Posts: Grade 1 Week at a Glance (April 1-5)

3/29/2019 3:02 PM by stacey.waugh


 



Grade 1 Mrs. Waugh 



 



Week at a Glance (April 1-April 5)



 



 


 



 


 



Wednesday Night: Pack Library books
to be sent back Thursday.



 



 



 



Nightly: Read good-fit books
(have your child provide a retell of the main events in the story)


Practice
Sight Words and Sound Teams, Sight Words



 



 


 



Reading:  comprehension, expression and fluency



 



Please
continue to check for comprehension
by having your child answer questions about the stories he/she reads, as well
as retelling the most important events.


Make
sure your child is using punctuation to make their reading more fluent and expressive (ie; stopping for periods, pausing for commas, using
enthusiasm in their voice for exclamation marks, etc.)



 



 



 



This week’s
words: by,
were, she, me


 



 



Writing: mentors and
leads



 



We
will be looking at authors as mentors and how we can borrow their ideas for our
own stories.


We
are spending more time talking about how to have organized stories with a
beginning, middle and ending, and to add details to each part.


The
lead is the first sentence of a story. Its job is to hook the reader into
wanting to read the story and gives the reader an idea of what the story will
be about. We learned three interesting ways to write a good lead:



 



start with a
question


start with
talking/dialogue


start with an action
lead (I jumped when I heard we were going to the party!).



 



 



 



Math: Addition
& Subtraction to 12



 



 



 



Often
times, students can tell you a
strategy but they do not actually use
it. When you practice facts with your child he/she should no longer have to use fingers when adding or subtracting
1, 2 or 3 from a number. He/she should now be taking those jumps in his/her
head. For example, if you ask your child 7+3, make sure they are not putting up
7 fingers and then 3 more fingers. Instead, he/she should be saying “7” (without holding 7 fingers up) and taking the jumps in his/her
head or out loud “ 7….8, 9, 10”. This is called counting-on.


The
above strategy also holds true for subtracting. For example, for 9 – 2, your child should be taking the
jumps back in his/her head, saying”9… 8, 7”, without having to use
fingers.



 



 


 



Continue
to practice missing part number sentences such as: 9+__=10,


 

 9-__= 2, etc.



 



 


 



10
is an important benchmark number in math. If students are able to “make10”,
then working with and regrouping of higher numbers will be easier.  Therefore,
it is important to know “nice numbers” also known as the “friends of 10” (le; 2 + 8, 5 + 5, etc.). Practice “making-10” at
home by saying a number, such as 7, and having your child quickly tell you how
many more you need in order to “make 10” (he/she would reply “3”).  Practice a few each night so your child will
know these facts “in a snap”!



 



 


 



Math
games/videos to reinforce concepts at home:


http://www.coolmath-games.com/0-math-lines/10


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpoFxwKBwE8


 

Reminders/Important Dates:



 



Monday, April 1-Report cards
sent home. Doodle posted. Please reserve a block of time using your child’s
name.



 



Monday, April 1 – April 18 – Jump Rope for Heart



 



Tuesday, April 2-Friday, April 5-Book fair at
school-info. sent home Thursday, March 28



 



Thursday, April 4 – Parent
Teacher interviews (afternoon/evening)



 



Friday, April 5 – Parent
Teacher interviews (morning)/Professional Learning (PM) – No school for
students



 



Thursday, April
11- Easter Dinner-
Tickets will be on sale from March 25th to April 4th in the
cafeteria and on the Chartwells website. Please send a
lunch with your child if you are not purchasing a ticket next week as there
will not be anything else available in the cafeteria on April 11th.



 



Tuesday, April 16-coloured t
shirt activity



 



Friday,
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