This Week in Room 8 (4/30 to 5/4)

ELA:
This week we continue with our Cinderella unit. This week we will read versions from Korea and China. As we read, we will make connections, compare and contrast, and identify key details in the text. We will also make observations from the common key elements in fairy tales. We will dig deeper this week at writing how the two stories are alike and different.


We will also work on the following skills:

• Including specific examples from text as we compare and contrast
• Determining the order of sentences in a paragraph
• Revisiting context clues to help understand the meaning of an unknown word

We have finished with our first grade Word Wall list. This week we are focusing on understanding the differences between their, there, they're, your, you're, too, to, and two!

This week in writing we will begin our Poetry Unit!

MATH:

We will continue to work on the following skills at our "just right" levels:

• telling time to the hour, half-hour (quarter-hour, five minutes, and exact time)
• money
• using our knowledge of the hundreds chart to add numbers within 100 (Example of the strategy thinking: 53 +24... Find the larger number, 53 on the hundreds chart. Add two groups of 10 by going down two rows on the hundreds chart counting 10, 20. At this point, you are on 73. Now, add four to the number and you end up on 77). 

If you are looking for ways to challenge your child at home, please explore Freckle! Your child can work on his/her adaptive level on both ELA or Math skills on the app. Please let me know if you have any questions!

Science:

We are going to learn more about how shadows change depending on the time of day. We will build, draw, and observe!