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August 30th, 2024

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Dear Tiger Parents,

Another amazing and golden week of classes in first grade. For our first graders, it’s a period of magical discovery as they develop alertness and observation skills like mathematicians using our ten frames and number rack to make combinations of 5 and 10 and increasing in developing problem solving skills that are crucial for decision making, critical thinking, and logical reasoning.

In writing, children begin to spread their wings in getting to know that writers have to be careful that their tiny seed stories do not grow into big watermelon stories. To keep them small, they start and end close to the main part of the story, then the main thing.

They’re feeling confident, independent, and eager to take on new challenges in every writing process, so our “Narrative Writing Books” are sharpening their perception of the world. During phonics, we were full of high quality strategies to study blends and diagraphs in names. In content, students’ faculty of comprehension is growing along with their capacities for understanding how our families are essential and a huge motivation to create memorable events in our lives. Thank you so much for your continued support.

All the best!

Weekly Learning Goals & Tasks

English Literacy

Learning Goal

Writing: Focus on revision as a powerful tool for adding details because when we think we are done with a story, we ‘ve actually just begun.

Phonics: Take time to look at sounds and letters by studying them closely to learn new sounds and rules.

What readers & writers are doing at school...

Writing: Writers of Small Moments will revise several stories they wrote taking into account that they can develop their own ways to use materials for revision.

Phonics: Readers and writers will work together to make new sounds and also they will start seeing patterns in order to make rules about how words often work. Tigers will also continue to learn new snap words.

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

Writing: As a writer, you will teach a family member about Revision Strategies because now you are an expert using our “Revision Song”. Sing the song and explain how to apply the lyrics when you write stories.

Phonics: Use what we practice about letters and sounds to read the book Which pet would you get?. Make sure to identify Blends and diagrphs that we are studying together.

Spanish Literacy

Learning Goal

Buenos Hábitos antes,durantes y después de leer.

What readers & writers are doing at school...

Los lectores continúan leyendo hasta sonar con fluidez, prestando atención a las sílabas que forman las palabras y haciendo una verificación lenta deslizándose por las sílabas para asegurarse que lo hicieron bien.

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

En casa escoge un compañero de lectura recuerda puedes hacer un plan de lectura y una lectura detallada, vete de aventura a Museos y más museos.

Mathematics

Learning Goal

Explore part-part- whole relationships with numbers to 20.

What mathematicians are doing at school...

Students will solve story problems with missing addends using their number racks.

What mathematicians could be doing at home...

Home Connection Unit 1 Module 3 Session 2 Show Me Combinations page 1 Show Me Combinations page 2 Due on Wednesday, September 4 Practice at Home Activity #2 Practice making 10 with the number rack

Science or Social Studies

Learning Goal

Students will be introduced to the concept of family stories and traditions and begin exploring what families do together.

What tigers are doing at school...

Students will have an opportunity to find commonalities amongst their classroom community and to recognize their sense of belonging at home. Students will create a storybook that tells the story of their own family using pictures, drawings, and artifacts.

What tigers could be doing at home...

Students can ask family members about their traditions and beliefs that make their family UNIQUE.

Social Emotional Learning Program

Learning Goal

Friends and learners will learn about relaxation station

What friends and learners are doing at school...

Friends and learners will learn how to regulate their emotions and find strategies to calm down during intense feelings such as breathing techniques

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

Friends and learners can find a spot where they feel safe and comfortable to regulate their emotions and do strategies. It is important to remember that this is not a time out or punishment zone but a zone of regulation