Saturday, January 27, 2018

This Week in Room 8 (1/29 to 2/2)

This week we begin Quarter 3 in 1st Grade!

ELA: 
We started our new unit on Leadership and Good Citizens. We will be reading a wide-range of fiction and non-fiction text to learn more about leadership qualities and characteristics of a good citizen.

Skills that we will be working on this week include:

  • Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses
  • Understand the differences between words, phrases, and sentences
  • Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories
  • Understand "who" and "what" within stories
  • Understand what an adventure is
  • Understand what an experience is
  • Revisiting contractions
Word Wall Words:
  • found     
  • because    
  • best    
  • upon     
  • these
Writing:
We continue to work on skills for writing opinion papers. 

Math:
This week we will continue to work on the following skills:
  • Place Value and place value regrouping
  • Continued reinforcement with adding, subtracting, and multiplication
  • Showing thinking and solving word problems
  • Organize, interpret, and represent data from a graph
Science:
This week we will continue to learn about sound and how sound travels!

Rooted Mind:
This week our root is "naut-, naus-, nav- " (which means sailor, ship)





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