We have been busy, busy, busy!
This week in first grade:
- we completed an author study on Steve Metzger books including the Silly Turkey party, The Great Turkey Rescue and The Great Turkey Race.
- we compared 2 of the books using a vienn diagram
- we completed a story map and made turkeys to put our maps on.
- we learned all about possessive nouns and verbs. We wrote turkey verb sentences.
This week is a short week. Your first grader will have normal homework on Monday, but will not have any guided reading homework over the break.
This week we will be finishing up a few assessments from the last few weeks, writing about what we are thankful for and Thanksgiving.
Have a wonderful and safe Holiday!!!
Happy Thanksgiving
Mrs.Rowlett
News from Miss Garcia
Dear 1st Grade Families,
As you are well aware, this week is a short one due to the Thanksgiving holiday! Although we will only be in school for 2 days this week, the fabulous first graders will be working hard in math.
This week will be starting our unit on geometry. Monday will focus on 2-dimensional shapes. Students will be learning about circles, squares, triangles, rectangles, trapezoids, parallelograms, pentagons, hexagons, and octagons. As we discuss the various 2-dimensional shapes students will be using the terms side, corner, and vertex.
On Tuesday students will be exploring 3-dimensional shapes. The 3-dimensional shapes will include sphere, cube, cone, cylinder, rectangular prism/solid, triangular prism/solid, and pyramid. Students will be using the terms edge, corner, vertex, and face to describe the 3-dimensional shapes.
Because of the short week students will only have homework on Monday.
Monday
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IXL K.1 Identify 2-Dimensional Shapes
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Tuesday
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No Homework (Enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday!!)
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Here’s wishing you all a safe and restful Thanksgiving filled with family fun!!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Bloomfield
and
Miss Garcia
