CALENDAR EVENTS
2/1 Open House, 1:15 in Homeroom
2/4 ASP Specialty Classes Begin
2/5 Free Dress Day for 100% Annual Fund Participation
2/14 Red, White & Pink Accents ❤️!
2/19-23 Winter Break - School Closed
2/26 K-2 Chinese New Year Assembly
SAVE the DATE!
Readers Theatre Performances
2/4 ASP Specialty Classes Begin
2/5 Free Dress Day for 100% Annual Fund Participation
2/14 Red, White & Pink Accents ❤️!
2/19-23 Winter Break - School Closed
2/26 K-2 Chinese New Year Assembly
SAVE the DATE!
Feb. 1st - Open House Program, 1:15 - 2:15 in homeroom
Readers Theatre Performances
City & Suburb Models
Design Challenge Activity! Come ready to collaborate with your daughter ...
LANGUAGE ARTS
WRITING
SEL
Social Emotional Learning activities and discussions teach our students how to express, understand, and connect with self and others. This month's focus introduces Boundary Bubble lessons.
Girls will be bringing home a THINK card to keep at home. In class, we are giving THINK shout-outs for how classmates are "showing an act of kindness or action" to each other.
SCIENCE
MATH
Our math study continues with Addition and Subtraction Facts to 20. Girls will learning how doubles facts are helpful in solving addition and subtraction problems. In class, math games continue to reinforce the concepts of place value and addition with "10 More" and" Strategy Spin".
Please continue to play math card games at home to practice fact fluency: Partners to 10 and Two Card Draw!.
LANGUAGE ARTS
In language arts, the girls are busily learning word study, writing, and comprehension skills.
• We are introducing vowel teams: ai, ay, ee, ea, oi, oa, oe, oo, and adding the suffix: _ed. Vowel team letter sets will be sent home for additional practice.
• Our main reading selection, Needs Past and Present, reinforces comprehension strategies:
• We are introducing vowel teams: ai, ay, ee, ea, oi, oa, oe, oo, and adding the suffix: _ed. Vowel team letter sets will be sent home for additional practice.
• Our main reading selection, Needs Past and Present, reinforces comprehension strategies:
- Summarize
- Fix-it Up monitoring
- Compare and contrast nonfiction text
• Our unit closes with a fun Reader's Theatre, Hickory Dickory Dock (Go, Mouse, Go!)
- Fix-it Up monitoring
- Compare and contrast nonfiction text
• Our unit closes with a fun Reader's Theatre, Hickory Dickory Dock (Go, Mouse, Go!)
WRITING
For our next Writing Workshop unit, we will focus on writing opinions and reviews. Girls are starting with writing opinions about the collections they brought in from home. Mrs. Whatmore's 7th grade English class is partnering with first graders to complete planning sheets for writing reviews of favorite restaurants and books.
Mini lessons and anchor charts cover:
• Say Hello with a Catchy Introduction!
• Don't Forget to Say Goodbye!
SOCIAL STUDIES
Mini lessons and anchor charts cover:
• Say Hello with a Catchy Introduction!
• Don't Forget to Say Goodbye!
SOCIAL STUDIES
According to the lunar calendar, the Year of the Pig begins on February 5, 2019. This traditional two week celebration includes family gatherings, feasts, and gift giving. First graders will be making plum blossom scrolls and dragon masks to usher in the new year.
Mandarin Project with Ms. Ashley  |
Making the Pig's Body Additional Photos in the Mandarin Blog |
SELSocial Emotional Learning activities and discussions teach our students how to express, understand, and connect with self and others. This month's focus introduces Boundary Bubble lessons.
Girls will be bringing home a THINK card to keep at home. In class, we are giving THINK shout-outs for how classmates are "showing an act of kindness or action" to each other.
SCIENCE
Our new unit of study introduces the phenomenon of light. The girls will observe shadows created by natural and artificial light, and investigate reflections and how light behaves with opaque, translucent, and transparent objects.
Crosscutting concepts include:
• Patterns: observe similarities or differences about how eye positions in animals help them survive
• Cause and Effect: a mirror or flashlight causes the path of light to be redirected, reflected, etc.
• Systems and System Models: follow the path of a light beam using a flashlight and mirror
Crosscutting concepts include:
• Patterns: observe similarities or differences about how eye positions in animals help them survive
• Cause and Effect: a mirror or flashlight causes the path of light to be redirected, reflected, etc.
• Systems and System Models: follow the path of a light beam using a flashlight and mirror
MATH
Our math study continues with Addition and Subtraction Facts to 20. Girls will learning how doubles facts are helpful in solving addition and subtraction problems. In class, math games continue to reinforce the concepts of place value and addition with "10 More" and" Strategy Spin". Please continue to play math card games at home to practice fact fluency: Partners to 10 and Two Card Draw!.
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