TCE First Grade 2019-2020: January 27

Calendar:

January 27th - Happy 100th day of school!!!!
January 28th - Spring Creek Fundraiser night
February 13th - Valentine's Day Party 2:00 - 3:00 All parents are welcome!!
February 14th - NO SCHOOL
February 17th - Weather Day (No school if we DO NOT use a weather day)
March 9th - 13th - NO SCHOOL Spring Break

Look At What We Will Be Learning Next Week:

Language Arts:

Spelling: We will learn how /ie/ and /igh/ can make the long /i/ sound.
Writer's Workshop: Our expository writing is AMAZING!!! We are working hard on adding details to our writing pieces.
Reader's Workshop: We will continue to study our next list of sight words and continue to work on fluency and comprehension when reading our leveled books.
Next week we will be taking the middle of the year MAP test for language arts.

Social Studies:
We will continue to learn how famous Americans in our history affect our lives today. We are so fortunate to have these wonderful examples of kindness, bravery, and perseverance in our American history!

Math:

We will continue to skip count to 120. We will begin to introduce coins and the value of each coin. We will discuss the importance of graphs and use data to create picture and bar-type graphs.

Please see the link to practice identifying coins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ARNqyQ0CuY

Please see the link to practice counting coins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbtmucV-U2c

Please see the link below to exercise while counting to 120 by 5s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKg0eu9_fsM

Please see the link below to count by 2s to 100 (1st grade's goal is to count to 120 by 2s)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wwydguSKOU

Science:
Learners will discuss how weather changes with the seasons. We will be tracking the weather and compare to other areas around the world.

Discussions At Home:
Please continue to discuss the importance of skip counting. We use skip counting for basic tasks such as telling the time or dealing with money. Activities such as sports, shopping or even counting large quantities are made easier by acquiring the ability to skip count. Practice skip counting at home with your child. Give your child pennies and have them skip count the value. It is so much fun and it will benefit your child.

Take a walk around the neighborhood, in the park, or at a local botanical garden. Ask your child to observe and describe the weather, temperature, and the changes they see in the trees, plants, and wildlife for the season and weather.

Listen to a sentence and find which word is the noun and which word is the verb. Can you make the sentence better by adding an adjective?

Don't forget to read to your child every night. There are so many great benefits to reading to your child!!!!