Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Good evening!  Welcome back from the long weekend.  I hope everyone enjoyed the extra time with family.

DAILY REMINDERS:
  • Homework:  Spelling worksheet. 
  • PTO Meeting tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m.
  • Spelling Test on Friday, November 9.
  • Weekly Reading Record due on Friday, November 9.
  • Library on Friday, too.
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF YOUR FIRST GRADER:
  • Shared Reading:  We read the story On Top of Spaghetti, and we highlighted all the words with the long e sound.
  • Word Work:  We learned our new words (Week 11) and discussed that some of them have a word family chunk at the end.  The words are will, am, black, do, have.  It is likely that our Friday test will also have words in the -ill, -am, and -ack family on it.
  • Daily 5/Guided Reading:  We continue to read books on our level and move to the next level when appropriate.  Along with reading new books every day, we also write in our journals about the stories we read and do word work using magnetic letters, dry erase boards and markers.
  • Math:  Our new chapter covers patterns.  We will be learning how to identify patterns and pattern units.  We will also learn how to extend patterns and continue patterns with different shapes or colors.  Your first grader should have brought home a yellow math parent letter tonight.  Please let me know if you did not receive this, and I will send another letter home.
  • Social Studies:  Today we worked on map skills.  We know what a MAP KEY and COMPASS ROSE is used for on a map.  We can identify the directions (North-Never, East-Eat, South-Soggy, West-Waffles) and map key symbols on a map. 

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