Monte Vista Elementary

1 st grade Ms. Pryor

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2-23-15

LITERACY focus standards

MATH focus standard

CCSS RL.1.1 (and RI.1.1) Ask and answer

questions about key details in a text.

CCSS: Operations and Algebraic Thinking

This standard is applied to both literature and

informational texts.

Main Selection: A Southern Ranch

Genre: expository text
(Week 4.4)

Phonics skills:
long i vowel sound: ie and igh
pie, tie high, bright
(and ie says long e as in field)

CCSS 1.OA.1 Use addition and subtraction within 20

to solve word problems involving situations of adding
to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and
comparing, with unknowns in all positions.
When one of the addends is missing, strategies
include looking at it like a subtraction problem, using
a number line, or drawing a picture.
Thirteen cars are in the parking lot. Some more
cars come along, and now there are nineteen cars
in all. How many cars came along?

13 + ? = 19

silent consonants: kn and wr

knee, knock, wrench, write

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Our Dr. Seuss Celebration is Wednesday

from 12:00 to 1:30. Join us as we complete
activities based on a few of his books.
February book orders are due Thursday, 2/26.
You can order on-line or by check.
MVES PTO is having a contest collecting
BoxTops and milk caps. Thank you in advance
for collecting these items, and sending them
in by this Thursday, 2/26.
I will try to keep conferences running on time.
Please respect the conference time of other
families, and call ahead if there are changes.
There is a Leadership Assembly Thursday at
1:45 to encourage MVES 3rd, 4th, and 5th
graders in the upcoming PARCC testing.
The class needs glue stick donations.
No school on Friday, 2/27/2015.

Writing Focus Standard

CCSS: W.1.2 Write informative/explanatory texts in which

they name a topic, supply some facts about the topic, and provide
some sense of closure.

This week, we will discuss the difference between facts and

opinions to help with this writing format. We use an Are, Can,
Have organizer to plan the facts well use in writing.

Februarys Habit of the Month

Habit Seven:

Sharpen the Saw

Balance Feels Best

Words to practice:

eight

moon
above

touch
laugh