This Week in Room 8 (8/21 to 8/25)

Welcome to first grade! We will be busy this week learning more about one another in the classroom. We will also be learning about our routines and expectations in the classroom as well as when we

transition from one place to another in the school. 

We are learning that our room is a safe place to make mistakes (since we are growing our brains and learning from our mistakes) and where we can learn from one another respectfully.

ELA:

This week we will be working on the following skills:

• Review kindy sight words
• Review consonant sounds
• Introduce "Stretchy Snake" where we segment and blend sounds together when we decode unknown words
• Continue to work on brave spelling where we "turtle talk" to write down the sounds that we hear when we sound out the word s-l-o-w-l-y
• Learn about how words are made of letters/sounds, sentences are made of words and spaces that begin with a capital letter and end with punctuation
• Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence (e.g., first word, capitalization, ending punctuation).
• Capitalize dates (day of the week and month) and names of people.

MATH:

This week we will be working on the following skills:

• Order 3 objects by length
• Compare the length of the two objects indirectly by using a third object
• Number writing 
• Number sequence- what comes next?

Vocabulary: Critical Terms: model, units, measure, order, compare, data Supplemental Terms: longer, shorter, fewer, greater, equal, count, number, numeral