First Grade News

Curriculum Highlights

April 08, 2013

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Math geometry Writing Persuasive writing Reading whats the lesson/ moral of the story? Word study number words

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News From Ms. Tindalls Class Parents, Please visit our Social Studies page on our blog for some topical adult information about our Earth: http://iskl1mt.blogspot.com/p/social-studies.html It would be great if you check out all of the resources but if you only watch one thing please make it The Story of Stuff. Its only 21 minutes and will give you a big picture view of where we are headed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLBE5QAYXp8 If you are yet to do so, please return the eco footprint homework to school electronically. It was sent by email March 22. If you missed it you can find it on our Weekly Newsletters page on our blog. http://iskl1mt.blogspot.com/ Students will be discussing this in class this week. *** Heads Up: Our final unit for the year is I Was, I Am, I Will Be. It is a history unit where children will be discovering their own personal timelines. Photos, memorabilia, stories from grandparents about how life was when they were young etc are all valuable resources. Start dusting off your old photo albums! More to come as we draw closer. In partnership, Ms. Tindall

Monday Reading: What is the important idea? What is the authors message? Why do you think she/he wrote this book? Word Study: What do these words have in common in meaning? Can you find connections to other words? Math: Making amounts with coins extra practice. Turn over 2 number cards (or roll a dice twice). Use the numerals to make the biggest 2 digit number you can. Make that number using coins. Repeat. Homelink 7.4 Tuesday Reading Word Study: Look carefully at these words two, twin, between, twinkle, twenty, twist How are they related in meaning? How are they related in spelling? Math: Homelink 7.5 Extra Practice: Grab mixed piles of coins and count them. Record the amount using dollar and cent notation.* Math challenge: Add some notes to the mix of coins. Wednesday Reading Math: Homelink 7.6 Challenge: Making change extra practice. You have $1.00. How much change would you get if you bought: a candy 29 cents an eraser 56 cents a pencil - 76 cents a sticker 92 cents a gum ball 7 cents (Do each problem separately ie 5 different answers) Thursday Reading Math: Tell an adult which way do the hands on the clock move. What do the large numbers on the inside of the clock face indicate? (the hours) What indicates the minutes? (the longer hand and the small marks around the outside of the clock) Where will the long hand point for quarter past, half past and quarter to times? Where will the long hand point for: 5 past, 20 past, 35 past, 20 to, 5 to the hour times? Homelink 7.7 Word Study: How are these words related in meaning/ spelling? Tricycle, tripod, triangle. Can you think of more? Friday Reading Poem Collection Reflect on your eco footprint/ how to reduce your impact on the earth plan. How is it going? What is working well? What can you improve on? Are there other things you want to include in your plan?

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twelve between trilogy tri tricycle tripod triathlon

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