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Week of May 16, 2016
​We will go outside every day if it doesn't rain and the temperature is over 32 degrees.  Please make sure your child is dressed properly.

Field Trip:  1st Grade will go to the Aquarium on May 18, 2016.  Your child should bring a bagged lunch including a drink.  We will throw it all away so make sure it is disposable.
Spelling Words

​Group 1 and Group 2
oi  soil  boil   join   coin   oink
point   voice  boy  toy​


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​Challenge Word(s)  
against    heavy
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Reading Street:  We will continue Unit 5 this week.  Our big question is "What difference can a great idea make?  Our ​weekly question is "What can happen when someone has a new idea?"  Our story is called "The Stone Garden".
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​​Phonics/High Frequency words: We will practice vowel teams oi/oy as in toy and coin.  Our high frequency words are: goes, today, kinds, heavy, and against.

​​Amazing Words: accomplish, doubt and original  Ask your child what these words mean in relationship to new ideas such as Wii and hoverboards.

Comprehension Strategy:  ​​Our comprehension strategy is identifying the main idea in a story.  When you read, ask your child what the story is mainly about?

Writing:​​   This week we will continue practicing writing complete sentences.  Complete sentences start with a capital letter, has a subject and action and ends with a period.  We will work on adding adjectives to each sentence.
Reading Street
Go Math
​​We continue working on our final Chapter 11 on 3-dimensional shapes.  Students will have to identify cones, spheres, rectangular prisms (3-dimensional rectangles) and​​ cylinders.  The hardest part of this chapter, aside from the new vocabulary, is when students have to identify the flat face of a shape.  For example, a cube has a square as it's flat face.  A rectangular prism has a square and a rectangle as it's flat face.  A cone has a circle for its flat face and a cylinder has two circles for its flat face.  The other difficult part of this lesson is when students have to identify how many faces these shapes have.  For example, a cube has 6 faces.  Students always forget to count the bottom and/or the top.  Please check your child's homework for these areas.  You can help reinforce what we are teaching each day.  This is a short chapter and we will have our test on Chapter 11 Thursday, May 19th.  
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​Keep practicing reading numbers to 1​​​
20 and writing
​ numbers to 120, especially 100 - 120.​​  We tell students that 101 is the same as 1 hundred, 0 tens and 1 one.  113 is the same as 1 hundred, 1 ten and 3 ones.  They are practicing this during calendar math using straws.  When we get 10 straws we bundle them with a rubber band and call it 10.  When we get 10 bundles of 10 straws we will rubber band those and call them 1 hundred.  

Keep practicing math facts with your child.  We have flash cards if you need them.​​  We have four first grade students that have passed all their addition facts and are now working on subtraction.  One of these students is almost done passing all his subtraction facts.  Wow!

Homework – Week of 5/16/16

Monday -  DVD p251 oi, Math: p.219-220.

Tuesday –  Reading books/reading logs*  Math:  221-222

Wednesday – Math - Extra practice - study for test.

Thursday– Reading books/reading logs*. Math: None

​​Friday – None 

*Please note reading logs are part of your child’s reading homework Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Don't forget that school fees are due.​​ Your school fees are used for classroom supplies so please send them in as soon as possible.  Thank you!
Social Studies/Science/Technology
We will continue working on an animal research project this week.  Students will choose an animal to research that we will see at the aquarium.  Ask your child what animal they have chosen to research.

We will continue to use our Chrome books and go to the library on Friday.​​
Art, Gym, Music:

Next scheduled "Specials"
We are done with "Specials" for this school year.

Please have your child wear GYM SHOES on "Specials" days.
Library
All classes go to the Library on Friday.
Thursday,
​Remember to return your child's book on Thursday.