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May 10th, 2024

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Dear Families of First Grade,

The excitement for showcasing our writers boxed sets is contagious, they will not only showcase their work, but make emphasis on the tiger trait that their characters portray. We begin this new week by introducing our last Readers Workshop of the year Learning about the World. In our Science unit our engineers will redesign items that help during the rainy season. In math our students will find unknown numbers in a path full of pinecones and pebbles, keeping in mind that each of these represent a certain number of steps.

Looking forward to another powerful week of learning.

Thank you for your continued support.

Weekly Learning Goals & Tasks

English Literacy

Learning Goal

Reading: We are reintroducing our students to the world of nonfiction reading by celebrating the passion and curiosity of a biologist.

Phonics: Learners will take time to see that they should expect errors when they write, and they should study them and fix them. We will work and figure out capitalization.

What readers & writers are doing at school...

Reading: They will tap into their interests by looking at covers and blurb. Readers will look closley to each page to see shat they can learn, while asking questions to extend their learning.

Phonics: Readers and writers expect errors when they write, and they will study them to fix them. We will work with them to figure out capitalization for bloopers and nonbloopers sentences, and then rally them to work on their own.

What readers & writers could be doing at home...

Reading: Think about a topic you are interested in learning about, we invite you to check out a book at the library (iris.granados@ans.edu.ni) that matches your interest, model showing curiosity, looking closley and asking questions to extend your knowledge. Curious Readers Learn From Books

Phonics: Students will sing the song "When Do You Use a Capital Letter" to make sure they notice words that need capitals. Sing along and dance along to the music as you learn how to write those special words.

Spanish Literacy

Learning Goal

Los escritores pueden contar y actuar a medida que escriben

What readers & writers are doing at school...

Los escritores de cuentos podrán ensayar cada pequeño momento del cuento para imaginarse cada detalle antes de escribir, además, usarán conectores para unir cada escena del cuento.

What readers & writers could be doing at home...

En casa, puedes leer y notar como otros escritores de cuentos piensan en su audiencia y usan palabras específicas y dibujos que dan pistas de lo que ocurre en cada página.

Mathematics

Learning Goal

Students will solve addition story problems with sum to 20 involving situation of adding to and putting together, with unknown in all positions.

What mathematicians are doing at school...

Student will discover the differnt combinations of 1, 2, 5, 10 to make 20. Student will explaing their thinking and strategies used.

What mathematicians could be doing at home...

Home Connection Unit 7 Module 3 Session 2 Dots, Patterns, Blocks and Apples Children can play with this digital Place value with craft sticks game

Science or Social Studies

Learning Goal

What tigers are doing at school...

What tigers could be doing at home...

Social Emotional Learning Program

Learning Goal

Learners and friends understand how to communicate and cooperate in a team productively.

Learners and friends practice cooperating with peers in a shared activity.

What friends and learners are doing at school...

Friends and learners need communication skills to collaborate and work together. Cooperation is shown when kids listen to one another’s ideas, share, and help one another and when students promote fairness in playing and working together. Learners will learn how and why teamwork is important as they cooperate to challenges, recognizing they can do things together that they can’t do alone.

What friends and learners could be practicing at home...

In the books you read, look for situations that include teamwork or a situation in which a character refuses to participate in teamwork and discuss the results.