It is going to be a fun week in first grade! To celebrate Johnny Appleseed's birthday we will be doing many apple activities this week. We will be experimenting with different liquids to see which liquid helps to prevent sliced apples from browning. Also, we will be taste testing different kinds of apples (thanks to some very generous families!) and graphing our results. We will also incorporate some apple fun into our writing!
During our reading block we will be starting our second week in the Wonders series. This week we will be investigating and trying to answer the essential question, "What is it like where you live?" We will be reading many different books throughout the week to help us answer this question. Our phonics focus will be short i as in insect. Please be sure to work on identifying the short i sound with your kiddo this week. A quick idea to help with phonics-say one word that has a short i sound and one that does not have the short i sound such as, dog and dig. Then have your kiddo identify which word has the short i sound. Also, please be sure your kiddo is practicing reading and writing the high-frequency words.
During writing we will continue our personal narratives-a story that really happened to you. I have already seen such an improvement in the kiddo's writing this year!
In math, we will keep working on addition strategies. This week is all about making ten and doubles. We will incorporate lots of math songs and hands-on activities to master these skills. If you have a dice at home you can help your kiddo with both of these strategies. For making 10: roll a dice, have your kiddo say how many is needed to make 10. For example, the dice shows 3, your kiddo would say 7. Doubles: roll a dice and have your kiddo say the doubles fact. For example, the dice shows 4, your kiddo would say 4 + 4 = 8.
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| Make and Break |
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| Human number line! |
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| Rainbow Tens |
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