Week 5

Dear 1C families,

I hope that you are all enjoying a relaxing R&R weekend! We are looking forward to a great four day week. We will begin math groups on Wednesday morning, and we will have an assembly on Friday for Grandparents day! Following the assembly, grandparents are welcome to come to our classroom from 8:40-9:00 for a special activity.

Please have your child bring in the French workbook, Les Loutics A1.1 by Hachette, if they have not done so already. Also, we will be reading Owl at Home by Arnold Lobel in a few weeks. Please have your child bring in their copy or please purchase a copy for them to use. We will need the book by Monday, Sept. 11. The ISBN is 978-0064440349.



Coming up this week:

Due to the holiday on Monday, we will only have 19 words this week for Spalding. There will be two old words “have” and “are”. These will help us to review jobs of silent final e and apply job 5 to a new word. Our Spelling Test will be on Friday as normal! Please note that the phonograms on the sheet going home every Monday are the phonograms we are testing on Fridays (on the back of the Spelling Test). Please have your child practice the sounds of these two phonograms each night! Please dictate the words as though it were a spelling test so that the words are practiced and memorized for all three columns.

Tuesday: today, look, did, like, six, boy, book, by, have, are

Wednesday: had, over, must, make, street, say, come, hand, ring

In Writing, our sentences this week come from Rumpelstiltskin.

 

Poem: We are beginning a new poem this week called “The Pasture” by Robert Frost. We will study stanza 1 this week, stanza 2 the following week, and practice the poem in its entirety and recite at the end of the 3^rd week. (Recitations on September 22^nd)

 

Idiom: Review of our first three idioms: Sour Grapes, Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing, and The Golden Rule.

 

In Literature, we are continuing to study stories from around the world, but this time we are comparing Cinderella stories! We will be reading the Western version that is very familiar and comparing it to the Egyptian version (Rhodopis). We will also read a story called “Billy Beg,” a Cinderella story with an interesting twist – a male main character!

 

In Math, we will finish our chapter on number stories by taking a test on Tuesday. Next, we will have our very first round of math centers on Wednesday. This will give us a chance to explore the concepts of addition that we have been learning in class by completing hands on activities and looking at numbers in new ways. Last, we will start a new chapter on addition facts this and practice completing various problems using number bonds and pictorial representations.

 

This week in Science we will continue to learn about habitats. We will learn about the plants and animals that live on meadows and prairies. We will also learn about the arctic habitat and compare animals that live in the arctic region to those in Antarctica.  

 

This week in Geography will we identify the Equator, Prime Meridian, and North and Southern Hemisphere. We will wrap up with a geography test on Friday.  Students will need to identify the 7 continents, 4 oceans and label a compass.  Students will also be responsible for identifying various landforms and bodies of water.