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Week of February 29, 2016
​It is Dr' Seuss week!

Monday - Yertle the Turtle - wear blue
Tuesday - The Cat in the Hat - wear your favorite hat.
Wednesday - Wacky Wednesday - wearmismatched             clothes.​​​​
Thursday - Fox in Socks - wear your crazy socks.
Friday - Green Eggs & Ham - wear green.​I
Spelling Words

​Group 1 
that  chat   box   boxes
black  wacky  plots  fishing
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​​High Frequency Words
when    Sunday
​Challenge Word(s)  
Dr. Seuss
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​​Group 2 (short a, i, o, add short u)
hat   mat   box   fox   red  bed
pit    sit     up    cup   
Challenge word(sh) 
was   and
This week we will use Dr. Seuss stories to practice our phonics, high frequency words, comprehension strategies and writing.
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​​Phonics/High Frequency words: We will practice word families like at, it, ack, ox as in the words hat, mat, sit, fit, back, tack, box, boxes.  We will teach students to try and find chunks of sounds rather than sounding out each letter.
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This week we will read:
​​​Monday
​"Yertle the Turtle" and a biography of Dr. Seuss.
Tuesday​​
"The Cat in the Hat"​
Wednesday
​​"​Wacky Wednesday" including choosing a new wacky name for the day
Thursday
Fox in Socks ​​including students designing their own socks.
Friday
Green Eggs and Ham - including breakfast of the same.​​
Reading Street
Go Math
We will begin working on Chapter 7 this week:  Using Place Value to Compare Numbers.

Place value is the base of understanding math and this is a very important unit for our first graders.  Make sure they continue to do the practice homework each night.

Students will be practicing greater than and less than.  They will be asked to say a number is greater than or less than another number because there are more tens or more one.  For example, 37 is greater than 15 because 37 has three tens and 15 only has one ten.  Also, 48 is greater than 43 because the tens are the same but 48 has more ones than 43.  Then students will practice mentally adding 10 to a number.  For example, if we have 57 what would be ten more?​​
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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 got 10 bundles of 10 straws we banded them together and called them 1 hundred (100th day of school).  
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Keep practicing math facts with your child.  We have flash cards if you need them.​​
Homework – Week of 2/29/16

Monday -  Spelling Packet, Math: pg. 137-138.
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Tuesday –  Dr Seuss Biography.  
​Math: p. 139-140  
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Wednesday – Wacky Wednesday story
Study for spelling test. Math: p141-142
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Thursday– Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss and you.  Math: p.143-144

​​Friday – None   
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*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
This week we will study how matter changes by making Oobleck.  Oobleck is a non-Newtonian fluid.  It's a solid when force is applied and a liquid for there is no force.  Google "Ellen makes Oobleck with Steve Spangler" to see what it looks like.

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

Next scheduled "Specials"
Monday, March 15th - gym, art, music and technology for all first grade students.
Tuesday, March 16th - gym, art, music and technology for all first grade students.
Wednesday, March 17th - gym, art, music and technology for all first grade students.

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.