Posts: Week at a Glance (March 11-15)

3/1/2019 3:16 PM by stacey.waugh


 



Grade 1 Mrs. Waugh 



 



Week at a Glance (March 11-March 15)



 



 



 



 


 



Wednesday Night – Pack library books to be sent back Thursday. 



 



 



 



Nightly:



 



Read good-fit books/Raz-Kids.


Have your child provide a retell of
the main events in the story.


Practice Sight Words and Sound Teams


 


 



Literacy:



 



Words of the Week:  They, who,
but, two (please highlight on your high-frequency word list)



 



Reading:



 


 
Continue to practice sound teams and sound team words. A list of
words was sent home last week, and there are games posted on my teacher
page in previous Week’s at a Glance.
 


 


 
When your child reads, or you read to him/her, try to find sound
teams in words. Point out the sound team and have your child read the
word.
 


 



 



 



Word Family: please continue
to review all word families.



 



 



 



Writing: 



 


 
We are continuing to talk about sentence starters. Often times,
students tend to use the same words over and over when beginning sentences
(ie; “I went to the mall. I had fun. I bought a toy. Etc.) We
brainstormed a list of “Sentence Starters” to put up in the classroom for
student use during Writer’s Workshop. Using sequencing words such as;
first, next, then, after that, finally, etc., can make help make our
writing more fluent.
 


 



 


 


 
We will be talking about writing a lead/introduction (the first
sentence of a story). The job of a lead is to introduce what your story is
about and to “hook” the reader so they will WANT to read your story.)
 


 



 


 


 
One strategy we will work on is to begin a story with a question.
For example, instead of “I swam with dolphins” try
beginning with a question such as, “Did you ever go swimming with
dolphins?”    A question lead
for a story about making cookies might begin with
 
“Have you ever tasted
delicious chocolate chip cookies fresh out of the oven?”
 


 



 


 



Independent
Pieces



 



We will be working on an independent
piece of writing the next couple of weeks in which we are encouraging students
to choose a small moment/personal narrative and write lots of interesting/relevant
details to expand upon their chosen topic.



 



We will be reviewing our “Star
Writer’s” checklist and reminding students of the importance of: finger spaces
between words, using punctuation, using uppercase letters only when necessary,
sounding out unknown words, and using our word wall to spell sight words.


Students will be
encouraged to use “sentence stretchers” (and, because, with, etc.) and
“sentence starters” (First, Next, After that, etc.) to improve sentence
fluency. Word choice will also be assessed, as we have been focusing on using
fancy “million dollar” words over the past few weeks.


These pieces will be assessed using a
rubric and sent home with their report card.



 



 



 



Math:
breaking numbers apart



 


 
We
will be using manipulatives (counters, cubes, etc.) to explore that moving
a counter from 1 part to the other part does not change the whole thing.
 
For
example, if we have 8 counters in all and one of our parts has 5 counters
and the other has 3 counters, we can move 2 counters from the part of 3
over to the part of 5. The parts then change to 7 counters and 1 counter,
but we still have 8 as our “whole thing”.
 
Moving
parts around, as described above, allows students to see that 5 and 3 is
equal to 7 and 1 (5+3=7+1)
 


 


 
Decomposing
numbers (breaking numbers apart) as seen above, is also important because
it leads us into a new strategy we will be practicing called “making 10”. Students have already
discovered that adding numbers to 10 is easy! We have been looking at the
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