weekly Overview - Sept. 26-30

HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENING IN ROOM 14...SEPTEMBER 26-30

Dear Parents:

We are back to our regular dismissal schedule. Please return the fund-raiser information/donation as soon as possible. Thank you for attending parent conferences-I hope that the time was worth your while and gave you some valuable information about strengths and goals for your child.

LANGUAGE ARTS:

Phonograms:  We will learn one phonogram this week, ou (says ow, long o,  dotted o, short u).  There will be a phonogram quiz on Thursday.

mouth   out   loud   sound   your   dough   you   soup   touch   rough

Writing: We will continue to work on writing clear introduction sentences.  The students will be focusing on how to add connecting words to the “when”, “who”, “where” and “what” parts so that they go together and make sense. Wednesday’s homework will once again require students to come up with introduction sentences that are true (they must be experiences that they have already had-things like vacations, birthday parties, family visits, holidays, and play dates work well). Please help them with this homework so that their sentences make sense- but let them come up with the ideas. Also, the idea must be one that a whole story can be written about, not just one single event. The students will be using one of the ideas to write a story in a few weeks, so it must be something that they have experienced and remember well. They may repeat an idea from last week since we are working on practicing the structure of the introduction sentence.

Reading:  This week’s story is about a pet contest. There will be new vocabulary cards and a new word list for homework on Monday.

Spelling: Please note that word number 7 will be pronounced "hour" not "are".  This helps the children to distinguish in both spelling and meaning the difference between our and are.

1.  three     2.  four     3.  five     4.  seven     5.  nine

6.  out     7.  our     8.  your     9.  you     10.  soup

MATH: We will begin a new topic, “Understanding Subtraction”. We will focus on the idea of subtraction as adding with missing parts. For example, if a student knows how to figure out the missing part for 6 + ? = 10, then that student can know that 10-6=4. We will work on parts of 6, 7, 8, and 9, and subtraction sentences.

SOCIAL STUDIES: We will continue to discuss the focus question “Where do you live?”. We will explore how weather, location and the physical environment affect a people’s food, clothing, shelter, job, transportation and recreation.

SCIENCE: We will continue to explore the characteristics of the different animal types (mammal, reptile, amphibian, bird, fish). We may add in insects as well. We will discuss how an animal’s teeth help it to process the food that it eats.

*********************** SPECIAL  NOTES*************************

There will be no progress report this week. Please use your child’s work packet as a guide to challenges and strengths from the week’s topics.

Thursday, Sept. 29- Come out and see how your family can get involved in a new Multicultural Night event! This evening will be a night to learn about the event, which will take place in November. In past Multicultural Night’s we have focused on a variety of cultures around the world. This year’s event will focus on the various cultures of different US regions. This ties in nicely with our 1^st grade social studies topic for the week! Any family that attends this information night will earn 1 hour toward the 10 required volunteer hours.

Looking ahead—Friday, Oct. 7 - Movie Night at Millikin! Make and bring a boxcar for the Boxcar contest or just come to enjoy an evening of fun watching “How to Train a Dragon”.

Looking way ahead: October 17 –In-service Day- no school…October 22 – Harvest Festival-noon-3:00 pm… October 31- Halloween Parade – 8:45 am

Sincerely,

Mrs. Pierce