February 23-27

We've had a great week of learning and are ready to close out February with our best efforts.  Take a look at all we learned this week in first grade....

Reading

We began a new reading unit this week about character study.  We will be learning to...

• understand character's thoughts, feelings and motivations by inferring
• learn lessons from characters

We using this week to look at external qualities, facial expression, and to begin inferring mood and action by using familiar texts.

Question:  Describe the character Sloppy Joe.  Are you like or dislike this character?  In what ways?

Writing

This week in writing we continued with our opinion pieces.  We took time to learn more about...

• using support language to defend our choices (I agree/I disagree)
• how media can persuade audiences (commercials/posters)
• how to plan for an opinion piece
• structures of persuasive writing

Question:  How are you attempting to persuade your reader to agree with your opinion?

Math

Math focused on number patterns and addition.  We continued to introduce games to help us build number sense and fluency, these included...

• calculator challenge (1+1 digit to solve 2+1 digit problems)
• follow the pattern (noticing math fact patterns)
• PIG (building numbers to 100)
• subtraction from 49
• 2 digit plus multiples of 10 within 100

Question:  Which game was your favorite?  

Question:  How did this game help you add faster or make adding easier?

Social Studies

As we continue to learn about our country's symbols we explored...

• The Presidential Seal
• The National Rose
• Washington, D.C.
• President George Washington

Question:  What is the importance of each of these national symbols/people?

Upcoming Dates

2/26-Progress Reports Sent Home

3/4-Late Start

3/10-Book Fair Begins

3/11-Parent/Teacher Conferences

3/13-No School

3/16-Spring Break

3/23-School Resumes

3/27-Author Visit

4/2-Leader In Me Day

4/3-No School