Mrs. Lewis' Classroom News

 November 9, 2009

Reading: Target Skill - Compare and Contrast

• Review Plot
• Introduce comparing and contrasting - Comparing is finding how things are alike. Contrasting is finding how things are different.
• Genre Study - Understand characteristics of narrative nonfiction
• Review high-frequency word
• Read every night for 15 minutes. Reading practice helps increase fluency and comprehension. First grade goal is to be reading 60 words per minute by the end of first grade.

Practice the following words

• High-Frequency Words - animals - cold - fish - from - their - under - very - says - give - have - live
• Robust Vocabulary - adapt - inhabit - intriguing - nuzzled - pranced - raging
• Spelling Words - sat - dog - cost - milk - sock - street - thank - needed - resting - color - friend
• Sentence Dictation - The green frog jumped. Are you going to the meeting

Phonics

• Review contractions
• Review vowel-consant-e rule - A vowel followed by a consonant and silent e is long: code the vowel with a macron and cross out the silent e
• Introduce letter j and v
• Introduce the floss rule - When a one-syllable root word has a short vowel sound followed by the sound /f/, /l/, or /s/ those sounds are usually spelled ff, ll, or ss. We call words that follow this rule "floss words.

Math

• Review Place Value - (ones, tens, hundreds) You can review this skill by writing a number such as 123 and asking your child what digit is in each place
• Practice counting by 2's to 60
• Identify even and odd numbers to 20
• Order containers by capacity - Identify smallest to largest volume (cup, pint, quart, half gallon, gallon).

Writing

• Grammar - Names and Titles for People
• Writing interview questions
• Introduce writing a Friendly Letter

Social Studies

• The First Thanksgiving

Reminders

• Nov. 4th - Report Cards - Please send back the bottom part signed the next day. This lets me know you received the report card.
• Nov. 5th - Skate Night
• Nov. 7th - Fall Festival - 10:00 to 2:00
• Nov. 10th - Flagpole Ceremony at the front circle at 7:45 a.m.
• Nov. 11th - Veteran's Day - No School
• Nov. 23-27 - Thanksgiving Holidays - No School all week.