TCE First Grade 2019-2020: September 30th

Calendar:
October 1st: PTO Meeting 6-7
October 10th: End of 9 Weeks Spirit Assembly
October 11th - No school for learners - - Parent/Teacher Conferences
October 14th - No School (Columbus Day)
October 16th: Picture Retake
October 18th: Report Cards Go Home (sign and return)
October 18th: PTO Family Movie Night in the TCE Gym 6:00
October 21st - 25th: Red Ribbon Week
October 25th - Wacky Wednesday - (learners will go directly to the gym in the morning)

Look At What We Are Learning:

Language Arts:

In spelling, we will concentrate on the /sh/ and /th/ digraphs.
We are excited to begin Grammar Talks next week. During Grammar Talks, we will look at sentences to notice similarities and differences between sentences while studying punctuation, capital letters, parts of speech, grammar, etc. We have grammar notebooks that we will be using each day to record our learning. We can't wait!
During Reader's Workshop we are concentrating on staying focused when reading to build stamina. We have added leveled books, choice books, and sight words to our Reader's Workshop bags.

Social Studies:

Next week we will continue to discuss the election process as well as review community and global leaders.

Math:

Learners will continue to represent numbers in standard form, expanded form, word form, and base ten. Learners will also begin to draw out a number in more than one way.
For example, 19 = 1 ten 9 ones and 19 = 19 ones. Learners will also be using the place value to compare whole numbers using comparative language.

Please see the link below to practice making 10 at home.

Making 10 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73av5oijolU

Math songs about place value

Place value song with teen numbers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uedvwH6Ay18
Place value song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4FXl4zb3E4

Place value basketball game

https://blog.topmarks.co.uk/2018/01/new-game-place-value-basketball/

Ordering numbers

https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/countingCaterpillar/index.html

Science:
This week in science, we will looking at different liquids and observing their properties. We will be learning some new vocabulary such as transparent, opaque, and viscous to help us describe these liquids.

Discussions At Home:

We have been busy working on representing numbers. Ask your child all the ways they can represent a number.

In Other News:

This Fall we will be turning our very own TCE Garden into the TCE Pumpkin Patch! We are so excited about all of the wonderful learning activities and curriculum connections we will be able to make in our school garden! If you would like to help us turn our school garden into the TCE Pumpkin Patch, please consider donating a pumpkin (any size or type) to our garden! You can begin sending in pumpkins as soon as possible, and we will take them to the garden. You can also drop them off in the garden on your own!

Thank you so much!

Library: Please don't forget to bring back your library books each week. New books can only be checked out once the old books have been returned.

All first grade classes will be attending the library on Mondays beginning next week. ALL library books are due back to your homeroom on Monday. New books will not be able to be checked out until the previous week's books are returned.

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