Welcome to First Grade!

January 5-9

Language Arts

Stories: Sheep Out to Eat

            "In a Winter Meadow"

Phonics:  digraphs (-sh, -ch, -th, -wh, -ph)

Vocabulary: chomp, appetite, pout, commotion  

Grammar: statement vs. exclamatory sentences 

Writing:  fantasy field trip, imaginary class pet 

Lightning Words:  work, after, read, head, never, ever, give, only, live

Math

• Unit 2 - Addition and Subtraction Within 20

  *Lesson 9 - Use a 10 to subtract

    Objectives: 

*Students will undertand and apply the strategy of decomposing a single digit number to get to 10 when subtracting it from a teen number.

*Students will use 10 as a benchmark number when subtracting from teen numbers in parts. 

*Students will use and articulate mental math strategies to subtract based on familiar addition strategies. 

          Vocabulary: 

*fact family, make a 10, teen numbers, tens