This weekly newsletter from Ms. Pryor's 1st grade class at Monte Vista Elementary provides an overview of the upcoming week's lessons and activities before the Thanksgiving break. Literacy will focus on identifying themes in stories about Thanksgiving using evidence from the text. Math lessons will work on adding and subtracting multiples of 10. Students are assigned nightly reading and completing an activity calendar for homework over the break. The teacher wishes the families a happy Thanksgiving and notes they will return to phonics lessons and dictation tests after the holiday.
This weekly newsletter from Ms. Pryor's 1st grade class at Monte Vista Elementary provides an overview of the upcoming week's lessons and activities before the Thanksgiving break. Literacy will focus on identifying themes in stories about Thanksgiving using evidence from the text. Math lessons will work on adding and subtracting multiples of 10. Students are assigned nightly reading and completing an activity calendar for homework over the break. The teacher wishes the families a happy Thanksgiving and notes they will return to phonics lessons and dictation tests after the holiday.
This weekly newsletter from Ms. Pryor's 1st grade class at Monte Vista Elementary provides an overview of the upcoming week's lessons and activities before the Thanksgiving break. Literacy will focus on identifying themes in stories about Thanksgiving using evidence from the text. Math lessons will work on adding and subtracting multiples of 10. Students are assigned nightly reading and completing an activity calendar for homework over the break. The teacher wishes the families a happy Thanksgiving and notes they will return to phonics lessons and dictation tests after the holiday.
understanding of a storys central message or theme by using supporting details from the text.
CCSS: Numbers and Operations in Base Ten
Strategy: Students will use the sentence frames:
The theme of this text is _______________. I know this because __________________. We will focus on the themes: patience, acceptance, friendship, courage, and love.
1.NBT.C.5 Given a two-digit number, mentally find 10
more or 10 less than the number, without having to count; explain the reasoning used. 1.NBT.C.6 Subtract multiples of 10 in the range 1090 from multiples of 10 in the range 10-90 (positive or zero differences), using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used.
This week is short, so we will learn about
the Thanksgiving story using various texts.
Homework:
Nightly Reading (15 minutes or more)
no spelling homework this week Complete Novembers Activity Calendar
There will be another Flu Mist vaccine clinic on
Thursday, 12/04/14. Let me know if you need a new permission form. The food drive for Casa de Peregrinos is continuing through Tuesday, 11/25/14. Thank you for the donations so far. Tuesday is pajama day because we brought in so many canned goods!
May Your Family
Enjoy a Lovely Thanksgiving Holiday Together! (see you on Monday, 12/01/14)
Weekly Dictation Tests
Please continue to help your
child practice the weekly phonics skills. I sent home the Unit 3 resource page, and posted it on the website too. We will be on week 3.1 when we return from Thanksgiving Break.