Overview of Week 21

LANGUAGE ARTS
Question of the week – How do places change?
Amazing Words – growth, population, public, suffle, crooked, teeter,
Makeshift, spindly
Phonics – Vowel Sounds of y, Syllable pattern cv
Action Verbs
Sequence

MATH
What’s My Rule?
Easy Facts

SCIENCE
Simple Machines
Ground Hog Day

SOCIAL STUDIES
Technology
US Mail & E-Mail
February Calendar

EAR BUDS

We will be starting Rosetta Stone Spanish in our classroom. We will be using iPads and students will need headphones. For hygiene reasons, we are asking that parents supply a set of iPad compatible ear buds (headphones) for your child. Please send these with your child in a Ziploc bag and their name written on it as soon as possible.

Overview of Week 20

LANGUAGE ARTS
Question of the week – How is an insect like a community of people?
Amazing Words – individual, industrious, special, creep, slither, romp, eagerly, wander
Phonics – Long e, Syllable Pattern VC/CV
Nouns in Sentences
Compare & Contrast

MATH
Dice Sums
Turn-Around Facts
Easy Facts

SCIENCE
Simple Machines

SOCIAL STUDIES
Martin Luther King
Long Ago & Today
U.S. President’s Job

THANK YOU!!!

I want to thank everyone for the flowers, cupcakes and money! It was a GREAT birthday!!! I am extremely lucky to have sush a wonderful, generous class!
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Overview of Week 19

LANGUAGE ARTS
Question of the week – How are plant and animals communities important to each other?
Amazing Words – environment, require, thrive, inhale, slimy, sludge, capture, creature
Phonics – Long u, Inflective Ending ed
Singular & Plural Nouns
Identify the Author’s Purpose

MATH
Place Value, Tens & Ones
More Than & Less Than Number Stories
Solving Number Stories

SCIENCE
Matter
Measurement Tools

SOCIAL STUDIES
Martin Luther King
Long Ago & Today;
Schools, Transportation & Communication

What Was It Like?

The first grade IB Planner Theme for this month is "Where We Are in Place and Time." The central idea is that discoveries in technology affect our lives. Students will mainly focus on changes in transportation and communication, but many other aspects of life and change will naturally come into discussion and consideration. Our specific IB inquiries for this planner are into: (1) how human connections have changed; and (2) similarities and differences in technology, across time and in comparison to each other.

Our activities in this Planner will broaden your child’s awareness of history, inventions, and change. Students will be provided with nonfiction books at various reading levels, and will have opportunities to determine and write interesting facts during individual and small group research. Your child will share research information through oral presentations, write about past and present modes of transportation and communication, and try to invent forms of transportation and communication for the future.

In a few weeks, your child will participate in a small group project in which students will choose or create visuals for a report, arrange graphics for a presentation board, and analyze and write about the positive and negative aspects of technological changes. Students will also continue their study and use of the Independent Investigation Method (IIM) of research. By the end of this Planner, your child should be able to discuss the seven steps of the IIM process with you!

Overview of Week 18

LANGUAGE ARTS
Question of the week – How do animals communities work together
to survive?
Amazing Words – enemy, extinct, protect, crater, holler, swamp,
bluff, boisterous
Phonics – Long o
Proper Nouns
Identify Sequence

MATH
Place Value, Tens  & Ones
Greater Than and Less Than

SCIENCE
Matter

SOCIAL STUDIES
Goals & Resolutions
Transportation
Communication

WELCOME 2013!

I hope you had a wonderful and restful holiday. I did!



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In January, The Texas Primary Reading Inventory will be administered to all first graders between January 14 and January 25. Your child will be assessed on proficiency in oral reading, reading speed, and comprehension. Please continue to have your child read to an adult at least 20 minutes per day, 7 days a week, as part of the first grade homework. Your child should read to you from a book on or close to his/her reading level, such as the Book Trade supplementary reader.


I look forward to a GREAT 2013!