Newsletter October 30-Nov. 10, 2023

First Grade NewsLetter

October 30-Nov. 10, 2023

Language Arts

  •  Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.

  • Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

  • Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.

  • Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories.

  • Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

  • Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.

  • Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events

  • Distinguish long from short vowel sounds in spoken single-syllable words.

Math

  • 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, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

  • Solve word problems that call for addition of three whole numbers whose sum is less than or equal to 20, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

  • Organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories; ask and answer questions about the total number of data points, how many in each category, and how many more or less are in one category than in another.

Social Studies

  •   Justify why people work to earn money.

Science

  • Demonstrate an understanding of the patterns of weather by describing, recording, and analyzing weather data to answer questions about daily and seasonal weather patterns.

 

High Frequency Words

be          here          me          play          start          today           use          very

jump      right         say         their          walk         way             where      why

Reminders

  • Check book bags daily

  • Read with your child for 30 minutes nightly

  • Charge the computer nightly

  • Study high frequency words