation. I sent the HISD High Frequency List home today in your child's Blue Folder.

Because parents play an important role in helping their children become good readers, they are encouraged to read to their children and to have their children read to them daily. Additionally, parents can use flashcards and have students recognize high-frequency words in books and in the environment. Students should practice reading these words quickly and effortlessly.

The test will be administered twice, once in November to check the students progress and again in the spring. The children are to know the words by the spring, but I say…the sooner, the better!

Link to HFW List:
http://www.houstonisd.org/HISDConnectEnglish/Home/Parents%20&%20Students/Student%20Requirements/21-HFW1cardseng.pdf

Link to print flashcards:
http://houstonisd.org/Curriculum/Home/HFWE_WordCards_G1E_1213.pdf

Link for power point to read from computer:
http://houstonisd.org/Curriculum/Home/HFW_PPT_Gr1E_1213.ppt

Overview of Week 8

LANGUAGE ARTS
Question of the week – Who helps animals?
Amazing Words –career, service, tool, scrub, sloppy, exercise, comfort, search
Phonics – x, short i
Alphabetize
Describe the plot

MATH
Nickels
Counting Coins
Subtraction Number Models

SCIENCE
Magnets
Solids, Liquids, Gases

SOCIAL STUDIES
Systems
Fire Safety
International Festival

SPELLING TEST on THURSDAY!!!

We started Spelling this week! I sent home a note Monday explaining the word lists, activities, daily homework assignments, and THURSDAY tests. The spelling words will come home each Monday on the same list as the reading words. I also send home a blank form to do Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday night homework assignments. Practice, practice and become a STAR Speller!

Overview of Week 7

LANGUAGE ARTS
Question of the week – What do pets need?
Amazing Words – needs, responsibility, shelter, cuddle, tickle, faithful, fetch, heel
Phonics – ck, short a
Sentences
Identify characters and setting in realistic fiction

MATH
Telling Time to Hour
Exploring Lengths, Straightedges & Dominoes
Counting Pennies

SCIENCE
Magnets
How Objects Move

SOCIAL STUDIES
Christopher Columbus
Action Cycle
Friendship

Parent-Teacher Conferences

I have started scheduling Parent-teacher conferences! I plan to meet with every student’s parents during the month of October. You may sign up on the conference sheet outside the classroom or via e-mail. All conferences will take place in our classroom, and they are being scheduled at 20 minute intervals. Most conferences will occur on October 19, the early dismissal/International Festival Day, after school at 3:30 or before school at 7:20. Please let me know what day and time is convenient for you. THANK YOU!!!

SMILE!!!

We are having our school pictures taken on Thursday, October 4th at 10:20.

Overview of Week 6

LANGUAGE ARTS
Question of the week – What is around us in our neighborhood?
Amazing Words – bargain, browse, bustling, library, fact, cost, customer, scale
Phonics – qu, v, y, z, zz, short u
Adjectives

MATH
Unit 2
Number Grid
Numbers all around us

SCIENCE
Magnets
Push and Pull

SOCIAL STUDIES
Action Cycle
Friendships