This Week in Room 8 (11/27 to 12/1)

MAP Testing

We will begin our MAP testing next week. We will be testing Tuesday, December 5th - Friday, December 8th. Please make sure your child has a good night's sleep, a good breakfast, and working headphones. 

ELA

This week we are working on identifying and explaining the purpose of different non-fiction text features. We know that informational text/non-fiction text gives information and does not tell a story. Some of the text features we are learning more about are on this list from Wilkes-Barre Area School District's website- please click the link below:

text features, definitions, and examples

We are also learning about how -ed endings show that the verb is past tense. We are understanding the different sounds -ed can make, even though we spell all of the past tense verbs with -ed. We are also learning when to double the consonant before adding the -ed ending (when there is one vowel and one consonant following the vowel in the base word).

Sight Words

• don't
• right
• their
• call
• sleep

Reading

• Continue focus on non-fiction text features
• Continue working on finding text evidence when answering questions

Math

• Determine if equations involving addition and or subtraction are true or false
• Applying our knowledge of numbers to solve <, =, and >
• determine unknown addends or minuends in addition and subtraction sentences
• review organizing, representing and interpreting data in a graph 

This Week in Room 8 (11/6- 11/10)

Friday, November 10th is no school in observance of Veterans Day. 

Our annual Special Someone's Day is coming up on Friday, November 17th. For those who are new to Kipling, Special Someone Day is when up to two people who are special to your child can come and spend a half hour with your child in our classroom. This can be a parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, family friend, etc. 1st Grade's Special Someone time is from 9:45-10:15. 

Please click on the this link to fill out the form letting the school know who will be coming for your child. 

Please let me know if no one will be able to come for your child as I would like to be able to provide a special someone in the school to be there for your child.

In conjunction with Special Someone Day, the annual Scholastic Book Fair will be going on. Your child's special someone can feel free to go to big gym and view the Book Fair after their time in your child's classroom. Unfortunately, students will not be available to go with their special someone to the Book Fair. 

ELA

This week we will be working on the following skills:

Phonics

• r controlled vowels ar, ur, er , ir, or
• ch/wh/sh/th
• adding -s and -es for plural words

Grammar

• Verbs  - action words

Sight Words

• review 

Reading

• Focus on non-fiction text features- table of contents, headings, photographs, captions, index, glossary, diagrams etc. 
• Identifying main ideas and details in non-fiction and informational text.

Writing

We are beginning our next unit of writing - non fiction. Students will be learning how to write about topics they want to teach others

Math

• Addition (adding doubles, adding with/without regrouping)
• Subtraction (counting back, using a number line/hundreds chart)
• understanding the meaning of the equal sign.  (5 + 3 = 4 + 4 reading as 8 is the same as 8)
• determine if equations involving addition and/or subtraction are true or false.

Science

• How do plants and animals take in food, water, air and light?
• How do plants and animals stay safe?

Leader in Me
Students will. . .

• identify ways that we have been effective leaders.
• identify areas of leadership that we find challenging.