Announcements:
Tuesday, November 3: No school for students/ Teacher In-service
Remember to donate canned goods or other non-perishables for families in need
Tuesday, November 17: First Grade Thanksgiving Dinner- Families welcome
to share lunch
Dear Parents:
We hope you enjoyed our Readers' Theater and Benjamin Franklin Learning
Celebration. The children were very pleased with your coming to see them and
their work in the classroom. You get to hear children read each day at home,
but we hope this made you more aware of just how much else they are
accomplishing here at school. I know that some of you wanted to hear your own
children read more. We hope to give you another opportunity later in the
year. Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedules to share the
experience.
I will be sending home November homework calendar today. Besides the
additional math pages, you will also receive a page for you to fill out with
your child about how your family first came to America. I plan on them using
it later for making posters, but mostly for making connections in their heads
about what pilgrims are, not just "were" in American history. Thank you. If
the amount of homework seems too much for your child, please let me know. We
can adjust it.
Thank you again for all you do.
Happy November!
Mrs. Hatcher
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1st Grade Mathematics
Second Nine Weeks
Dear Parents:
The objectives listed below will be used to lead your child to mastery of the
concepts covered in the 2nd Nine Weeks Unit of study.
Geometry
2 and 3 Dimensional Figures
• Name
• Describe by shape, size, number of sides, and number of corners
• Draw
• Create, design and build
Classify Geometric Shapes
• Position
• Shape
• Size
• Number of sides
• Number of corners
Positional and Directional Relationships
• Near/far
• Up/down
• Left/right
Place Value
• Sets with concrete objects/manipulatives
• Base ten blocks
• Pictorial drawings
• Writing numbers
• Place value
• Number line
• Odd/Even
• Hundred Chart
Money
• Equivalent quantities of coins by making fair trades – pennies,
nickels, dimes, and quarters
• Count out combinations to less than a dollar
• Identify bills by names and values
• Fair trades of bills
Addition and Subtraction (Facts to 12)
• More than/less than
• Skip counting
• Break numbers apart
• Strategies for addition and subtraction
• Inverse relationship of addition and subtraction
• Word problems
Compare numbers
• Greater than
• Less than
• Equal to
Graphs
• Organize and record data using objects
• Interpret the data
Measurement
• Calendar
• Days of week
• Months in a year
Here are some suggestions as to what you can do at home to help your child:
• As you are driving from place to place or while shopping in stores
have your child find different shapes and tell you how they know what shapes
they are.
• While going down the road have your child read the numbers on the
signs. Then have them tell you if the numbers are even or odd.
Here is a game that you can play with your child to help them work on place
value:
Materials: Cards with the numbers 0-9 or a deck of playing cards.
Have you child turn over three cards
Use two of the cards at a time to make the highest number that he/she can.
Using the same three cards use two of the cards to make the lowest number
that he/she can.
Example: If they turn over 1, 7, and 3 they would make 73 and 13.
If you want to make this a competition you can both have three cards and see
who can make the highest number and then the lowest number.
Repeat several times.
Sincerely,
First Grade Language Arts Curriculum At A Glance – 2nd Nine Weeks
Writing
Writing Process
•Uses the Writing Process
•Pre-writes to generate content and ideas for writing
•Rereads to self
•Revises to add details
•Edits to make corrections
Writing Content
•Writes using self-selected ideas
•Writes text of appropriate length to address a topic
•Gives instructions
•Uses sequencing words, describes an appropriate sequence doing a
particular thing (e.g., first, then, next)
•Labels/identifies objects or places
•Demonstrates a growing awareness of author’s craft
•Writes clear, coherent text (communication)
•Describes an experience
•Matches picture to text
•Uses a variety of sources
Writing Conventions
•Prints legibly
•Uses spaces appropriately
•Prints first and last name
•Writes text that can be read by others
•Begins to write using common rules of spelling and high frequency
words
•Writes with correct subject-verb agreement
Concepts of Print
•Demonstrates an understanding that punctuation is used in all
written sentences
•Demonstrates an understanding that capitalization is used in all
written sentences
•Identifies beginning and ending of sentences and paragraphs
•Understands that there are correct spellings for words
Reading Strategies
•Reads/listens to a variety of texts
•Makes predictions using prior knowledge
•Answers (implicit, explicit, evaluative) questions about essential
narrative elements (e.g., beginning- middle-end; characters,
setting) of a read-aloud or independently read text
•Retell stories read independently
•Distinguishes fact from fiction
•Uses connections between texts and/or personal experiences
•Identifies literal (explicit) main idea and supporting details of
fictional text read or heard
•Integrates meaning , structure, and visual cues when readin
•Recognizes essential narrative features: character, setting within text
•self monitor
More concepts:
readstrategies
poetry
connection
main ideas / upporting details
long vowels
blending
synonums
antonyms
dictionary skills
