FIRST GRADE FIRST FIELD TRIP
Our first field trip to Austin Nature Center will be on Monday, December 7th. This week in your child's Tuesday folder, you will receive a Field Trip Permission Slip. More detailed information is included in the permission slip. Please sign the permission slip and send it back by Wednesday, Dec. 2nd. Thank you!
IMPORTANT REMINDERS
Tuesday: Tuesday folders come home. Please return signed Tuesday folders every Wednesday morning.
Please make sure you check your child’s Daily Folder each night and initial the day to show me you saw the information.
Wednesday: Library this week. Please return books by 8:00 am.
Friday: Math and reading homework is due. There is not a reading or math paper to turn in this week.
Nov. 23-27: Holiday
HOMEWORK
Look for this week’s Reading homework in tomorrow’s Tuesday folder. Using the Time for Kids Magazine, create a book and read about Energy. This is a great way to read nonfiction and review our Science unit. As you read, think about the facts learned. No need to return the booklet.
For Math, login and explore IXL math. Go the Caraway website http://caraway.roundrockisd.org/ Then go to “Students”. Under “Math”, go to “IXL”. IXL works best in Chrome. Add your child’s username and password. These can be found in you blue daily folder on our information page. Go to “First Grade”. We have begun working on this website in class. Your child is welcome to work on any activity that we have introduced, such as counting, addition, and subtraction. This site can be used any time and will be assigned as homework from time to time.
This week:
READING
This week, we will read a variety of non-fiction and fiction stories about Thanksgiving. In non-fiction, we will dig deeper into important information vs. small interesting details. When writers write non-fiction, they include a lot of details to make the writing interesting. A detail is a bit of information about something. These details make the book or article more interesting, but the details are not the most important information. When we are learning about something, we can't remember all the information that we come across. We have to try to figure out what information is the most important.
In Fiction, we will review the elements of fiction such as the plot of the story, the beginning, middle and ending, and the characters.
WRITING
We will continue to tell and write the story of Thanksgiving in our own words. The children have, so far, written about the Pilgrims, the journey on the Mayflower and the first winter in America. . This week, we will write about the Native Americans, and the first Thanksgiving. As we write, we will be emphasizing on neat and clear illustrations, neat writing and following the writing rules: Correct letter formation, starting with capitals, end with correct punctuation and leaving one finger space between the words.
MATH
This week in subtraction we will work on the concept "part-part whole". Addition is adding the parts and subtraction is taking away a part from the whole to find the other part. We will work on problems that involve finding a whole, or a missing part. we will also re-visit the number line and use number line to solve the problems that involve subtraction
SOCIAL STUDIES
This week in social studies, we will learn about the concepts of time and chronology. We will describe and measure calendar time by days, weeks, months, and years and create a simple classroom calendar and timeline. We want our students to understand and distinguish among, past, present, and future. We will also begin learning about holidays celebrated throughout the year.