Tuesday: Tuesday folders come home. Please return signed Tuesday folders on Wednesday morning. Report cards for the second 9 weeks come home. Please sign the brown envelope and return, but keep the report card for your reference.
Wednesday: No library this week.
Friday: Math and Reading Homework Due
Fairy Tale Parade @9:00
HOMEWORK: Look for book bags today. Students are to read this “just right” book then retell the story and answer questions about the story. Think about the beginning, middle and end. Was there a problem in the story? Was there a solution? A reading passage and math homework page will be sent home in tomorrow’s Tuesday folder.
FAIRY TALE PARADE: Friday is the first grade fairy tale parade. Create a simple costume to be a favorite character from a fairy tale or folktale. Your child may want to be Cinderella, Jack (from Jack and the Beanstalk), a little pig (from Three Little Pigs) or others. Have fun and get creative! If your child chooses not to dress up they may still participate in the parade!
READING
This week we will learn about fables. A fable is another type of story passed down from generation to generation and told to teach a lesson about something. Fables are about animals, plants, or forces of nature like sun or wind that can talk and act like people or cause things to happen in the story because of their strength. The most famous fables were written by a man called Aesop and this week we will read a variety of Aesop's stories.
WRITING
In writing, we will continue writing expository texts. The children have made a list of things that they are expert at and can teach others. This week, they will write about their subject with details. Their goal is to teach others about something they are expert at and know so well.
MATH
We will review place value in 2-digit numbers. We will work with tens and ones and compare 2-digit numbers. When comparing the two digit numbers, we will look at the digits in tens place first. If those are the same, then we will move to the digits in ones place. We will also examine the numbers in hundred chart and notice the patterns in numbers. For example, all numbers in one row have the same number of tens and all numbers in one column has the same number of ones. We will order the 2-digit numbers from least to greatest or greatest to least.
SCIENCE
This week in science we will learn about force and movement. Energy causes force and force causes motion/movement. Force can be defined as a "push" or a "pull" which causes objects to move in different ways such as straight line, zigzag, up and down, side to side, round and round, fast and slow.
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