News for 1/6

• Happy New Year - I hope you had a wonderful, relaxing break. Looking forward to a successful 2020 in first grade! 
• January - March Volunteer Calendar Sign Up (note: time has been changed to AM)

• Raz Kids - You can access raz-kids through their website or app as another form of reading practice.

• Login: drau0

• student password: banana icon
• Scholastic Book Club - 
• Class Code: MHGW6
• January flyer to come

Save The Date:

• 1/20 - No School
• 1/23& 1/24 - Half days of school
• 2/13 - Valentine's Day Celebration (please note date change, I will be out of town on 2/14)
• 2/17-2/18 - No School, Mid Winter Break

Learning This Week:

Readers will...

• being their non-fiction reading unit
• studying pages to learn more
• guess what might comes next
• learn by chatting about what's happening
• reread to understand nonfiction books

Writers will...

• get ready to write nonfiction chapter books by teaching all about a topic
• tell information across their fingers, sketch, then write
• keep readers in mind, writing answers to their questions
• elaborate by writing twin sentences
• teach with pictures and words

Mathematicians will...

• learn teen addition strategies
• investigate doubles
• understand 10's and 1's
• integrate 10's and 1's
• group ones into 10's

In phonics we will...

• read carefully looking all the way across the word
• learn new snap words
• get to know some common word endings
• predict the right endings
• learn a rule about adding -ing to CVCE words

Scientists will...

• learn what an engineer is
• engineer a nature investigation

News for 12/16

News from Ms. Rau 

• First Grade Read In - on 12/19 Webber First Grade will participate in an hour long read-in in the cafeteria. Please bring at least 10 books from home AND a small blanket for your student to get cozy. They will spend half the read in time reading privately and half of the time reading and listening to a partner. Please NO STUFFED ANIMALS. 
• Polar Express Pajama Party - on 12/20 send your student to school in their pajamas. They may bring slippers in their backpack and a small blanket. Please NO STUFFED ANIMALS. 

• Raz Kids - You can access raz-kids through their website or app as another form of reading practice.

• Login: drau0

• student password: banana icon
• Scholastic Book Club - 
• Class Code: MHGW6
• January flyer to come
• Donations for our Polar Express Pajama Party Celebration

Save The Date:

• 12/19 - 1st Grade read in 
• 12/20 - Polar Express Pajama Party
• 12/20 - Half Day of School
• 12/23-1/3 No school, Winter Break

Learning This Week:

Readers will...

• read with expression
• show of their word detective skills
• flashlight read to increase stamina

Writers will...

• write a letter to a family member
• respond to a letter by answering questions
• write a letter to a specials teacher

Mathematicians will...

• explore teen numbers
• represent and compare numbers
• visualize teen addition
• learn teen addition strategies 

In phonics we will finish our word detectives unit

In social studies we will study Dia De Los Muertos and Diwali

We will skype a scientist who is a turkey expert. We will ask questions about animal adaptation, body parts, and survival !

News for 12/9

News from Ms. Rau 

• First Grade Read In - on 12/19 Webber First Grade will participate in an hour long read-in in the cafeteria. Please bring at least 10 books from home AND a blanket for your student to get cozy. They will spend half the read in time reading privately and half of the time reading and listening to a partner :)

• Raz Kids - You can access raz-kids through their website or app as another form of reading practice

• Login: drau0

• student password: banana icon
• Scholastic Book Club - 
• Class Code: MHGW6
• December/Holiday book order digital flyers
• order due 12/9 
• Donations for our Polar Express Pajama Party Celebration

Save The Date:

• 12/11 - HOLIDAY wacky wednesday
• 12/19 - 1st Grade read in 
• 12/20 - Polar Express Pajama Party
• 12/23-1/3 No school, Winter Break

Learning This Week:

Readers will...

• watch our for unusual words (contractions)
• watch our for compound words
• smooth our their reading
• reread to build meaning

Mathematicians will...

• play the number grabber game and math quilt game
• see math in the real world
• practice with story problems
• complete the unit 3 assessment

Writers will...

• begin to write letters
• practice appropriate punctuation and capitalization

In phonics students will...

• solve the case of words in disguise
• play contraction pick up
• solve the compound word puzzle
• solve the case of look alike words
• learn new sight words

In social studies students will study holidays celebrated around the world. 

Photos from the previous week:

Comparing baby animals to their parent animal based on traits.

 

Solving case #1: The case of the twin letters

Typing front covers to publish our how-to writing!