WELCOME TO FIRST GRADE!
Ms. Calianese
Reminders:
- Monday October 14th – No School!! (Columbus Day)
- Thursday October 17th – Progress Reports Sent Home! (inside brown envelopes)
- Friday October 18th – HSA Pumpkin Patch
- Thursday October 24th – 12:00 Dismissal!! (Parent Teacher Conferences: 1-3 & 5-7:30)
- Students are to bring in morning snack and lunch (or lunch order form with lunch money)
- Please check your child’s green homework book and classwork folder every night
- Please bring in all school supplies and five sharpened pencils everyday!
Specials:
Monday: Science lab and Music
Tuesday: Art and Spanish
Wednesday: Computers
Thursday: Gym (students are to come to school in their gym uniforms)
*Lesson Plans for the week of _10/14
SuperKids: Memory and Pattern Words for Unit 1: I, my, she, her, he, his/// dish, fish, wish, dash, crash,trash, lunch, punch, crunch,catch, match, patch)
- Monday: No School! (Enjoy the long weeked!!)
- Tuesday: Students will be split into groups completing small activities to build fluency and work on spelling. Students will also be allowed to read independently. I will be meeting with individual groups of to guide their reading and comprehension
- Wednesday: As a whole class will read “A Patch in a Pinch” and learn about a problem and solution plot as well as build our fluency as readers. We will discuss the theme of the story, kindness. **If time allows, we will construct our own problem and solution stories.
- Thursday: Students will answer questions based on the story we have read over the last two days as well as have a conversation about what synonyms are and review memory and pattern words.
- Friday: Students will have a 10-minute tuck in review day! This means that we will be reviewing the lessons we have learned throughout the week. We will be reviewing: sh, ch, tch, nouns, problem and solution, and synonyms. Each review will be a “game” to reinforce the reading skill.
Math: Sadlier Math
Chapter 2: More Addition Within 10
Chapter 2’s Essential Question: How can you add two or more numbers together?
- Monday: No School!!
- Tuesday: Students will be able to find an unknown addend in an addition equation. {Math Words: bar model, unknown addend}
- Wednesday: Students will complete a Chapter 2 Review Worksheet as a way to prepare for the Chapter 2 test.
- Thursday: Chapter 2 Test!!
- Friday: Students will participate in an interactive smart board game, Matika Worlds (vocabulary match, addition problems).
Religion: We Believe
Unit 1: Jesus Teaches Us About God’s Love
Chapter 5: Jesus Teaches Us About God’s Love
Students will be able to recount that many people wanted to follow Jesus, know that Jesus taught the Great Commandment, know that Jesus taught us to love God, ourselves, and others, and that Jesus taught us that all people are our neighbors.
Science: LabLearner
Students will begin a New Unit called “Weather Changes”. In this Unit students develop both their observational skills and their understanding of weather. This Learning Lab will promote students’ awareness of the types of weather that they encounter in their daily lives, building continuity between classroom Investigations and daily applications.
Investigation 4: Effects of the Wind
During Investigations Two and Three, students studied temperature and precipitation respectively, as two aspects of the weather. In Investigation Four, students will examine a final aspect of weather, wind. They will examine the effect that light and strong winds have on solids and liquids.
This Investigation is designed to:
- introduce students to the concept of wind
- provide students with an opportunity to use and operate an anemometer
- encourage students to realize that wind can blow from the directions of north, south, east, and west
- allow students to discover that wind has an effect on solids and liquids
- give students an opportunity to compare the effects of light and strong winds on solids and liquids
*Lesson plan subject to change
Please Remember to Sign Behavior Sheets to be returned to school the following day. 🙂
Homework 10/17:
Superkids: Worksheet
There is a Behavior Chart in your child’s take home folder. Students enter the the classroom each day starting on Riding a Wave. Students who receive Whale-y Awesome 3x in a week will earn a special prize from the prize box!