This Week in Room 8 (3/12 to 3/16)

ELA:
This week we will be working on the following skills:

• substituting final sounds in words
• long u spelled oo, ue, u_e, ew, u
• review adding endings to words (-ed, -ing, -er, -est)
• review contractions

Word Wall Words:

• kind
• fall
• carry
• small
• own

Writing:

This week we will be working on setting out to write a series. 

We will be learning how to do the following:

• use the same pretend characters from our first stories 
• to start a new day or night in each story
• have things happen in the same place
• include the same friend, pet, brother, sister
• write different adventures

Comprehension:

We will be taking a different perspective of analyzing the characters in the story by working on the following skills:

• seeing the characters in the scenes of their stories
• paying special attention to the world of their character by noticing tiny details of the scenes
• paying attention to the entire story in an effort to understand "big happenings" and how these big events impact the central message and/or the lessons in their stories.
• paying attention to comprehend characters by noting the predictable patterns of series books

MATH:

This week we will be working on the following skills:

• fractions
• continued 2-D and 3-D skill practice
• adding and subtracting with/without regrouping
• solving and explaining strategies with word problems

SCIENCE:

We will be taking a look and learning more about rainbows this week!

LEADER IN ME:

We are gearing up for our student 1st Grade Leadership Assembly on Wednesday. Please remember to have your child wear pajamas to school on Wednesday.

Did you know that Kipling has collected 165 pajama/book sets for the Pajama Program? This is amazing! Thank you so much for your generous donations. If you are still looking to donate, you can turn in new pajamas/books with your child through Monday, March 19th.