Mrs. Guest's Class

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Weekly News-Week 32

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Reading Workshop: Non-Fiction study-what do we already know and how can we confirm or change our thoughts?

Language Arts: Choosing Non-fiction books

Writing: Choosing and brainstorming a Non-fiction topic to write about

Phonics/Spelling: 2 sounds of y (y=long i; y=long e)

Social Studies: Natural resources and how we use them

Math: Measurement-Area with non-standard units

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Weekly News-Week 31

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Reading Workshop: Begin a Non-fiction Study

Language Arts: Build a sentence

Writing: Poetry writing-narrowing our topic

Phonics/Spelling: ou; -est; adding suffixes -er and -est

Social Studies: Goods and Services

Math: Measurement-Length (measuring with non-standard units)

Monday, April 4, 2011

Weekly News-Week 30

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Reading Workshop: Celebrate our improved fluency!

Language Arts: Thesaurus skills; Compare and Contrast

Writing: Poetry writing-writing the music of poetry; narrow down our topic

Phonics/Spelling: al/all=all; adding the suffix -ed

Social Studies: Needs vs. Wants

Math: Time-analog and digital (to the hour and half hour)

Time is the perfect topic to work on at home! Have your child recognize times for different scheduled activities on an analog and digit clock. They can help you tell what time they have sports practice, what time the family eats dinner, what time their favorite TV show comes on and what time to go to bed! Please work on this to reinforce the everyday use of telling time.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Weekly News-Week 29

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Reading Workshop: Fluency strategies-reading with voice to match the character's feelings

Language Arts: Contractions

Writing: Poetry writing-seeing regular things with a different view

Phonics/Spelling: oi in the middle of the word, oy at the end of the word

Science: Force and motion

Math: Time-duration of time and sorting events shortest to longest

Friday, March 25, 2011

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Important papers this week!

Please look for a field trip permission form and a chance to order our class published book! If you did not get either of these, please let me know!

Weekly News-Week 28

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Reading Workshop: Fluency strategies, talking about books with a partner

Language Arts: Nouns, Adjectives, Verbs

Writing: How to writing

Phonics/Spelling: 2 sounds of ow (like cow and snow)

Social Studies: Texas symbols

Math: Addition strategies; find the missing addend

Monday, March 7, 2011

Homework this week

Homework might look a little different this week. Here are some major changes for the week:

1. Spelling and Reading Log are the only homework for this week. Please have them ready on THURSDAY, in order to give more time for Campout on Friday.

2. Spelling Test will be on THURSDAY. Please take your practice test on Wednesday evening.

CAMPOUT!

Dear Parents,

This year, we have really grown as readers! We would love to celebrate our reading success as a class before we leave for Spring Break.

Friday, March 11^th, first grade will be having their First Annual Reading Campout! This is a day to celebrate all the things we have accomplished as readers. To celebrate, we plan to do many fun reading activities that include:

1. Reading in the Dark- Bring sleeping bags, blankets and flashlights… Get cozy and read like we are in the woods!

2. Super Reader’s Scavenger Hunt-read a list and hunt for things outside!

3. Read a recipe… for S’mores-Of course, we will eat them, too!

4. Listen to camping stories and pretend like we are in the woods!

We hope that this reading celebration continues to promote excitement about reading! Please feel free to send sleeping bags, blankets, lanterns or flashlights no earlier than the Friday of the campout.

Weekly News-Week 27

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Reading Workshop: Improving fluency

Language Arts: Word Attack with Reading Strategies

Writing: How to writing

Phonics/Spelling: 2 sounds of oo (like boot and foot)

Social Studies: Texas symbols

Math: Problem solving

Monday, February 28, 2011

Weekly News-Week 26

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Reading Workshop: Celebrate characters we love!

Language Arts: Dictionary skills; ABC order; Dr. Seuss author study

Writing: Dr. Suess writing

Phonics/Spelling: "Bossy R" (er/ir/ur) and or/ore

Social Studies: Texas symbols

Math: Practicing place value

** We are playing this fun, easy game called CAPTURE all week to practice our place value skills. All you need is a deck of cards... ask your child how to play! It's fun!

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Weekly News-Week 24

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Reading Workshop: Thinking about character reactions

Language Arts: Cause and effect

Writing: Making sure our writing is fluent-connecting sentences and starting out our stories with exciting words

Phonics/Spelling: 2 sounds of ea (ea=long e; like eat; ea=short e; like bread)

Social Studies: American Symbols

Math: Identifying coins

ALERT: More learning ahead! Now that we are learning how to identify coins, it would be a great idea to let your child have more experience at home. Have them count out coins laying around the house, gather enough money for your McDonald's order or look for prices around the grocery store!