Academic Update/Reminders

--> Here is what we are learning next week:

Phonics: We continue Unit 9 in Phonics.  Unit 9 introduces the closed syllable  rule.  Closed syllables are words that have one vowel and must be closed in by consonants.  We continue to review our r controlled vowels:  ar, or, er, ir, and ur.  Our trick words that we will learn about this week are see, between and each.  We will also learn about vowels teams this week:  ee and ea.  
Reading: We will be reviewing our Fab 4!  Fab 4 is Predicting, Clarifying, Questioning and Summarizing.  We summarized with Winter's Gift this week.  We summarized using the following words:  Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then.  We will continue with Comparing and Contrasting Wake Up Groundhog and Go To Sleep Groundhog.  When we compare and contrast, we do this with books that have similarities and differences.  We will end the week with Sequencing There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Rose!

Math: We review subtraction facts this week.  We will learn about the new concepts of subtracting 2, tallying, counting by 5s and drawing pictures to solve problems.  We will have some fun Valentine's math stations throughout the week.  Be sure to look for pictures!

Writing: We have transitioned from storytelling to writing books on our expertise. This week we will be reviewing how to partner read and revise our pieces.  We will review other exemplar pieces of First Grade Students so that we can gain more knowledge on what our pieces should look like.  My goal is to have the students publish their final pieces by typing them in Computer class with Mrs. Allee!!

Social Studies/Science: We began graphing the weather this week and making predictions about weather.  We will do this for 6 weeks to see if the groundhog was correct about 6 more weeks of Winter.  

 

REMINDERS:

February 7-Me and My Special Guy Dance  ***Bring your color sheet*** 

This will get our class a party if you bring your color sheet!

February 9-12-Courtwarming Week-Will post schedule on blog and send home a sheet with all days

February 13-No School

February 12-Valentine’s Day Party

February 16-No School

February 20-PTO Movie Night

February 23-Last day to turn in Six Flags Reading 

February 26-Going to PAC to watch 2^nd Grade Play

February 27-120^th Day of School

Reading Challenge

I am challenging all of my students to read nightly.  The challenge is to read and take a picture of them reading in their favorite place!  They can bring the picture to school or you can email me the picture.  I will create a weekly collage of the students reading on my bulletin board.  I will take a picture of the bulletin board and post this on my blog weekly!  Please let me know if you need any help, books or anything!  Thank you!!