1st Grade
Home Base
October 13th, 2023
1st Grade News
Dear Families,
Students are very proud of their job as a detectives. They have discovered the Mistery of the silent e, and how this tricky vowel found at the end of words works. They have detective notebooks to write every word they encounter and study with silent e. They even earned a Detective Badge for their amazing work! Let's celebrate their learning together, take some time to ask them to teach you about silent e.
Weekly Learning Goals & Tasks
English Literacy
Learning Goal
Reading: Read by analogy, noticing when a known and unknown words look similar , and use parts of the known word to decode the unknown word.
PHONICS: Focus on studying phonograms with long “A” patterns to make new words.
What readers & writers are doing at school...
READING: Word Detctives will decode new words by asking "Does this look like a word I know?" They will be on the lookout for vowel teams, 2 vowels side by side. They will also learn to be flexible by trying the sound for vowel teams 2 ways.
PHONICS: Readers and writers will show their power by using their knowledge of CVCe words with long “A” patterns to make new words.
What readers & writers could be doing at home...
READING: Use all your strategies from the Anchor Chart to read this book, The Case of the Beep make sure to be on the lookout, looking for words parts you know to solve unknown words. Remeber to be flexible with your vowel sounds and try them 2 ways.
PHONICS: Use what we practice about “Phonograms: ane/ ate/ ake/ ame” to read the book “All Kinds of Animals”. Remember to identify, write and repeat words with long “A” patterns at the end of the word.
Spanish Literacy
Learning Goal
Escribir para lectores, pensarán en palabras que sean directamente para los lectores.
What readers & writers are doing at school...
Los escritores de libros instructivos pensarán directamente en su lector como si estuvieran conversando con él usando la palabra " tù " , además, pensarán en palabras que describan ( adjetivos ) con detalles cada paso, tomarán decisiones de agregar advertencias o consejos para que el lector no se equivoque.
What readers & writers could be doing at home...
Leer el libro Cómo hacer un tambor, recuerda deslizarte sobre las sílabas en las palabras difíciles. Conversa con tus padres, ¿Qué te gustaría imitar de la escritura de Anthony ( autor del libro)? Puedes releer la página 5 del libro, Puedes encontrar el consejo que el escritor le da a su lector? Por qué crees que le da ese consejo?
Mathematics
Learning Goal
Use the relationship of between addition and subtraction to add and suntract within 10.
What mathematicians are doing at school...
Students will use double-flap number cards to solve addition and subtracton facts and compare different number combinations using the signs > < =
What mathematicians could be doing at home...
Home Connection Unit 2 Module 2 Session 5 Due Thursday October 12 Activity 1 Dominoes
Science or Social Studies
Learning Goal
5-day Science Project: Collaboration & Engagement
What tigers are doing at school...
Represent real-world places on a map. Students explore the meaning and purpose of maps, the tools that help us represent places, the purposes of those tools, and how we use those tools to read and make maps. This inquiry provides a foundation for students to develop their geographic reasoning and map literacy, both of which are critical to understanding how humans interact with geography and geographic features across time and space.
What tigers could be doing at home...
Read this Book called Following the Map and notice how the girls uses the map to get into a place. You can use this book to complete one of your reading responses of the week!
Social Emotional Learning Program
Learning Goal
1. Learners and friends understand that situations have emotional consequences.
2. Learners and friends think about the cause of emotional reactions.
3. Learners and friends use situational clues to help identify emotions in themselves and others.
What friends and learners are doing at school...
Counselor explains how different situations allow us to have emotional reactions, for example we can feel different emotions both in class and on the playground. They also learned that each person can react differently to the same situation. Then, through collaborative work, children share with each other what emotional reactions they have in different scenarios.
What friends and learners could be practicing at home...
Having a family conversation, you could share questions and answers such as: How would you feel if…you were going on a train? How would you feel if…you saw a dog alone in the park? How would you feel if…the teacher painted the classroom walls bright pink? How would you feel if… your teacher asked you to sing in front of class? How would you feel if… a group of second graders asked you to play on their soccer team? How would you feel if…Hungry Tiger served vegetable pizza for lunch?
CONNECT
Upcoming Events
Oct. 14
Basketball
Tiger Fun Day
Oct. 18
11:00 a.m. Student Dismissal
Oct. 20
Feedback Folders
Sent Home
Oct. 24
Kindergarten
Parent Workshop
Oct. 27
The Magic of Books
Fall Festival
Oct. 31
Normal School
Day - Uniforms Required
Reminders
Today we are sending home our Friday Feedback Folder.
1A: Swimming from October 09 to October 27.
Make sure to read and write everyday. Attached you will find links to Blends & Digraphs Chart, Vowel Chart and Word Wall.
Special Announcements
October - Calendar
Swimming
Big Questions Day
Meet the Team!
Mrs. Gema Pereira
1A
Ms. Claudia Romero
1B
Mrs. Daniela Carrión
1C
Mrs. Ma. José Bravo
1D
Betzaida Oviedo
1A Paraprofessional
Adriana Zeledón
1B Paraprofessional
Denissa Estrada
1C Paraprofessional
Kathya Blanco
1D Paraprofessional
Mrs. Dámaris Valdivia
First Grade
Spanish Lead
Cristina Melendez
1st Grade
Spanish Paraprofessional
Mrs. Mercedes Estrada
First Grade
Inclusion Lead