FEBRUARY

NIEBERGALL FIRST GRADE RM. 215

REMINDERS:

1. FEBRUARY 6 1:40 DISMISSAL

2. FEBRUARY 20 NO SCHOOL

FEBRUARY 21 1:40

Reading Workshop:Good Readers:

  • Can be WORD DETECTIVES and use strategies & tools to solve hard words.
  • Continue to use Post-its to jot down information from their books
  • Continue to use their reading journals
  • Use their HOME reading logs and book baggies & the class baggy
  • Use the READING COMPREHENSION strategies sheet to better understand stories
  • Will add reading strategies including: looking for the BIG IDEA; looking for details and other reading strategies

Helping out at home:

  • Take your child to the library and encourage them to use what they learned to help them pick out books they would be interested in reading at home!
  • Read nightly to your child and be their reading buddy, helping them to

practice good listening and sharing. (BOOK BAGGIES/LOG)

Writing Workshop:Good Writers:

  • Complete, publish and share OPINION writing
  • Review the “rules of writing” such as: proper sentence formation, using sounds to spell words and using sight words
  • Remember to add pictures with LABELS to their writing
  • Encourage your child to tell you
  • Encourage your child to REVISE & check their writing in all subjects
  • Encourage your child toshare their OPINIONS about things and ALWAYS TELL WHY!!
  • share what they have been doing during WRITING class each day!

Word Study: We will be learning:

  • Sight words we need to practicevocabulary words
  • Continue PHONICS including: parts of speech and grammar
  • Continuing to use sounds to write words that may be tricky for us
  • Continue sorts, spelling and sentences for our own spelling words.

Helping out at home:

  • Have your child practice writing at home-even if it is simply investigating the spelling of a word that may be challenging for them
  • Encourage your child to use their knowledge of letter sounds to SOUND OUT tricky words and practice writing them

Math:Good Mathematicians:

•Count to 120 starting at any number less than 120. (1.NBT.1)

•Read, write numerals, and represent a number of objects with a written numeral. (1.NBT.1)

•Read, write and represent numbers 11-19 as composed of a ten and correct number of ones. (1.NBT.2)

•Read, write, and represent the numbers 20 through 90 as composed of the correct number of tens. (1.NBT.2)

•Compare two two-digit numbers based on meaning of tens and ones digits. (1.NBT.3)

•Add a two-digit number and a multiple of ten. (1.NBT.4)

•Mentally add or subtract 10 from a given two-digit number and explain reasoning. (1.NBT.5)

  • Remember when PROBLEM SOLVING we: show a picture, show the number sentence (equation) and tell HOW we solved
  • Continue to ADD tools to their class MATH TOOLBAG-includes: number line, number grid, manipulatives, etc

Helping out at home:

  • Enforce math practice time
  • Encourage I-ready MATH lessons at home.

Science:Good Scientists:

  • Understand changes in WEATHER. Understand weather and season changes.

Helping out at home:

  • Discuss why we wear different clothes as the weather changes
  • Discuss the weather and forecasts with your child.
  • Talk with your child and ask them to share their science learning with you-either from class science or from science lab classes

Social Studies: Good Citizens:

  • Begin to understand that countries have HISTORY to them
  • Understand the importance of BLACK HISTORY month.
  • Helping out at home:
  • Encourage your child to explore the history of the country that your family identifies with
  • Talk with your child and ask them to share their social studies learning with you

WEBSITES:

(free) we have been using a base ten math game

(free) NEW first grade skills added

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